[Rdap] Digital Preservation Work Featured in May issue of Discover Magazine
William L Anderson
band at praxis101.com
Tue Jun 21 15:00:45 EDT 2011
Michael, I appreciate your thoughts on this; they make a good deal of sense.
-Bill
On 6/21/11 1:27 PM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote:
> I've been mulling this over the past week, and I'm not sure a
> mega-conference about all things digital- and data-related would be very
> attractive to me. Open Repositories and RDAP seem to be geared
> primarily towards the practitioner side of the practice-research
> spectrum, whereas my impression of JCDL and its peers are more towards
> the research side.
>
> If OR and RDAP become less about practice than theory, then I can see
> practitioners losing interest -- and they need events to share best
> practices, tools, and tips.
>
> Additionally, both OR and JCDL seem like rather long meetings when you
> factor in pre-conferences and post-conferences. I wouldn't want them to
> be any longer, and I rather like that RDAP is as short as it is.
>
> I see a real need for conferences like OR and RDAP for those of us who
> have boots on the ground, and I do hope they remain separate.
>
> If RDAP is to be merged into JCDL, I would hope that the relationship
> would be similar to RDAP's relationship with IA Summit, which is to say
> that one can attend RDAP without needing to drop extra dollars on a
> longer, less relevant conference (for some of us).
>
> My two cents.
>
> -Mike
>
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