The First Digital Curation Institute Conference

The Digital Curation Institute at the University of Toronto's iSchool provides a rich, interdisciplinary environment for investigating principles and theory building related to the creation, management, use, interpretation and preservation of digital resources; conducting research on digital curation issues; and developing technologies and tools to support best practice in this area. The DCI promotes innovative multi-faceted research projects that involve collaboration among faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers both national, and internationality. It encourages research that utilize multi-methods approaches from the fields of critical information studies; library and information science; archives and record management; information systems, media, and design; cultural heritage; museum studies, knowledge management and information management.

The key objectives of this first Digital Curation conference (http://dci.ischool.utoronto.ca/index.html) are to promote greater understanding of the issues of digital curation, digital preservation, digital libararies, advance research on digital curation, and defining the Digital Curation Institute's research agenda.

Topics include: approaches for digital curation research; modeling for digital curation; risk, trust and certification; curating creative objects, digital libraries and digital repositories; digital curation and government records; experimentation.

Speakers:
Brian Cantwell Smith (iSchool, University of Toronto)
Costis Dallas (iDigital Curation Unit, Athena Research Centre)
Rhea Devakos (University of Toronto)
Fiorella Foscarini, (iSchool, University of Toronto)
Ross Harvey (Simmons GSLIS)
Hans Hofman (Nationaal Archief Netherlands)
Steve Hokema (iSchool, University of Toronto)
John MacDonald (information management consultant and educator)
Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology)
Seamus Ross (iSchool, University of Toronto)
Raivo Ruusalepp (Estonia Business Archives)
Tom Hickerson (University of Calgary)
Anne Van Camp (Smithsonian Institute)

Registration fees include catered lunches and a wine and cheese reception.

$150 General public
$100 University of Toronto faculty and staff
$50 Students
Registering on the day of the event: $200