CURATEcamp

CURATEcamp AVpres 2013 will focus on the digital preservation & access needs of audiovisual collections. The event will take place on April 19th, 2013, from 12pm EST until the end of the day.  View the wiki page for more information: http://bit.ly/WhtgS1
 
Check it out! (Attend online! For free!)  You may register and propose topics here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dHl2...
 
This CURATEcamp is unique in that it will span three physical sites via Google Hangout which will also allow virtual attendees to participate. Brought to you by the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Open Source Committee & CURATEcamp!
 

There will be a CURATEcamp at DLF again this year!
 
Last year we had a theme designed to bring together Coders and Catalogers and it was a lot of fun.  This year we haven't picked a theme, so we may go with an open discussion.  If you feel strongly about a theme, or want to help run the camp, please let us know in the comments or mail declan at declan dot net.  Thanks!
 
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There's a new CURATEcamp in the works! From:

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/06/curatecamp-processing-p...

Alongside this year’s NDSA/NDIIPP conference, DigitalPreservation 2012, we are excited to try out another kind of meeting, an unconference. In conjunction with DigitalPreservation 2012 we are going to play host to a CurateCamp. For those unfamiliar with unconferences, the key idea is that the participants define the agenda and that there are no spectators, everyone who comes should plan on actively participating in and helping to lead discussions. Everybody who participates should come ready to work.

We are focusing this camp on the idea of processing, bringing together the computational sense of the word with the archival sense of it. We are particularly excited about bringing together archivists and curators with software developers and engineers to do some creative thinking and tinkering. You can read up on the topic below. We will be opening up registration for the camp, and posting information about where exactly in the DC metro area we will be hosting the event, but we wanted to make sure those interested could put it on their calendars now. The camp will be the last day of DigitalPreservation 2012, July 26th and it is being facilitated by myself and Leslie Johnston from the Library of Congress and Meg Phillips, Electronic Records Lifecycle Coordinator at the National Archives and Records Administration and Mark Matienzo, Digital Archivist at Yale University.

If you are interested in participating, or just have ideas for things you would love to see campers engage with, take a minute to post a comment about an idea you have for a session in the comments of this post. Consider posing some questions you would like the group to think about tackling in some of the sessions.

Processing Data/Processing Collections

Processing means different things to an archivist and a software developer. To the former, processing is about taking custody of collections, preserving context, and providing arrangement, description, and accessibility. Processing, in its analog archival sense, also includes a lot of preservation, (stabilization, preliminary conservation assessment, and the dreaded “re-housing”). To the latter, processing is about computer processing and has to do with how one automates a range of tasks through computation. When a cultural heritage organization’s work is organized around processing digital objects, these two notions of processing intermingle. This CurateCamp unconference is intended to put these two notions of processing together in whatever ways can be imagined by the curators, archivists, librarians, scholars, software developers, computer engineers, and others that attend.

Potential topics and considerations could include:

Automated inventorying and file characterization
Computational determination of hierarchical arrangement
Format validation & migrations
Automated metadata extraction
Potential roles for entity extraction in subject cataloging
Dynamically generated description
Malware scanning
Pattern & fuzzy searching for PII, SSNs, etc
Automated access restrictions
Generating visualizations and using them as access tools
Human computation’s potential role in cultural heritage collections
Machine learning and digital collections
Using name authority linked data
Processes for geo-refferencing
Potential uses of facial recognition tools for identifying individuals in collection images

There will be a one-day pre-conference CURATEcamp at this year's Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting. Registration is open now! & Space is limited. CURATEcamp SAA 2012 Pre-conference, Monday, August 6, San Diego, CA http://www2.archivists.org/conference/2012/san-diego WHEN: Monday, August 6th, 2012 (9am - 5pm) WHERE: Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA COST: $39 (SAA Members), $69 (Non-Members) in advance* *Regular rates apply after July 6. Space is limited to 40 registrants, so reserve your spot while you can: http://saa.archivists.org/4DCGI/events/eventdetail.html?Action=Events_De... NOTE that this is a different CURATEcamp from the event happening at GATECH!
 
EDIT 9/5/12
 
It's a wrap!  We exchanged ideas, shared best practices, and took notes at the first CURATEcamp to be held at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting. This was a successful event where archivists and technologists came together for a day-long discussion of data curation and digital archives.
 
For more details on the event, see the wiki: http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/CURATEcamp_SAA_2012
Notes (and a lot of good links) are available here: http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/CURATEcamp_SAA_2012_Notes

Registration for CURATEcamp GATEHC 2012 is still open and slots are filling up fast. Attendance this year is limited to 70, so get it while it's hot!

http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1081751

Dates: May 7 & 8
Location: Clough Commons, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
Lodging: http://curatecamp.org/content/lodging-curatecamp-2012
Price: $65 (breakfast & lunch provided)

CURATEcamp GATECH 2012 registration is open!

http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1081751

Join us May 7 & 8 in sunny Atlanta, GA for CURATEcamp in the Clough Commons at Georgia Tech.

The cost of registration (breakfast & lunch provided) is $65.

Attendance this year is limited to 70, so if you're interested in this unconference connecting practitioners of digital curation with technologists and software developers, register soon.

Thanks to our sponsors the Digital Library Federation (DLF), Penn State, and Georgia Tech Libraries!

Read more about the unconference at http://curatecamp.org/about

The conference hotel for CURATEcamp GATECH 2012 will be the Hampton Inn located at 244 North Avenue, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30313. To reserve your room, you may book it on the CURATEcamp page on the hotel website.

A block of rooms has been reserved from May 6, 2012 until May 9, 2012. The special room rate will be available until April 16th or until the group block is sold out, whichever comes first.

See you at the Hampton Inn Atlanta-Georgia Tech-Downtown in May! We hope you enjoy your stay and your group's event!

CURATEcamp GATECH 2012 will be held on May 7-8 at the Georgia Tech Library Clough Commons. Registration is capped at 70. More information about registration and lodging are forthcoming. Stay tuned!

Thanks for registering for CURATEcamp: Catalogers and Coders at DLF Fall Forum! We're looking forward to meeting with you all next Wednesday. We'll be meeting in Constellation C from 9:00AM – 5:00PM. (Lunch, if I recall correctly, is on your own.)

CURATEcamp: Catalogers and Coders is an opportunity for metadata specialists and technologists to engage in interactive problem solving and exploration of topics of joint interest, especially in the area of Linked Data. A primary goal is clear articulation of problems related to metadata within the library community, and the beginning of plans that can be taken back to home institutions to address them.

This event is being held under the CURATEcamp umbrella, and as such will be structured as an "unconference" with the agenda for the day being set by participants at the event.

The morning will be spent articulating common problems and setting the scope for future work. We'll start out the day by giving individual introductions and brief statements on metadata- or tool-oriented problems that we face regularly in our work lives. The afternoon will be spent in groups tackling individual problem statements, and taking the first steps towards planning for solutions.

What you can do between now and then is think about the issue(s) -- problems you encounter, tools you'd like to see tweaked, metadata consistency issues that keep you up at night, use cases, itches you'd like to see scratched -- you'll highlight during the morning session, and what you'd like to see folks discuss and work on throughout the day at the camp. We've set aside some wiki space for folks to toss up ideas.

I would also encourage you all to attend Suzanne Pilsk's and Robin Wendler's session on retooling LAM metadata tools, which is something of a sister to our proposal. (Though it may already be full, you might try to get on the waitlist.) Comment here to "register."

If you have any questions about the event, feel free to email me and I will forward to my co-planners. Or find us at DLF on Monday and Tuesday -- maybe we'll run into each other at a pub.

See you all in Baltimore!

-Mike, on behalf of co-planners Diane Hillmann, Jenn Riley, and Declan Fleming

CURATEcamp "Catalogers & Coders" will be taking place at DLF on Wednesday, November 2nd this year. It's DLF's Developers Roundtable event.

Here's the proposal that just got accepted by DLF:

Title
Developers’ Roundtable: CURATEcamp: Catalogers & Coders

Session leader
Declan Fleming, Mike Giarlo, Diane Hillmann, Jon Phipps, Jenn Riley

Session genre
Developers’ Roundtable / Working Session

Proposal description (max: 400 words)

“The Developers’ Roundtable is intended for technology developers, technical managers, or those representatives that have influence in technical decision-making at their institutions. This gathering provides dedicated time at the DLF Forum to meet together to share problems, ideas, and solutions of a technical nature.” -- http://www.diglib.org/community/groups/developers/

CURATEcamp is a series of unconference-style events focused on connecting practitioners and technologists interested in digital curation. One of CURATEcamp's strengths is that it brings a broad audience together: librarians and archivists; technologists and catalogers; library administrators and systems administrators; software developers, users, architects, and designers.

CURATEcamp: Catalogers & Coders is DLF Fall Forum’s Developers’ Roundtable, focusing on connecting professional catalogers and library software developers. The roles played by catalogers and developers lie on the same continuum, and yet these two groups do not necessarily have many opportunities to engage one another in the workplace.

This camp aims to:
Expose common pain points from both communities
Identify opportunities for coder/cataloger collaboration
Find practical next steps to further LODLAM discussion
Apply LODLAM work in both professional contexts

As an unconference, the attendees determine the entirety of the agenda; one of the Camp model’s features is the serendipity and opportunity presented by an open agenda and format. Ideas will be solicited from attendees in advance and stored on the CURATEcamp wiki. Session leaders will seed the wiki page with examples. See: http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/CURATEcamp_DLF_Ideas
Draft program

Morning
“Lightning“ session where each attendee gets 3-5 minutes to introduce him/herself and illuminate a relevant professional problem; attendees will be encouraged to develop a pitch in advance. This session will be followed by voting on the problems raised by the group.

Break

Pre-lunch
Regroup around selected problems, build groups to work on them, set scope for work.

Lunch
Encourage groups to lunch together

Afternoon
Groups develop use cases, proposals for ways to solve the problem, and/or a pitch for applying institutional effort to the problem. Focus on making the proposals understandable and attractive to funders and those making decisions on developer allocation. Depending on the group’s starting point, they may also use this time to start working through solutions (writing code, posting documentation, etc.) Participants in each group may then bring the use cases, proposals, pitches, documentation, or code back to their home institutions to apply them locally.

Post-Afternoon
Encourage groups to drink and dine together

Abstract (max: 100 words)

CURATEcamp: Catalogers & Coders is DLF Fall Forum’s Developers’ Roundtable, focusing on connecting professional catalogers and library software developers. The roles played by catalogers and developers lie on the same continuum and yet these two groups do not necessarily have many opportunities to engage one another in the workplace. As an unconference, the attendees determine the entirety of the agenda; one of the Camp’s features is serendipitous engagement.

Aims:
Expose common pain points from both communities
Identify opportunities for coder/cataloger collaboration
Find practical next steps to further LODLAM discussion
Apply LODLAM work in both professional contexts