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Working Digital Assets: San Francisco: Monday, September 24, 2007


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By jennifer trant - Posted on 11 August 2007

This day-long symposium will explore the current state of managing,
sharing, and preserving digital assets.

Date: Monday, September 24, 2007

Location: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Cost: No registration fee

Who should attend? Museum, library, and archive professionals;
students; anyone who produces, uses, and/or manages digital assets.

Join us in considering questions about digital assets such as:

  • Can we plan for 50 years and 5 years at the same time?
  • What makes a 'quality, useful, and/or trustworthy' asset?
  • What are the hot-button rights issues?
  • Where are the innovative, creative, and/or resourceful solutions?
  • How can we stay ahead of the technological curve(s)?

Partial list of speakers:

  • Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies LLC
  • Patricia Cruse, California Digital Library
  • Gary Fong, Genesis Photo Agency
  • Hannah Frost, Stanford University Libraries
  • Sue Grinols, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
  • Wendy Levy, Bay Area Video Coalition
  • Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
  • Angelo Sacerdote, Bay Area Video Coalition

Updated information will be distributed in early September. For more
information, contact the SFMOMA Collections Information and Access
Department at collections@sfmoma.org.

[posted by Marla Misunas to the MCN list]