[Nhcoll-l] SPNHC+TDWG Conference: Symposium on archives and disaster recovery of digital data.

[Jeff A. Gerbracht]

A quick followup on my earlier request.  As I put together the intro talk to this symposium, I'd really like to include some real world disaster stories around the permanent, or even temporary, loss of data.


  If you know of any that you feel comfortable sharing, you can send any stories directly to me if that's simpler,  jag73 at cornell.edu


 Please note that names will be changed to protect the innocent 😉

    Thanks in advance,

       Jeff


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Jeff Gerbracht
Lead Application Developer
Neotropical Birds, eBird, Birds of North America
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
607-254-2117

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From: Jeff A. Gerbracht
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 4:24:06 PM
To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: SPNHC+TDWG Conference: Symposium on archives and disaster recovery of digital data.


   This years joint meeting in late August promises to be a great meeting for both the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG).  Several of us in TDWG are hosting a symposium at the meeting entitled "Digital Collection Data:  storage, archive and disaster recovery."

https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2018/sessions/S10
and I'd really like this symposium to include experiences from both groups.   To that end, I'm reaching out to this list in hopes that a few of you are attending and will have a story to tell about your own experiences and how you manage  the digital components of Natural History collections.

In the symposium, we'd like these talks to 'dive deep' into how different groups and projects are managing digital data from an archival perspective.  There will be many participants at the meeting who manage digital data and who don't have expertise or fully understand the importance of archiving their data in a robust manner.  This symposium will cover best practices and show how different groups are managing their data for long term archival and disaster recovery.

Note that the deadline from abstract submissions has been extended until March 26, and here's the link to the Call for Abstracts page. https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2018/call-for-abstracts

I'm also interested in any of those disaster stories, as I put together the symposium, I think it's good to also openly discuss what happens when that archival system isn't in place.

   Please feel free to contact me with any questions,
      Jeff


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Jeff Gerbracht
jag73 at cornell.edu
Neotropical Birds, eBird, Birds of North America
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
607-254-2117

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