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Each delegate must present a 5 minute lightning talk at the start of Day 1 as an ice-breaker to the Symposium.

This should be on an aspect or element of digital archives. Your lightening talk may relate to a topic proposal but this isn't compulsory.

We will then draw the names out of a hat at random and publish the running-order on UPDATE: order of the talks determined by random order generator - see the lightning talk timetable page on Thursday 12TH MAY.  We have also created a page for you to add comments to colleagues talks, identify connections, propose solutions etc etc

What's a Lightning Talk?

If you are looking for more information, please consult the following.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk 
• http://perl.plover.com/lt/lightning-talks.html

Lightning talks - topics

Erin O'Meara, University of North Carolina

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Courtney C. Mumma (City of Vancouver)
"Forming the SIPsTaming the Games: Information Must Submit": I'll offer a practical overview of what we're currently working on in Vancouver. Our biggest challenge this spring and summer will be turning the assorted Olympic records into SIPs ready for ingest. I'll address the variety of media and formats as well as our plans for taming them.

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Gretchen Gueguen (UVA)
"Presenting the whole fruit basket" -- I'll talk about the issues surrounding presentation of digital resources in the special collections/archives environment (aggregate description) vs. the library environment (item-level description). As an example, I'll look at the work we've been doing at East Carolina University, where we have experimented with providing digital resources both in a digital library and EAD environment, and mixing item-level objects (apples) and folder-level objects (oranges) in the same fruit basket. It's a delightful and fruity mess! :)

Simon Wilson (Hull)
"The Good, the bad and the Ugly: negotiating the deposit of born-digital archives" - I won't be re-enacting scenes from the movie but I will be looking at some of our experiences to date in dealing with depositors regarding born-digital archives and what we have learnt in the process.

Peter Chan (Stanford) 
I would like to share 10 things I have been exploring in the past 16 months for the AIMS project: donor survey; high resolution site photos; 5.25 inch floppy capture station; computer media photo station; forensic / logical capture; forensic software for arrangement & description; email mining on CreeleyKoch's emails; network graph on Creeley's emails; virtual machine for InDesign files; virtual machine for Windows XP.issues on authenticity. (Slide)

Gabriela Redwine Wiki Markup*Gabriela Redwine (Texas, Ransom Center) *  
I'd like to use my recent struggles with a group of 5.25-inch Apple \ ]\[ Plus disks to frame a larger (and very brief) discussion about process and failure. What aspects of methodology and procedure do our skirmishes with different types of media call into question?

Alison Hinderliter (The Newberry Library) 
"Can't “Can’t we just print it out?"” and other FAQs. With hesitation and resistance (aka fear and loathing) coming from my potential donors as well as my library colleagues, I'll I’ll share some good answers and analogies for justifying the curation of digital materials in the first place.  This will be my lengthened "elevator “elevator talk," ” with some visual accompaniments that I normally can't can’t bring into the elevator with me. 

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Catherine Hobbs (Library and Archives Canada) 
"Dispersed “Dispersed Persons":  I'll I’ll briefly discuss how digital archives of individuals raise issues around provenance, original order and interpreting arrangement in an age of proliferation, multiple platforms/devices, and benign neglect.

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Ricc Ferrante (Smithsonian Institution Archives)
I will split my focus between the pitfalls and successes of working with a DAMS shared between several museums, galleries, and research centers and leveraging social media and the web to expand and amplify researcher constituencies.

Aprille McKay (University of Michigan)
I will summarize our project to capture and preserve scholarly communications transmitted via email among university officers, deans, directors and VIP scholars.  I will focus on the rapid pace of change in our environment, and the collateral benefits that accrue through persisting in the face of uncertainty.