Lightening talks

Each delegate must present a 5 minute lightening 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 the lightening talk timetable page on Thursday 12TH MAY

What's a Lightening 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

Lightening talks - topics

Please provide your name, institutional affiliation and title of your lightening talk by FRIDAY 6TH MAY

Tom Laudeman, University of Virginia (AIMS software developer)
I'll dash through the process of turning an ingest of files into a SIP via the Rubymatica web site. Being based on Archivematica, Rubymatica unpacks any archive files in the ingest, detox'es file names, checks for viruses, checksums all files, runs FITS for file identification, pulls in an empty DC file (for later use), creates a METS file with the directory structure and FITS XML, and then extracts DROID PRONOM PUIDs. Done. Log files and technical meta data are created and saved as part of the SIP directory tree on the server. Separate steps are available to loosely integrate a Tufts TAPER submission agreement, a donor survey, or to create a Bagit bag.

Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland) 
"Librarians as the Enemies of Bits": Using a title tendentiously drawn from Randolph G. Adam's famous 1937 attack on librarians as the enemies of books I will offer a couple of quick, cautionary examples of how and why the "materiality" of born-digital materials matters, and what sorts of things scholars of the future might be looking for in born-digital collections.

Courtney C. Mumma (City of Vancouver)
"Forming the SIPs": 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.

Mark Matienzo (Yale)
"Gumshoe: A Prototype Accessioning Assessment Tool": I'll run through a quick demonstration of Gumshoe, which is a web application written in Ruby and that uses Solr. Gumshoe indexes file- and filesystem-level metadata from a forensic disk image. I'll be describing it in the context of the accessioning workflow we're trying to flesh out at Yale.

Seth Shaw (Duke)
*Tentative. (I reserve the right to think of something better; comments & suggestions welcome.)* "IT Audit Fun": I will briefly talk about our Library's IT audit including the auditors initial reactions (hint: they weren't expecting Special Collections born-digital electronic records), their report, and our next steps.