Tufts Regional Fedora Conference

Tufts University Digital Collections & Archives and UIT Academic Technology present a one-day regional Fedora conference.

July 20, 2010
9 AM-5 PM

Tweeters: the hash tag for this event is #TF10.

General information

This day-long conference in Massachusetts will give us an opportunity to hear from other Fedora users. More importantly, it will give us an opportunity to talk to each other and swap ideas and thoughts about the way we use Fedora Commons.

Registration is free and includes talks, breakout sessions, and morning and afternoon refreshments. Lunch is not included. The conference will be held in the heart of Boston’s Chinatown, walking distance to many excellent restaurants. Conference registrants will receive updates as the program takes shape.

Schedule

Registration and coffee, 8:30-9:00
Welcome, 9:00-9:15
Presentation by Thornton Staples of DuraSpace, 9:00-10:30
Break, 10:30-11:00
Lightning Rounds, 11:00-12:30
Lunch, 12:30-2:00
“Birds of a Feather” sessions, 2:00-3:00

• Preservation and PREMIS
• Metadata, search, and discovery
• Small repositories
• Ingest workflow and policy
• Integrations (Zotero, Seasr, Vue, Sakai…)

Break, 3:00-3:30
Presentation by Mark Leggott about Islandora, 3:30-4:30
Closing remarks, 4:30-4:45

Registration information

Register online by 1 July, 2010. For more information, contact us.

If you have any requirements for special accommodations for accessibility, please let us know.

Directions, accommodations, and transportation

The conference is at 1 Kneeland St., Boston, MA, in the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. Directions and maps are available.

The nearby Tufts Medical Center provides a detailed accommodations guide which lists a variety of nearby hotels at different prices.

We have prepared a list of many excellent nearby restaurants.