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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 Creeley's emails; network graph on Creeley's emails; virtual machine for InDesign files; virtual machine for Windows XP.

*Gabriela Redwine (Texas, Ransom Center)

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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 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 share some good answers and analogies for justifying the curation of digital materials in the first place.  This will be my lengthened "elevator talk," with some visual accompaniments that I normally can't bring into the elevator with me. 

Michael Forstrom (Beinecke) 
I'll walk through one or two recently drafted documents, depending on time, relating to Beinecke's curatorial or collection development efforts: a "digital collection development statement" and/or what I've identified as the digital capture options we must discuss with donors as part of the transfer process.       

Erika Farr (Emory) 
"Liminal shock and other early researcher reactions." I will briefly discuss researcher use of Salmon Rushdie's digital archive and describe how researcher feedback is shaping our future plans for access and researcher tools. 

Catherine Hobbs (Library and Archives Canada) 
"Dispersed Persons":  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.

Ed Fay (London School of Economics) 
I'll talk about some of the challenages we've faced in getting our digital library off the ground - from organisational to technical issues - and what solutions we've come up with (and borrowed!) to get us to where we are now. Some of these may be peculiar to us (or just peculiar!) but hopefully there will be some common themes.

Brad Westbrook (UC San Diego Libraries) 
"UCSD DAMS Assembly Process."  I'll provide a quick overview of the process for assembling information packages for the UC San Diego Digital Asset Management System.  We accept diverse sort of files and metadata, normalize the metadata to certain formats, and store as RDF, wch serves as the basis for our public interface but also for various exports, inc. METS.  My focus will be primarily on the workflow.