iPres brings together information scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, service providers, software developers and other experts to share cutting edge research and innovative practice across a wide variety of topics in digital preservation, from theory to implementation, from local to global, from industry, academia and all across the public sector. 2022 marks the 20th year of the Digital Preservation Coalition’s collaborative vision for the digital preservation community. The Indicative Program of the 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation is announced.

Register now to attend the event in Glasgow or online.

With the target date for the Library of Congress’s (LC) BIBFRAME 100 coming this fall, when most of LC’s cataloging staff will create descriptions in LC’s BIBFRAME system with MARC records created via conversion to MARC, this update forum will highlight some of the developments that could affect users of LC data.

Monday June 27, 2022, 1:00 – 2:00 pm (ET) / 10:00 – 11:00 am (PT)

This event will be held during the ALA Annual Conference.

Click to access program in Zoom(The presentation will be recorded)

Meeting ID: 160 327 6570
Passcode: 576692

The BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe is a forum for sharing knowledge about the practice of, production with, and planning of BIBFRAME implementation. It addresses to people working in the transition from MARC to Linked Data using the BIBFRAME model and related tools.
This is a hybrid event, either as an in-person two day workshop with broadcasting, being held on 20-21 September 2022; or as a virtual three day workshop, being held on 20-22 September 2022.

The call for proposals is now open, via the online submission form, before June 30, 2022.

Europeana 2022 will take place on 28 – 30 September 2022 and the call for proposals is announced. Like last year, 70% of the conference programme will be open to professionals working in and around the cultural heritage sector to share expertise, knowledge and experience in varied sessions.

To submit your application please read the detailed information on the call for proposals page and then complete our form.

The deadline for proposals is 27 May 2022.

iPres 2022 will offer an in-person and an online program, including digital preservation workshops, tutorials, paper presentations, panel discussions, posters and professional visits. This year, the conference’s theme Data For All, For Good, Forever: Let Digits Flourish invites reflection and debate about how digital preservation can support communities, ecologies, economies and ideas, so that they might flourish too.

The pre-programme is online.

Early Bird Registration for the iPres 2022 conference is now open! Register now!

Crossref, AfricArxiv, and the TCC Africa are collaborating to run a three-part webinar series to increase awareness of supporting discoverability in Africa through metadata and integrations with scholarly research tools and systems. This series will include talks from Crossref staff alongside speakers from AfLia (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions), AfricArXiv (the Pan-African Open Access Portal), Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), and AJOL (African Journals Online).

Each session will be recorded and links to the recording and materials will be shared afterward. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required: http://bit.ly/africacrossref.

ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers), a partner of ISSN International Centre, is the international trade association for scholarly publishing and communication. ALPSP is offering a two-session online course providing training on measuring impact and associated metrics. This course will be delivered over two sessions on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 May 2022: 09:00-12:00 (EDT), 14:00-17:00 (BST), 15:00-18:00 (CEST).

Registration is open.

The IFLA Serials & Other Continuing Resources section is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at its Open Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2022 in Dublin, Ireland.

The theme is: “The Use of Transformative Agreements: Do They Increase Access to Research?”

If you submitted your abstract by 18 April 2022,  you can follow the notification of acceptance:

Important dates:

• 18 April 2022: Deadline for submission of abstract
• 26 April 2022: Notification of acceptance
• 30 June 2022: Deadline for submission of slides