News

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2015[edit]

April 28: Evelyn McLellan at IMLS Focus: Strategic Priorities meeting in Washington DC
April 14: Evelyn McLellan at CNI to talk about Islandora/Archivematica integration
March 25: Arkivum Coffee break webinar Delving deeper into digital preservation for higher education institutions
March 13: PASIG Group Meeting, Service Provider Case Studies (San Diego, California)
February 19: Launch of ArchivesDirect a new Archivematica/Duraspace hosted service! See http://archivesdirect.org/ and http://www.artefactual.com/services/hosting/ for more info!
February 19: Archivematica Webinar, 12-1PM Pacific (full) and 1:30-2:30PM Pacific,[1]
February 18:Islandora Camp BC, Technical Services Director Justin Simpson on Archivematica Integration, 2:30-3PM Pacific (Vancouver)
February 12: ACA@UBC 7th Annual International Seminars and Symposium - Panel 3: In the Workplace with President Evelyn McLellan (Vancouver)
February 11: Research Data Canada federated pilot meeting - Archivematica/Dataverse integration for Scholar's Portal with President Evelyn McLellan (Vancouver)
February 9: Code4Arc Full day pre-conference at Code4Lib with ArchivesSpace and BitCurator teams (Portland, OR)

2014[edit]

November 19: Best Practices Exchange 2014 Archivematica: demonstration and sustainability strategies (Montgomery, Alabama)
October 27: Digital Library Federation Forum, Evelyn McLellan, Sustaining Open-Source Software, with ArchivesSpace, BitCurator, CollectionSpace, DuraSpace, Hydra, and Islandora
October 20-24: Council of State Archivists State Electronic Records Initiative (CoSA/SERI) Electronic Records Training Institute Demonstration and workflow management discussion (Salt Lake City, Utah)
October 7: iPres 2014 Digital Preservation Systems Showcase (Melbourne)
October 6: AtoM, Archivematica and Digital Preservation by Lise Summers and Meg Travers, State Records Office of Western Australia (Melbourne)
August 14: SAA Acquisition and Appraisal Section panel - Courtney Mumma on "Appraisal in Archivematica" with Cal Lee (BitCurator), Donald Mennerich (NYU), Skip Kendall (Harvard University Archives) and Joshua Ranger (AVPreserve)
August 13: User group meeting with Courtney Mumma
August 12: SAA Research Forum "The Format Policy Registry -- Making sense of format migration strategies as a community"(Courtney C. Mumma, Artefactual Systems)
July 23: Digital Preservation 2014 "Implementing preservation metadata:PREMIS conformance and best practices" (Evelyn McLellan, Artefactual Systems, and Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress)
July 22: Digital Preservation 2014 "Next Generation: The First Digital Repository for Museum Collections" (Ben Fino-Radin, MoMA; Dan Gillean, Artefactual Systems; Kara Van Malssen, AVPreserve) (Washington, DC)
June 24: ACA Digital preservation and holdings management using Archivematica and AtoM (Victoria)
June 11: Open Repositories 2014 Building Successful, Open Repository Software Ecosystems: Technology and Community (Helsinki)
June 6: IASSIST An Archival Model to Organize your Datasets for Preservation (Toronto)
June 4: Archivematica user group meeting, University of Toronto (Toronto)
May 30-31: BitCurator Professional Experts Panel meeting (College Park, MD)
May 2: Intro to Archivematica, BC Code4Lib with Mark Jordan, Head of Library Systems at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver)
April 10: Personal Digital Archiving 2014 poster and demonstrations (Indianapolis)
April 9: Technology Bytes: Tools and Services for Digital Preservation in Bite-Sized Chunks demonstration and Q&A (online registration open)

April 1 & 2: Council of State Archivists State Electronic Records Initiative (CoSA/SERI) Electronic Records Training Institute Demonstration and workflow management discussion (Richmond)
February 25: International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) 2014 Archivematica demonstration (San Francisco)
February 12: Archives and Record Council Wales (ARCW) and National Library of Wales (NLW) Archivematica Go-Live Event (Aberystwyth, United Kingdom)

2013[edit]

December 13: Procuring Preservation: Writing and Understanding Requirements in Digital Preservation. DPC event (London, England)
November 19: Digital Preservation Panel at Preserving and Archiving Electronically Generated Materials, Leon Levy Foundation and Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (New York)
November 5: Archivematica User Group Meeting at DLF Forum (Austin, Texas)
September 3: Realizing the Archivematica vision: delivering a comprehensive and free OAIS implementation iPres 2013 (Lisbon, Portugal)
August 16: PREMIS and METS in Archivematica 0.10-beta SAA Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable (New Orleans, Louisiana)
July 8: Digital Preservation Best Practices: Lessons Learned from the Experts at Open Repositories 2013 Register (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island)
June 5: Archivematica 0.10-beta tutorial at New York Archives Conference Register (Long Island, New York)
May 4: Archivematica 0.10-beta tutorial at AABC/NWA Joint Conference Register (UBC, Vancouver)
April 19: AVpres CURATEcamp lightning talk AV in Archivematica
April 12: North East Archivematica Users Group meeting #neaug (New York Public Library)
March 14: COPPUL Digital Curation Workshop, " Introduction to Archivematica and Digital Preservation" (Vancouver, Canada)
January 18: Introducing the Archivematica Digital Preservation System - Presentation and demonstration, Metropolitan New York Library Council (New York, NY)
January 9: CurateGear 2013, "Tackling File Characterization and Analysis with Archivematica" (UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

2012[edit]

November 16: CURATEcamp 24 hour worldwide file identification hackathon
October 30: "Archivematica's Open Source Approach to Digital Preservation", National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Infrastructure Working group (web meeting)
October 16: Archivematica and the Open Source Mindset for Digital Preservation Systems Interview (Library of Congress Signal Blog)
October 6: Archivematica 0.9 Workshops, Session 1: 10 am - 12 pm and Session 2: 2 pm - 4 pm, iPres Conference Hotel, Vancouver Room
October 4: The Community Driven Evolution of the Archivematica Project, Conference Proceedings, iPres conference (Toronto)
September 29: Archivematica 0.9 Workshops, Session 1: 10 am - 12 pm and Session 2: 2 pm - 4 pm, UBC Robson Square (Rm C440)
September 26: UNESCO Memory of the World The Archivematica project: Meeting digital continuity's technical challenges (Open Document) / (PDF) (Vancouver)
August 7: Archivematica User Group, an informal meeting of Archivematica's current and potential users, hosted by an Archivematica representative. 1 pm - 3 pm, Aqua 314
August 2, Islandora Camp 2012, Integrating Islandora and Archivematica by Mark Jordan (Prince Edward Island)
July 24 - 26: National Digital Stewardship Alliance annual meeting and Distributed Digital Frameworks working group meeting (Washington, DC)
June 12-15: IS&T Archiving 2012 Presentation & Short Course: "Practical digital preservation using Archivematica" (Copenhagen)
June 6: The Archives and Technology Unconference (TAATU), Association of Canadian Archivists annual conference (Whitehorse, YK)
January 26 - 27: U of Toronto iSchool course (Toronto)
January 19: Archivematica 0.8-alpha at the City of Vancouver Archives (blog post)
January 6: CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections (Chapel Hill, NC)

2011[edit]

October 26: Open-source solutions for archival collections presentation at UBC Open Access Week
October 25: LOCKSS PLN conference (Vancouver) Birds of a Feather presentation
October 19: Access 2011 (Vancouver) presentation: part1-VanGarderen part2-Suhonos
October 18: Access2011 Hackfest project (Vancouver)
October 17: Archivematica User Group Meeting (Vancouver)
August 27: Society of American Archivists 2011 conference presentation (Chicago)
August 25: (1st!) Archivematica User Group Meeting (Chicago)
August 15-16: CURATEcamp (San Francisco)
June 26: American Library Association 2011 conference. (New Orleans) (a) PREMIS in Archivematica (b) Demystifying Digital Preservation Systems
June 24: Release 0.7.1-alpha
June 6 - 7: U of Toronto iSchool course (Toronto)
June 2: Association of Canadian Archivists 2011 conference presentation (Toronto)
May 12: Preservation and Access Special Interest Group (PASIG) presentation (San Francisco)
May 5: Lyrasis "Staying on TRAC" webinar
April 28: Archives Association of British Columbia 2011 conference workshop (Vancouver)
Mar 31 - Apr 1: U of Toronto iSchool course: Digital Preservation: From Theory to Practice using Archivematica (Toronto)
Mar 28 - 29: U of Toronto iSchool course: Digital Preservation: From Theory to Practice using Archivematica (Ottawa)
February 18: 0.7-alpha release
February 5: Ontario Library Association Super Conference: Digital preservation best practices (slides 49-76)
January 13: SNIA Open Standards for Digital Archiving webcast

2010[edit]

December 6: Poster session at the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (Chicago, Illinois).
November 10: University of Victoria (Victoria, Canada) workshop (slides)
November 5: University of Calgary (Calgary, Canada) workshop. (slides)
September 20: iPress 2010 conference (Vienna, Austria): "Using Micro-Services and Open-Source Software to Deliver a Comprehensive Digital Curation Solution" (paper) (YouTube) (slides)
September 16: International Council on Archives CITRA Conference workshop (Oslo, Norway)
September 1: Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, Canada) workshop.
- Archivematica overview (3.3 MB). Peter Van Garderen.
- Vancouver Digital Archives (1.8 MB). Glenn Dingwall.
- Preservation Planning (43 KB). Evelyn McLellan.
June 10: Association of Canadian Archivists conference (Halifax, Canada). "Meeting the Digital Challenge"
June 9: The Archives and Technology Unconference Archivematica Technical Overview and Preservation Planning (Halifax, Canada)
June 8: Digital Preservation in the Canadian Landscape (Halifax, Canada)
June 2: IS&T Archiving 2010 presentation (The Hague, Netherlands). "Lowering the Barrier to Best Practice Digital Preservation".
May 25-26: ICA Section on International Organisations (Washington, DC) workshop: "Practical Digital Preservation"
May 24: The National Archives Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies (NCAST) presentation (Washington, DC). "Creating a Comprehensive Digital Preservation System". YouTube video and transcript
"Selecting Formats for Digital Preservation: Lessons Learned during the Archivematica Project" Spring 2010 Information Standards Quarterly
May 19: Archivematica 0.6-alpha release