Greetings AAOLIST subscribers,

I have been asked to post the following invitation.  I am sorry that I
will not be able to attend myself.  Enjoy!

Suzanne Dubeau
AAO List Administrator

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Dear Archives colleagues;

You are cordially invited to the Faculty of Information Studies to
hear a lecture by Henry Gladney. The details are below. Please come
if you can.

regards

barbara craig

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Special Lecture:  "Legacy of Our Future: 100-year Digital Archiving"

Speaker            :   Henry Gladney, PH.D. Researcher, IBM Almaden
                               Research Centre

Location            :  Faculty of Information Studies, Room 728

Date                :  Wednesday November 15

Time                : 12.00 noon.

Everyone is cordially invited to hear this talk.
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"Legacy of Our Future History: 100-year Digital Archiving"

Most new content will originate in digital form.  Some content will
be fundamentally digital.  What's needed to preserve the bitstreams?
What will be needed to interpret saved bitstreams?

No broadly-based program of preserving digital information exists
today anywhere in the world.  In this talk, I will outline the
challenges that  must be surmounted to achieve what seems necessary
in institutional missions, funding, organization, intellectual
property law, information services engineering, and computer
science.  We know of only one computer science problem that needs to
be solved: enabling our descendants to interpret bit streams that we
save.  We believe we know how to do this reliably; I will therefore
give it more attention than the other challenges listed.

Dr. Gladney is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research
Center; California.  He received his B.A. (1960) from the University of
Toronto, and his M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1963) from Princeton University.
Since 1987 he has worked on technical and business issues associated
with digital libraries, digital security, and managing digital
representations of intellectual property. Pointers to his 60 scholarly
articles and 10 patents can be seen at
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/gladney/hmgpubs.html.
He recently published the article "Archiving the Digital Public Record:
An Internet Snail's Pace" in the Information Impacts Magazine, viewable
at http://www.cisp.org/imp/october_2000/10_00gladney-insight.htm.
Dr. Gladney is a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and
a Fellow of the American Physical Society.



Barbara L. Craig
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto
140 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6
Tel: (416)978-7093
Fax: (416)971-1399 (not private)
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