Please join students, faculty and staff from across campus at the H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports for Mapping the Digital Landscape at the University of Texas at Austin: A Campus Digital Preservation Symposium.

This symposium is an opportunity to discuss the value of our digital footprints and how we might mindfully collect material for personal use and also contribute to the scholarly record. It is intended to locate possible overlaps, intersections, and partnerships that could help us  think about digital preservation as a university-wide challenge and perhaps even shared digital infrastructure.

Digital Preservation is about:

-ensuring that digital information remains accessible and usable;

-planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods; and

-confronting challenges of media failure and technological change.

Agenda for the Symposium

Overview: Mapping the Digital Landscape at the University of Texas & Locating the UT-Digipres Working Group in the Digital Landscape

Lightning Talks: staff, faculty, and students will present lightning talks on their work and research on digital archives and libraries, on digital assets management projects, and on supporting digital scholarship. Some of our colleagues have already signed up:

Ryan Steans - DuraCloud @TDL: Cloud-based Digital Preservation

Theresa Polk - Post-Custodial Digital Archival Development at LLILAS Benson

Pat Galloway - Experience with DSpace 5x and Spring 2015 Archiving Projects

Susan Kung - AILLA Project: Moving from a relational database to Fedora/Islandora

Maryrose Hightower-Coyle - Preservation in the Brave New Administrative World

Maria Esteva - Preserving Scientific Data in the Context of Evolving Research Projects

Discussion: Join a diverse community of colleagues across campus to talk about finding intersections and looking towards a campus digital preservation infrastructure.

Please use this  sign-up sheet to RSVP and sign up to give a lightning talk, if you want to talk about  a completed project, a project currently underway, or a project you just started thinking about AND its contribution to digital preservation.

Help to shape the digital legacy of the University of Texas!