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How will we access digital data and media in the future? What will it cost to preserve the ever-increasing amount information our societies create? How will data curation be managed?

Come learn about the information technology behind Chronolopis, a national digital preservation research collaboration. Robert McDonald from the San Diego Super Computing Center will speak on this digital preservation environment, a Library of Congress funded co-developed project of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC); the University of California, San Diego Libraries; the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); and the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS).

Speaker: Robert McDonald, San Diego Super Computing Center

Robert H. McDonald is Director for Strategic Data Initiatives in the Digital Preservation Initiatives (DPI) Group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego. As co-project manager for the Chronopolis digital preservation partnership, McDonald is responsible for the administration, policy and outreach component of the Chronopolis preservation environment and serves as an outreach partner to the library community. Prior to his involvement with SDSC he served as the Associate Director of Libraries for Technology & Research at Florida State University. Mr. McDonald is an active speaker and author and has presented previously at the annual meetings of the American Library Association, the Charleston Conference, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), EDUCAUSE, Internet2, MERLOT, and Open Repositories. His latest article with colleagues from UCSD focuses on formalized trust relationships for digital repositories and can be found in an Educause Review: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0835.pdf. His website is located at http://www.sdsc.edu/~mcdonald.