ALA/LITA Pre-Conference on DataGrid Technologies and Libraries

rmcdonal — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:19:28 -0500

Today is the last day for advance registration for an upcoming pre-conference that I am doing with colleagues from the University of California, San Diego, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the Texas Advanced Computer Center. See registration link and details below.

Datagrid Technologies and Libraries
Friday, June 27, 2008, 9:00 am- 5:00 pm
Anaheim, CA

This pre-conference will be a panel presentation featuring librarians and storage administrators from the UC San Diego Libraries, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the Texas Advanced Computer Center, that will cover various aspects of datagrid technologies for use in libraries. The group will cover the overall benefits of utilizing datagrid technologies with institutional repositories, digital libraries, and digital preservation systems within libraries and will look specifically at case studies of the UCSD Libraries and the SDSC based Chronopolis digital preservation data-grid. Most of the tools for these systems are open source and with very minimal instruction can become an important collaborative network for use with academic bandwidth such as the Internet2 Abilene network for sharing large collections of born-digital material and escaping proprietary hardware lock-in on large-scale or mass digitization initiatives.

Registration - http://www.ala.org/ala/eventsandconferencesb/annual/2008a/registration.cfm

Speakers:
Ardys Kozbial, UC San Diego Libraries
Declan Fleming, UC San Diego Libraries
David Minor, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Robert McDonald, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Chris Jordan, Grid Infrastructure Group, Texas Advanced Computing Center

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ALA/LITA Pre-Conference on DataGrid Technologies and Libraries