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Speakers and Themes

Keynote Ideas

Cleared out some of the longer list of speakers that are not really under consideration and put them here. Keep those fresh ideas coming!

• Jennifer Pahlka, we invited her to DP13 and she was interested but unavailable. Currently on a fellowship at OSTP, running through the summer?
• Margaret Gould Stewart: YouTube's head of user Experience gave a really compelling talk about how YouTube thinks about Copyright
• Jonathan Zittrain Wikipedia article, see also
  • Berkman Center for Internet & Society site
  • Abstract regarding JCDL 2006 keynote on redaction, identity vs. privacy, etc.
  • Cathy Marshall's blog post regarding above keynote
• Cole Crawford or Chris Kemp, OpenStack, to talk about the power of community-driven innovation

Potential speakers who have been invited:

• Cole Crawford on 2/20 by Barrie, response pending
• danah boyd on 2/18 by Barrie, declined
• Amber Case TED Talk, on 2/20 by Erin, declined
• Henry Rollins, declined

Many interesting folks at http://www.allthingsopen.org/

• Scott Chacon, Github
• Chris Dibona, Director of Open Source, Google
• Jessica McKellar, Python Software Foundation
• Erynn Petersen, Outercurve Foundation, Executive Director

Keynotes, Panels or Breakouts

The following could be either plenary panels or breakout sessions depending on an overall evaluation of their quality. Additionally, stellar individuals might make for a good keynote.

PLACE:

• Andrew Turner, the Chief Technology Officer of Esri R&D Center in Washington, DC.
• Matthew Bloch the New York Times digital mapmaker
• Jon Voss, Strategic Partnerships Director of Historypin.
• Deborah Boyer Azavea
• Matthew Knutzen New York Public Library
• Rodrigo Davies, Research Assistant at MIT’s Center for Civic Media on crowdfunding government

Revisiting Archive Ingest and Handling Test:

• Michael Nelson
• Johns Hopkins
• Etc.

Digital Preservation Tools Overview:

• ArchiveMatica
• Preservica
• Bagit
• ETC

Review of project management issues facing digital stewardship organizations:

• Kate Zwaard, LC
• Other peeps who have to manage developers and have a "real" view of what managing these projects means

Collaboration:

• DPLA
• Other collaborative organizations

Online Transactions and Security:

• Bitcoin.
• Also discussed what methodologies and techniques are being employed by the information security industry to ensure continuous access to information

Scientific Data At-Risk:

• led by someone from the CODATA DARTG or CENDI
• Jane Greenberg
• John Faundeen
• Chris Muller

Digital Preservation Plans in Commercial Firms:

• Stephen Wolfram
• David Rosenthal

The right to be forgotten, opting out of digital preservation infrastructures:

• Danah Boyd issues (though not her because she can't come)
• opting out of LC twitter archive?

Research uses of Preserved Digital Content:

• social scientists using twitter
• the work at the Hathi Trust Research Center

Digital forensics:

• MITH

Preserving Email:

Economic models for collaborative preservation:

Commercial digital archiving services:

The NSA as a digital preservation organization:

Archiving social media

• Facebook
• Google Data Liberation
• LinkedIN
• Aaron Cope on Flickr tools and other tools etc.