Below is the up-to-date list of organizations coming to the Sun PASIG meeting in San Francisco, October 7-9. We presently have 130 attendees and have representation from 22 state and national institutions. I will send out one more participating institution update prior to the event, but you can always see the up-to-date attendee list on the PASIG registration site; https://meeting-reg.com/sunpasig/.
The 'final' agenda follows and the abstracts that I have received are set out at bottom in chronological order.
Last week, the combined PASIG alias and website membership passed 1000! I want to share this success over the last 2 1/2 years with; 1) all the contributing speakers, 2) Mike Keller and Tom Cramer from Stanford and the other planning advisers, and 3) Peggy Taylor for handling all the preparations for our great events.
Europe
Aarhus State and University Library
CINES/CNRS
British Library
Dutch National Library (KB)
French National Library (BNF)
German National Library
Goettingen U.
National Library of Finland
National Library of Scotland
Oxford U.
Slovakian National Library
Southampton U.
Technical Information Center of Denmark
U. Strathclyde
UK Natural History Museum
N. America
U. Alberta
Boston Public Library
California Digital Library
Clemson U.
Columbia U.
Drexel U.
FCLA
George Washington U.
Georgia Tech
Getty Research Institute
Harvard U
Indiana U.
Internet Archive
Johns Hopkins U.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints FamilySearch
Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine
NYU
Northeastern U.
Oregon State U.
Penn State
Rutgers U.
San Diego Supercomputer (SDSC)
Southern Illinois U.
Stanford U.
Texas A&M
Teas Digital Library
U. Michigan
U. Minnesota
U. North Carolina
U. of Prince Edward Island
UC Berkeley
UCSD
UCSF
USC/USC Shoah Foundation Institute
U. Texas
Asia-Pacific/Mideast/Africa
Australian National U.
Australian National Data Service
Japanese National Institute of Informatics
National Library of Indonesia
New Zealand National Library
ONG Afrique Assistance
Queensland U.
Singapore National Library Board
U. Witwatersrand
Associations
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
DuraSpace
IMLS
JISC
SHAMAN
Partners/Consultants
Artefactual Systems Inc.
Atos Origin
Berkeley Electronic Press
Cloud Link Consulting
Digital Media Solutions
EDSI
Ex Libris
NueMeta LLC
PC Mall
Pillar Data Systems
Quadra Solutions
Tessella
Versatile Systems
VTLS
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PASIG Agenda as of Sept 14, Rev 9a
8:30am-9:00am Introduction to the PASIG - Art Pasquinelli, Education Market Strategist, Sun Microsystems
9:00am-9:15am Introduction to the Agenda - Michael Keller, University Librarian and Director of Academic Resources, Stanford U.
9:15am-9:35am DuraSpace: Open Technologies for Durable Digital Content - Sandy Payette, CEO, DuraSpace
9:35am-9:55am Islandora: Repository in a Box - Mark Leggott, University Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island
9:55am-10:15am Biodiversity Heritage Library Architecture with Fedora and DuraCloud - Adrian Smales, Head of IT, UK Natural History Museum
10:15am-10:35am Break
10:35am-10:55am VTLS Update on VITAL Institutional Repository - Vinod Chachra, President and CEO, VTLS Inc.
10:55am-11:15am Ten Years of Digital Preservation with EPrints - David Tarrant, Research Fellow and Developer, U. Southampton
11:15am-11:35am iRods: Policy Based Use of Cloud Storage - Reagan Moore, Director, DICE Center, U. North Carolina
11:35am-11:55am Trends Update - Lee Dirks, Director, Education and Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research
11:55am-12:15pm Storage Technology and Standards Trends - Raymond Clarke, Raymond Clarke, Enterprise Storage Specialist, Mark Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems
Lunch 12:15pm-1:20pm
1:20pm-1:45pm Sun Storage Technology - Raymond Clarke, Enterprise Storage Specialist, Sun Microsystems
1:45pm-2:05 Solution Reference Architectures - Keith Rajecki, Education Solutions Architect, Sun Microsystems
2:05pm-2:25 HPC Infrastructure Architectures - Philippe Trautmann, Global HPC Business Development Manager, Sun Microsystems
2:25pm-2:45pm Internet Archive Technical Overview - Kris Carpenter, Director, Web Group, The Internet Archive
2:45pm-3:05pm Oxford U. Update - Neil Jefferies, R&D Project Manager, SERS, Oxford U.
3:05pm-3:25pm Break
3:25pm-3:45pm French Public Information Library (BPI) Federated Search Implementation - Terry Reese, Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services, Oregon State U., Roger Essoh, Business Development Manager and Head of Innovation, ATOS Origin
3:45pm-4:05pm Stanford Digital Repository - Tom Cramer, Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services, Stanford U.
4:05pm-4:25pm The French National Library (BNF) SPAR Architecture Developments - Thomas Ledoux, Engineer, BNF
4:25pm-4:45pm From Ingest to Access: A Day in the Life of a HathiTrust Digital Object - Jeremy York, Project Librarian, U. Michigan
4:45pm-5:05pm SHAMAN - Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent Archiving - Ruben Riestra, SHAMAN Coordinator, Matthias Hemmje, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
5:05pm-5:15pm Summary - Michael Keller, Stanford
5:20pm-6:10pm Immersive Technologies: Project Wonderland Overview and Demo - Kevin Roebuck, Immersive Technologies Community Manager, Sun Microsystems (Optional Session)
6:30pm Reception at the Westin St. Francis (with vendor and project tables)
Thursday, October 8, 2009
8:45am-9:00am Recap - Michael Keller, Stanford
9:00am-9:20am Towards Physical and Digital Archive and Preservation at the U. of the Witwatersrand - Derek Keats, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Knowledge and Information Management, U. of the Witwatersrand
9:20am-9:40am National Library of New Zealand; Obsolescence, Risk Management, and Preservation Planning - Kevin De Vorsey, Preservation Analyst
9:40am-10:00am Family Search Overview, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Gary Wright, Preservation Product Manager, FamilySearch
10:05am-10:25am USC Shoah Foundation Architecture - Sam Gustman, CTO, USC Shoah Foundation
10:20am-10:40am Break
10:45am-11:05am Digital Submission System - Experiences from the Library of Congress - Carl Watts, Program Manager, PC Mall
11:05am-11:25am Next Generation Storage at Penn State - Mark Saussure, Director, Digital Library Infrastructure. Ben Grissinger, Storage Services Lead, Digital Library Technologies
11:25am-11:45am Permanent Objects, Evolving Services, and Disposable Systems: An Emergent Approach to Digital Curation Infrastructure - John Kunze, Preservation Technologist, California Digital Library
11:45am-12:05pm Improving Inter-Institutional Preservation - Tyler Walters, Associate Director, Technology & Resource Services, Georgia Institute of Technology, David Minor, Head of Curation Services, UCSD/SDSC
12:05pm-1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm-1:35pm Columbia U. Digital Library Architecture - Robert Cartolano, Director, Library IT Office, Columbia U.
1:35pm-1:55pm Southampton and Oxford Preservation Storage Network - David Tarrant, Research Fellow and Developer, Southampton U., Neil Jefferies, R&D Project Manager, SERS, Ben O'Steen, Oxford U.
1:55pm-2:15pm PASIG Repository Working Group Collaboration Directions - Tom Cramer, Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services, Stanford U., Neil Jefferies, R&D Project Manager, SERS, Oxford U.
2:15pm-2:35pm New Software for the Florida Digital Archive: DAITSS 2.0 Architectural Overview - Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director for Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation
2:35pm-2:55pm Fez Repository Community Update - Keith Webster, University Librarian and Director of Learning Services, U. Queensland
2:55pm-3:15pm Break
3:15pm-3:35pm Australian National Data Service (ANDS) Update - Robin Stanton, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Australian National U.
3:35pm-3:55pm Data-Intensive Environmental Research: Re-envisioning Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and Institutions - Patricia Cruse, Director Digital Preservation Program, John Kunze, Preservation Technologies Architect, California Digital Library
3:55pm-4:15pm Johns Hopkins U. eScience Directions - Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean of University Libraries, Johns Hopkins U.
4:15pm-4:55pm Public and Permanent Scientific Data - Michael Lesk, Professor, Rutgers U.
4:55pm-5:00pm Summary - Michael Keller, University Librarian and Director of Academic Resources, Stanford U.
6:30 Off-site Reception - Fort Mason
Friday, October 9, 2009
8:45am-9:30am Where Things Are Headed - Michael Keller, University Librarian and Director of Academic Resources, Stanford U.
9:30am-10:00am Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) - Summary Thoughts from the PASIG Meeting
10:00am-10:15am Working Groups Introduction
10:15am-11:45am Working Groups:
1. Islandora In-depth Demo and Discussion
2. Data Curation Working Group
3. Tessella SDB Discussion
4. Ex Libris Rosetta Overview and Discussion
5. Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM) and Infinite Archive System (IAS) Deep-Dive
6. PASIG Repository Working Group
11:45am-12:15pm Working Group Summaries and Going Forward Discussion
12:15pm - Meeting end.
1:30pm-3:00pm Taking the PASIG Forward: Tangible Action Plans (Optional: Open to All Who Want to Influence the PASIG Directions)
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SUBMITTED ABSTRACTS (Chronological Order)
DuraSpace: Open Technologies for Durable Digital Content
Sandy Payette, CEO, DuraSpace
The DuraSpace is a not-for-profit organization that is the home of two major open source repository platforms DSpace and Fedora. The organization is also developing a new cloud-based service known as DuraCloud. This presentation will provide an update on the latest developments in the repository platforms especially new integration possibilities. A preview of the Alpha version of DuraCloud will be provided as well a report of the pilot partners program funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) of the Library of Congress. Pilot partners will demonstrate the role of DuraCloud as a component within a broader digital preservation strategy.
Bio:
*Sandy Payette *is Chief Executive Officer of DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org <http://duraspace.org/>), a not-for-profit organization that provides leadership and innovation in open source technologies that support scientific, scholarly, and cultural communities. Sandy collaborates nationally and internationally to further the mission of DuraSpace to enable the sharing, preservation, and archiving of digital information. Sandy was the co-creator of the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (Fedora) at Cornell University’s Department of Computer Science (1998) and she later established the open source Fedora Repository Project (2001-present). Sandy was the Executive Director of the Fedora Commons not-for-profit organization, which joined with the DSpace Foundation in 2009 to form DuraSpace. Sandy was formerly a researcher in Computing and Information Science at Cornell where her work in digital libraries and digital preservation bridged research with practical applications as described in her various publications. Previously, Sandy spent ten years in industry leading information technology projects at Corning Incorporated, a Fortune 500 company. Her leadership led to early adoption of decision support systems, helping the company to forge new processes and techniques for strategic business analysis.
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Islandora: Repository in a Box
Mark Leggott, University Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island
The Islandora system combines the Drupal CMS with Fedora to provide one of the most modular and easy to install repositories available. The Islandora project will provide a host of "solutions packs" that provide repository systems in such areas as institutional repositories, digital collections, document management and research projects. This session will provide a brief overview.
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VTLS Update on VITAL Institutional Repository
Vinod Chachra, President and CEO, VTLS Inc.
VITAL is a product based on Fedora. The present version of VITAL (Release 4.0) runs on Fedora 3.1. This presentation will provide an update of the new features of Release 4.0 including a very granular access control module that has been implemented. It allows for restrictions to be placed on items and access privileges provided to users. Access or denial of access is determined by the intersection of these parameters.
In addition, over the last six months, VTLS has conducted extensive performance and scalability testing for the VITAL/Fedora solution. The test procedures and the findings from these tests will be presented. A summary of the user profiles of VITAL/FEDORA users will also be presented.
Dr. Vinod Chachra, Chairman and CEO of VTLS Inc., is an internationally recognized lecturer, consultant and innovator in the field of information system planning. Beginning in 1975, he designed the original library system that was responsible for the creation of VTLS Inc. - Visionary Technology in Library Solutions. VTLS is an international leader in integrated library automation, digital repositories, digital imaging services and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The company provides state-of-the-art library automation systems to more than 900 libraries worldwide.
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iRods: Policy Based Use of Cloud Storage
Professor Reagan Moore, Director, DICE CenterU. North Carolina
The integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) organizes distributed data into a sharable collection. The data may reside in cloud storage, in institutional repositories, in tape archives, in laptop file systems. We will demonstrate the enforcement of management policies across the multiple storage locations, access mechanisms ranging from web browsers to Fedora to Web-DAV to EnginFrame interfaces, and types of assertions that can be made on data in cloud storage.
Dr. Reagan W. Moore
Reagan Moore is a Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chief Scientist for Data Intensive Cyber Environments at the Renaissance Computing Institute, Director of the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center at UNC., and Principal Investigator on projects developing the integrated Rule Oriented Data System. He coordinates research efforts in development of data grids, digital libraries, and preservation environments. An ongoing research interest is use of data grid technology to automate execution of management policies and validate trustworthiness of repositories.
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Ten Years of Digital Preservation with EPrints
David Tarrant, Research Fellow and Developer, U. Southampton
2009 represents the 10th birthday of EPrints and, more importantly, the start of the second decade of EPrints. 10 years of digital preservation is a substantial amount of time and in this presentation we look back on some of the main successes as well as the key lessons learned during the development of the EPrints platform. Building on 10 years of experience allows us to move forward with confidence into new areas of research, adding to, enhancing and refining the EPrints platform. From the view point of digital preservation we look at the key decisions made during the development of EPrints and how these are still affecting the development of the platform even today.
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Storage Technology and Standards Trends
Raymond Clarke, Raymond Clarke, Enterprise Storage Specialist, Mark Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems
Ray and Mark will review industry storage technology trends including open storage directions. They will provide an overview of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) initiatives around the 100 Year Archive and XAM.
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Sun Technology Update
Keith Rajecki, Education Solutions Architect, Raymond Clarke, Enterprise Storage Specialist, Philippe Trautmann, Global HPC Business Development Manager, Sun Microsystems
This combined session will focus on 1) Sun technologies overview including the Storage Archive Manager (SAM) and Infinite Archive System (IAS), 2) reference solution architectures, 3) Sun open storage directions, and 4) infrastructures for large research dataset management.
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From Ingest to Access: A Day in the Life of a HathiTrust Digital Object
Jeremy York, Project Librarian, U. Michigan
HathiTrust was launched in October 2008 by twenty five institutional partners as a means of preserving and providing access to materials digitized in their large scale digitization programs (information, including a list of current partners, is available at www.hathitrust.org). This talk will explore the technology behind HathiTrust and the processes digital objects pass through as they are ingested into the repository, preserved, and delivered to end users.
Bio:
Jeremy York is a project librarian for HathiTrust Digital Library. He received a B.A. in history from Emory University in 2001, and an M.S.I. from the University of Michigan in 2008. York joined the HathiTrust team in July 2008, and has supported efforts in communication and development since that time. He has more than ten years of experience in libraries, working in areas of course reserves, archives and special collections, and information technology.
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French Public Information Library (BPI): Federated Search with LibraryFind (Oregon U.)
Roger Essoh, Atos Origin, Head of business development and innovation
Terry Reese, Oregon U., Head of digital production unit
The BPI federated search system combines LibraryFind (Ruby technology) with Atos Origin specific developments (using Agile SCRUM approach) to provide one of the most modular and innovative open source federated search solution. During the session we will present the project technical architecture, features and roadmap. We will provide feedback and best practices to implement a federated search system.
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Stanford Digital Repository
Tom Cramer, Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services, Stanford U.
The Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) is a "first generation" preservation repository that has been in production since 2006, and has by and large achieved its original goals. Based on the past several years of operational experience, a rapidly maturing digital ecosystem at Stanford, and the evolution of the preservation and archiving community's practices, the system is now being redesigned as a "2.0" repository. This presentation will cover both the successes and hard lessons learned over the past years; provide an overview of the new system architecture and the strategies behind it; and address the areas where the preservation and archiving community might better pool their efforts for the common good.
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SHAMAN - Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent Archiving - Ruben Riestra, SHAMAN Coordinator, Matthias Hemmje, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
The SHAMAN Integrated Project sets out a framework integrating advances in the data grid, digital library and persistent archives communities in order to create an innovative preservation environment which may be used to manage the storage, access, presentation, and manipulation of potentially any digital object over long periods of time.
To achieve this, SHAMAN will establish an Open Distributed Resource Management Infrastructure Framework enabling Grid-based Resource Integration, that is firmly grounded in a conceptual and technical reference architecture offering a more complete set of features supporting digital preservation than contemporary systems/approaches.
The talk will introduce the first instance of SHAMAN's Digital Preservation Reference Architecture and
Framework as a next-generation Digital Preservation Framework. SHAMAN will provide and trial this framework in three prototypical application prototypes.
These exemplary use cases will demonstrate the viability, advantages, and potential impacts of taking-up the new technology derived from SHAMAN. Therefore, the talk will also introduce an overview of
the three application trials.
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Immersive Technologies: Project Wonderland Overview and Demo
Kevin Roebuck, Immersive Technologies Community Manager, Sun Microsystems
Project Wonderland is a 100% Java open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and doc