2013 Private LOCKSS Networks

Community Meeting 

Montgomery, AL

Breaking News!!!!!!!

Unable to travel to Montgomery for the meeting - Thanks to Dr. Katherine Skinner at Educopia Institute you can join the meeting via WebEx -

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Meeting information - Thursday
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Topic: PLN 2013
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013
Time: 9:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Meeting Number: 621 839 031
Meeting Password: preservation

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To start or join the online meeting
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Go to https://educopia.webex.com/educopia/j.php?ED=268849622&UID=506404182&PW=NZDVjODg0ZWUw&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D

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Audio conference information
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US TOLL: 1-650-479-3207

Access code:621 839 031
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Meeting information - Friday
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Topic: PLN 2013 continued
Date: Friday, October 25, 2013
Time: 9:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
Meeting Number: 625 656 869
Meeting Password: preservation

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To start or join the online meeting
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Go to https://educopia.webex.com/educopia/j.php?ED=268850117&UID=506404182&PW=NMzk4YjU2Mzk4&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D

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Audio conference information
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US TOLL: 1-650-479-3207

Access code:625 656 869

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For assistance
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1. Go to https://educopia.webex.com/educopia/mc
2. On the left navigation bar, click "Support".
To add this meeting to your calendar program (for example Microsoft Outlook), click this link:
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Invitation

The Alabama Digital Preservation Network, together with the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries and the Alabama Department of Archives and History, invites members of  Private LOCKSS Networks to attend the 2013 community meeting in Montgomery, Alabama.   The meeting sessions will be held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History located in the heart of the capitol complex. As you can see from the program below, the themes for this year's meeting are technical innovation and international collaboration.  If you have questions about the sessions or the meeting in general, please contact Tracey Berezansky at tracey.berezansky@archives.alabama.gov or Aaron Trehub at trehuaj@auburn.edu.

Meeting Overview

Day 1: Thursday, October 24, 2013

9:30-10:00 Coffee, tea, and breakfast nibbles at ADAH

9:40-9:45 Welcome - Director of ADAH, Steve Murray

10:00-10:30: Welcome and introductions

10:30-11:30: Pecha-kucha: brief (5-8 minutes) reports from the PLNs 

11:30-12:30: LOCKSS overview and update by Vicky Reich and Tom Lipkis

12:30-1:30: Lunch

1:30-2:30: Panel 1: Mark Jordan on LOCKSS, CONTENTdm and Archivematica; Matt Schultz on BagIt; Jon Crabtree on DataVerse

2:30-3:30: Panel 2: Tobin Cataldo on data partitioning; Tom Wilson on LOCKSS-on-VM and new approaches to network storage

3:30-3:45: Break

3:45-5:00: Group Conversation: increasing network storage capacity; network price models, making participation in PLNs easy(er)

6:00-8:00: Informal dinner

Day 2: Friday, October 25, 2013

8:00-9:00: Housekeeping/breakfast

9:00-9:30: Synthesis from Day 1

9:30-10:30: Panel 3: Katherine Skinner and Tom Wilson on DPN and other cross-network initiatives (e.g. APTrust?)

10:30-10:45: Break

10:45-11:30: Conversation: technical innovation and tool development; cross-network initiatives

11:30-12:30: Panel 4: Matt Schultz (USA), Mark Jordan (Canada), and Anthony Leroy (Belgium) on international collaboration; Katherine Skinner and Aaron Trehub on Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II (ANADP II), Barcelona, Spain, November 18-20, 2013

12:30-1:30: Lunch

1:30-3:00: Wrap-up and synthesis; tentative date and place for next year’s meeting

Hotel Information

Event Hotel:   DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Montgomery Downtown 

Group Name:   Alabama Department of Archives and History

Group Code:  AST

The Doubletree is providing double rooms at a rate of $119 per night or king rooms at a rate of $129 per night.  To make reservations please call 334-245-2320 or register online at  http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/M/MGMMADT-AST-20131023/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG

Airports

Montgomery Regional Airport (MGM): (http://iflymontgomery.com/us/en/index.php)

Information on ground transportation services is available here: (http://iflymontgomery.com/us/en/transportation/index.php).

Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Internaltional Airport (BHM):  95 miles to Montgomery
http://www.flybirmingham.com/

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport:  150 miles to Montgomery
http://www.atlanta-airport.com/

 

Additional Info

Information and resources from previous years' PLN Community Meetings are available here:

http://educopia.org/past_events/PLN2010

http://educopia.org/past_events/PLN2011

http://plnwiki.lockss.org/wiki/index.php/PLN_Community_Meeting_2012

 

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