September  2004 Edition

Focus
The persistent identification of electronic resources can play a vital role in enabling long-term access and re-use and can positively impact on an objectís authenticity. This seminar aims to provide an overview of current activity in the field of persistent identifiers and an understanding of the various persistent identification strategies being used and developed. Individual experiences with persistent identifiers will be explored through presentations from the library community, the higher and further education community, the scientific community and the publishing community. The seminar will also provide an update from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) working group on persistent identifiers.

Who will benefit from attending?
The seminar will bring together a wide range of participants from a variety of sectors from all over Europe. This training seminar will benefit anyone who creates or manages access to digital resourcesóincluding librarians, archivists, scientists, publishers and staff from higher and further education and government institutions.

Dates
Thursday, June 17 and Friday, June 18, 2004

Venue
The seminar will be held at the Boole Lecture Theatre, University College Cork. More information about the UCC is available on their website. ERPANET is extremely grateful to the University College Cork for providing the venue for this training event.

Registration
To register for this conference, please visit <www.erpanet.org> and click on the "what's new" section. The registration fee is 100 Euros.

Further information
Abstracts, papers and the seminar report will be accessible via the ERPANET site following the event.

The National Archives in co-operation with the InterPARES 2 project, is pleased to invite you to this half day seminar. The seminar will deal with e-government and electronic records  management, the use of XML as a preservation tool and the preservation of websites. 

Further information and details can be obtained from the Electronic Records Unit, National Archives: (e) <eru@nationalarchives.ie> or (t) 01-4072308.

Refreshments will be served following the seminar.

The presentations from this seminar are available here.

The Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(Faculty of Humanities, the Queen's University of Belfast)

Location:

The School of Music, the Queen's University of Belfast (Botanic entrance)

Date:

Tuesday, 14 September 2004

Registration Details:

Speakers may attend for no fee; others intending to attend the full day should register their name with Sarah McCleave <s.mccleave@qub.ac.uk> by 9 September in order to pay £10 (please note currency) at the door. Late registrants must pay £12. As the fees cover catering costs, early registration is appreciated.

To register online for this conference, please visit <www.xmlsummerschool.com> and click on the "XML Digital Archiving Services II" section. Registration is free.

Changing computer technologies create ever more valuable and diverse digital information. These same changes also put the data they create at high risk of loss as technologies successively become obsolete. This has created an increasing need for and interest in web-based digital archiving systems. Content intelligence can be enabled through metatags, to allow for regulatory standards compliance as well as more efficient categorisation, search and delivery. This seminar will show that by using XML for digital archiving your information assets will be accessible in a format which is useful, flexible, and easy to manage.

Case Study - Pan European Electronic Safe (PEELS)
This day is being presented as part of the EU-funded PEELS project, which aims to validate the market for a Pan European Electronic Safe. It is free to attend for anyone wanting to learn about how XML and digital signature technology can be used to implement a digital archiving service. Attendees will hear how such a service is being offered to the market by the PEELS consortium members and will have the opportunity to assess whether their organisation could become involved in PEELS, to help shape the future of digital archiving services in Europe.

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