PASIG 2016

Registration is open for the next PASIG event, March 9-11, at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague.

Note that the attendee cost is 200€ until the end of January and 250€ February 1 on. A list of local hotels is available on the website.

This is a great opportunity for organizations setting up preservation repositories to collaborate and work directly with leaders in the field. The PASIG is focused on: 

1) addressing practical preservation questions,

2) hearing about best practices and new technologies from global experts,

3) investigating the convergence of on-premise architectures and the Cloud,

4) how to set up, initiate, and audit the metrics of a preservation project,

5) key global project updates, and

6) solution provider and end customer collaboration. PASIG is a highly collaborative and interactive forum and generally attracts a large contingent of new participants.

Session Overviews include:

• Digital Preservation Bootcamp - Training in concepts, issues, tools, strategies & approaches for Digital Preservation and Archiving.
• Open Preservation Foundation Workshop: veraPDF - definitive, open source PDF/A validation for digital preservationists
• PKX / Practitioners Knowledge Exchange: Case Studies in Preservation & Archiving Architectures and Operations
• Lightning Talks
• The Frontiers of Preservation - Discussions on the recent developments and challenges facing those who are tackling digital preservation.
• Industry Collaboration and Solution Vendor Presentations
• Project Updates and Digital Preservation Community Developments
• Hardening Existing Systems with Preservation Capabilities

To view the agenda and register, please go to  http://pasig.schk.sk/wordpress/. 

We would like to thank the sponsors: Arkivum, Cray, The Digital Preservation Network, Ex Libris, Oracle, Preservica, P&A Consult, and T-Systems.

Current participating/attending organizations include:

• Arkivum
• AVPreserve
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• Bibliotheque nationale de France
• Charles U., Prague
• CSC Finland
• Czech Library of the Academy of Sciences
• Czech National Library of Technology
• Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
• Digital Preservation Network (DPN)
• Ex Libris
• FIZ Karlsruhe
• Freiburg U.
• King's College London
• LOCKSS
• Masaryk U.
• Moravska Zemska Knihovna
• Moravian Library
• Museum of Modern Art
• Open Preservation Foundation
• Oracle
• Oxford U.
• P&A Consult
• Preservica
• Princeton U.
• Qatar National Library
• Slovak Chemistry Library
• Stanford U.
• T-Systems
• Tamco
• UC San Diego
• U. Hagen
• U. Hull
• U. Oklahoma