Upcoming Events

Hear members of our Cooperative speak about our work at the following upcoming events:

Stewardship of Digital Assets Workshop: September 18-19. Tacoma, WA
The Northeast Document Conservation Center, in conjunction with PALINET, SOLINET, Amigos Library Services, and OCLC Western Service Center, is pleased to host this two-day workshop focusing on sustaining digital collections.

Please contact our Program Manager if you are interested in learning more about our Cooperative and the services we offer.

Past Events

The following presentations have been made recently by members of our Cooperative. Where possible, links to presentation materials are provided.

ETD 2008 Distributed Digital Preservation Workshop: June 4, 2008. Aberdeen, Scotland.
This half-day workshop will provide participants wth information regarding participation in our Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive, which we are hosting in conjunction with the The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

Tyler Walters, "Enterprise Repositories and Federated Archives: The MetaArchive Approach to Distributed Digital Preservation" (Sun PASIG, Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, San Francisco, CA, 2009)

Stewardship of Digital Assets Workshop: May 14-15, 2008. Dallas, TX.
The Northeast Document Conservation Center, in conjunction with PALINET, SOLINET, Amigos Library Services, and OCLC Western Service Center, hosted a two-day workshop focusing on sustaining digital collections.

Katherine Skinner, "The MetaArchive Cooperative: A Collaborative Approach to Distributed Digital Preservation" (National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Digital Preservation Forum: Planning Today for Tomorrow's Resources, Washington D.C., 2008) Powerpoint Presentation

Tyler Walters, "Digital Sustainability Modeling: From Regional to International Perspectives" (U.S. Dept. of Education - Technical Innovation and Cooperation in Foreign Information Access meeting, hosted and sponsored by the Center for Research Libraries, 2009)

Gail McMillan, Martin Halbert, Aaron Trehub, "Distributed Digital Preservation Networks Across a Region, Across a State: Stretching LOCKSS beyond EJournals" (State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) Library Advisory Committee (LAC), Newport News, VA, 2008) Powerpoint Presentation segment 1, segment 2, and segment 3

Katherine Skinner, "Collaborative Adventures in Distributed Digital Preservation: The MetaArchive Cooperative and the Educopia Institute" (Archaeoinformatics Lecture Series, 2008) Powerpoint Presentation

Rachel Howard, "The MetaArchive Cooperative: A Distributed Digital Presentation Approach" (Wabash Valley Visions & Voices Board Meeting, Terre Haute, IN, 2008) Powerpoint Presentation

Martin Halbert, Katherine Skinner, Tyler Walters, "New Cooperative Strategies for Distributed Digital Preservation: MetaArchive and Educopia" (CNI Fall Task Force, Washington DC, 2007)

Katherine Skinner. "Collaborative Adventures: Promoting and Preserving External Partnerships" (NEDCC Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets Conference, 2007)

Martin Halbert, "Overview of Distributed Digital Preservation Networks" (Louisville, KY, 2007)

Delinda Buie and Rachel Howard, "The MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture: An Approach to Digital Preservation" (Midwest Archives Conference, Columbus, OH, 2007) Powerpoint Presentation

Robert McDonald and Tyler Walters, "Sustainability Models for Digital Preservation Federations" (DigCCurr 2007)

Robert McDonald and Tyler Walters, "MetaArchive: NDIIPP Partnerships" (iPRES 2006)

Martin Halbert, Gail McMillan, Tyler Walters, and Aaron Trehub, "MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture: A Practical, Working, and Replicable Approach to Preservation" (CNI 2006)

Delinda Buie and Carrie Daniels, "Keeping Digital Stuff Safe: Archiving Your Digital Information" (Breaking Down Barriers: Moving Forward Together Conference, Highland Hts., KY, 2006)

Tyler Walters, "The MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture: Building a Multi-institutional Digital Preservation Network" (National Conference on Digital Government Research, Atlanta, GA, 2005)

Gail McMillan, Catherine M. Jannik, and Robert H. McDonald, "A Practical, Working and Replicable Approach to ETD Preservation" (8th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Sydney, Australia, 2005)

Gail McMillan, Chuck Thomas, and Robert McDonald, "Collaborative Digital Preservation with LOCKSS" (TRLN Symposium, Chapel Hill, 2005)

Martin Halbert, "New Strategies for Long-Term Preservation Using LOCKSS" (ALA Annual, 2004)