APSR Forum: Long Term Repositories - program available

The program for Long-term Repositories is now available and promises a full and interesting couple of days.
The list of speakers is a long one, with overseas guests including Rebecca Guenther from the Library of Congress, Robin Dale from RLG, Ron Jantz from the Fedora Preservation Working Group, Mat Black from the National Library of New Zealand and Deborah Woodyard-Robinson, a consultant in New Zealand. Other speakers include Chris Blackall, Markus Buchhorn and Scott Yeadon from the Australian National University, Bronwyn Lee and Gerard Clifton from the National Library of Australia, Jane Hunter and Christiaan Kortekaas from the University of Queensland, Stuart Barr from GeoScience Australia, Stephen Ellis from the National Archives of Australia, Sophie Holloway from the Australian Social Science Data Archive and Jan Lavelle from the State Library of Tasmania.

APSR is now taking registrations for the Long-term Repositories: Taking the Shock out of the Future which will be held on August 31 and September 1, 2006, at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. This two-day forum on PREMIS Preservation Metadata and the Trusted Digital Repositories Methodology is designed to meet that need and will be presented by APSR in association with the National LIbrary of Australia. Day One will be a practical exploration of the issues associated with the implementation of a preservation metadata scheme based on the PREMIS model and Day Two will consider the RLG-NARA Audit Checklist for Certifying Digital Repositories.

Further details and a registration form can be found at http://www.apsr.edu.au/longterm/.
The program is available at http://www.apsr.edu.au/longterm/program.pdf.
Margaret Henty
National Services Program Coordinator
Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories
W. K. Hancock Building (#43)
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT, 0200, AUSTRALIA
phone 61 2 6125 7685 mob. 0404 878 442
fax 61 2 6125 5526
http://www.apsr.edu.au