Location: The National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
Date: May 23-25, 2011

Conference Description (downloadable pdf)

The “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation” conference will provide a forum in which national preservation programs may share information with each other in order to begin building strategic international collaborations to support the preservation of our collective cultural memory.

A number of countries have embarked on ambitious digital preservation programs at the local and/or national level. The “Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation” conference will enable such programs to begin exploring how to create and sustain international collaborations to support the preservation of our collective cultural memory.

The outcomes for the event will be a strategic alignment of national approaches to enable new forms of international collaboration and an edited volume that documents an action plan for building collaboration among interested digital preservation initiatives.

Conference Agenda (downloadable pdf)

May 23

10:00 - 13:00 Pre-Conference Sign-In (for registered attendees)

11:30-12:30 National Library Tour (PLEASE REGISTER)

13:00 - 13:30 Welcome and Introduction

13:30 - 14:30 Keynote Address

• Laura Campbell (U.S. Library of Congress)

14:30 - 16:00 Panel 1: Technical Alignment

• Chair, Michael Seadle (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

16:00 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 18:00 Panel 2: Organizational Alignment

• Chair, Inge Angevaare (Netherlands Coalition for Digital Preservation)

19:00 - 21:00 Reception, Brotherhood of Black Heads Hall

May 24

08:00 - 08:30 Welcome and coffee

08:30 - 09:30 Keynote Address

• Gunnar Sahlin (National Library of Sweden)

09:30 - 11:00 Panel 3: Standards Alignment

• Chair, Raivo Ruusalepp (Tallinn University)

11:00 - 11:30 Break

11:30 - 12:30 Breakout Sessions for panels 1 & 2

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Panel 4: Legal Alignment

• Chair, Adrienne Muir (Loughborough University)

15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 16:30 Breakout Sessions for panels 3 & 4

16:30 - 18:00 Breakout reports and synthesis (5 min plus Q&A for each; discussion)

18:00 - 19:00 National Library Tour (PLEASE REGISTER)

May 25

08:00 - 08:30 Welcome and coffee

08:30 - 10:00 Panel 5: Education Alignment

• Chair, Joy Davidson (HATII, University of Glasgow)

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Panel 6: Economic Alignment

• Chair, Maurizio Lunghi (Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale)

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:00 Breakout Sessions for panels 5 & 6

14:00 - 15:00 Breakout reports and synthesis (5 min plus Q&A for each; discussion)

15:00 - 15:30 Synthesis/Closing Remarks

• Cliff Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information)

17:00 - 19:00 Old Town Walking Tour (EUR 10 - PLEASE REGISTER)