[PADG:952] Digital Reality II: Preserving Our Electronic Heritage: Conference

["Robert Cunningham" <rcunningham@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Announcing:

Digital Reality II: Preserving Our Electronic Heritage

A conference cosponsored by the NELINET Preservation Advisory 
Committee, the John F. Kennedy Library, and the Northeast Document 
Conservation Center.
 
Location: John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Date: Monday, June 5, 2000

How can libraries, archives, and organizations cope with the ever-increasing 
amount of digital material? Will future generations be able to read our CD 
ROMs and computer files? Come hear what the experts pose as the barriers 
and solutions to our digital problems.

Speakers: 

Tim Berners-Lee, MIT, the inventor of the World Wide Web, 
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ 

Jeff Rothenberg, Rand Corporation, promoter of emulation as a digital 
preservation strategy, 
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/contents.html 

Fynnette Eaton, Smithsonian Institution, promoter of migration as a digital 
preservation strategy, http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem9922.html 

Paul Conway, Yale University, author of articles on digital preservation and 
digital imaging, http://www.library.yale.edu/preservation/pconway.htm 

Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group, an information architect and 
author of 14 books and over 180 articles on libraries, technology, publishing, 
and personal computing, http://home.att.net/~walt.crawford/  

Jan Merrill-Oldham, Harvard, consultant and author in preservation planning, 
management, and development, 
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/01.28/library.html 

In 1998 NELINET sponsored the first Digital Reality Conference attended 
by over 400 people. We heard about the new world of electronic 
information, electronic resources in the consortial environment, implications 
of digitization for preservation, and designing and planning electronic 
resources access. How far have we come? Do we have it all figured out or 
are we still looking for answers?

Mark your calendars now. Full program and registration information is 
posted on the NELINET web site, 
http://www.nelinet.net/conf/pres/pres00/digital.htm

For more information contact Robert Cunningham at NELINET, 
rcunningham@xxxxxxxxxxx or 1-800-NELINET.

For directions to the John F. Kennedy Library see: 
http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/