* apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, A reminder that registration for this year’s PASIG conference in Oxford, UK (11 – 13 September 2017) is now open. Early bird tickets are £150 (until 18 August). Tickets can be purchased here: http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-events/bodleian-librarie... Conference sessions include: * Digital preservation in the wider organisational context: Beyond the academic library * Preservation at the edge * Use/re-use of preserved content * Training and support: Equipping the organisation for digital preservation * Technical approaches to adding preservation capabilities * Technology trends: Storage, complex content, systems * Digital preservation implications of the current political, legal and environmental landscape * Future of preservation theory and practice Just some of the exciting conference talks include: "EOSC pilot of preservation in the cloud" Jamie Shiers, CERN "Developing and applying principles for discovery and access for the UK Data Service" Katherine McNeill, UK Data Archive "Digital cinema asset preservation" Mathieu Giannecchini, Ymagis "Sharing my loss to protect your data. A story of unexpected data loss and how to do real preservation." Eduardo del Valle, University of the Balearic Islands "I’m not really technical, but…" Stephanie Taylor, CoSector, University of London "Preservation storage criteria" Sibyl Schaefer, UCSD For a full updated list of speakers and topics, please visit: https://pasigoxford.org/ We are also offering day only tickets to the Bootcamp Day (11 September) for £75. The Bootcamp Day is an opportunity to learn the basics of digital preservation from practitioners. This day is run in partnership with the Digital Preservation Coalition. http://www.dpconline.org We look forward to seeing you there! Natalie Harrower, on behalf of the PASIG Steering Committee This event is being hosted and organised by Bodleian Libraries and the Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge (DPOC) team. PASIG is made possible by the generous contributions of our sponsors: Arkivum, Digital Preservation Network, Jisc, Libnova, Oracle, Preservica, ResourceSpace _________________ Dr. Natalie Harrower | Director, Digital Repository of Ireland Royal Irish Academy | 19 Dawson St. Dublin 2 n.harrower@ria.ie<mailto:n.harrower@ria.ie> | @natalieharrower | @dri_ireland | www.dri.ie<http://www.dri.ie> The Royal Irish Academy is subject to the Freedom of Information Acts 2014 and is compliant with the provisions of the Data Protection Acts 1988 & 2003. For further information see our website www.ria.ie