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The 2007 NHPRC Electronic Records Research Symposium
Oct. 10, 2007 - The National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Electronic Records Research Symposium will take place on November 16, 2007 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The keynote presenters are: Richard Marciano and Regan Moore. Marciano is the director of the Sustainable Archives & Library Technologies (SALT) Laboratory and Lead Scientist in the DICE group (Data Intensive Computing Environments) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is also an affiliated professor in the Urban Studies and Planning Program in the Division of Social Sciences and founding member of the Regional Workbench Consortium (RWBC) at UCSD. Moore is the director of Data Intensive Computing Environments group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. They will present, "The Evolution of Data Curation: Towards Policy-driven Collection Management"
The symposium will feature presentations by the 2006-2007 research fellows of the NHPRC's Electronic Records Research Fellowships program.
The fellows will discuss the results of their year-long research on topics related to electronic records:
- Daphne Arnaiz-DeLeon, Archives and Historical Services, New Mexico
State Records Center and Archives, will present the "Global XML
Data Model: New Mexico Public Records."
- Don Chalfant and Kathy Jordan, of The Library of Virginia, will discuss
"Developing Processing Practices and Workflows for Electronic Archival
Records."
- Erin O'Meara, of the University of Oregon Libraries, will present "A
Recordkeeping Framework for Social Scientists Conducting Data-Intensive Research."
- Kari Smith, University of Michigan School of Information, will present
"Implications of the Bioterrorism Act of 2002 on Electronic Record
Keeping in the Wine and Grape Industries."
In addition, William Wallach from the Bentley Library at the University of Michigan will discuss the Research Fellowship Program for the Study of Modern Archives (RFPSMA), administered by the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1983-1998, and Joan Krizack from Northeastern University will speak about the NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowships when they were centered in Boston, 2001-2004.
Dr. Paul Conway will conclude the symposium with an analysis of the accomplishments of the Fellows and the program from 2004 - 2006 while it has been hosted at SILS.
There is no fee for the symposium, which begins at 9:00 a.m., but it would assist in planning if attendees would register online at: http://sils.unc.edu/news/nhprc/