Agenda
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
5:30pm
Reception at Harper’s Brew Pub
Thursday, April 20, 2006
8-8:45am
Breakfast
9am
Conference Begins
9-9:30am
Welcome and Conference Overview (Susanna Easton/Mark Kornbluh)
9:30-10:30am
Plenary Speaker: Paul Turnbull, Head of the School of Arts, Media, and Culture at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia: QPasifika: Digitally Exploring Tradition and Innovation in Indigenous Pacific Arts and Culture
10:30-10:45
Mini-break
10:45-11:45
MATRIX Presentation by Mark Kornbluh: Secondary Repositories: Building International Resources for Use and Reuse
12-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-2pm
Presentation on the Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR), the Title VI Language Resource Center at MSU by Patricia Paulsell, Co-director of CLEAR and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters.
2-2:30pm
Update from Washington; EELIAS Reporting (Susanna Easton)
2:30 –3pm
Presentation by Doug Cooper, Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Bangkok, Thailand: “Digital Libraries are the Answers; Now, What Was the Question?”
3-3:30pm
Mini-break
3:30-5pm
Panel 1
15 minute presentation on each funded project
Topic: Funding—types and sources
Participants:
TICFIA South Asia: Overseas Resources for Understanding the Subcontinent
James H. Nye
James T. Simon
The Southeast Asia Digital Library
Gregory Green
Drew VandeCreek
The SEAlang Library
Doug Cooper
Chair:
James Simon
5pm
Welcome reception and remarks in honor of the representatives of the Title VI Program for Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) of the U.S. Department of Education and its grantees.
6pm
Dinner Reception (paid for by MSU-CIBER)
Friday, April 21, 2006
8-8:45am
Breakfast
9am
Presentation on the Center for International Business Education and Research at MSU by Professor Tomas Hult, Executive Director of Academy of International Business: globalEDGE: From a Single Web-Page to the #1 Online Resource in International Business
10-Noon
Panel 2
15 minute presentation on each funded project
Topics: Intellectual property; non-Roman script technology; overseas partnerships; website maintenance
Participants:
The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
David Germano
Dan Haig
Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library
Ann Okerson
Elizabeth Beaudin
Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa
Mark Kornbluh
David Robinson
Local Libraries and Archives Project
Maria deJ. Ellis
Chair:
Ann Okerson
12-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-3pm
Panel 3
15 minute presentation on each funded project
Topics: Audio/video procurement, quality control, preservation and web presentation; working with vendors
Participants:
A Digital Library of the Caribbean
Catherine Marsicek
Judith Rogers
Erich Kesse
Julissa Castellanos
Central American and Mexican Video Archive
Sari M. Pascoe
Harvester for Knowledge Streams in the Americas
Cynthia Radding
Johann van Reenen
Chair:
Cynthia Radding
3-3:30pm
Mini-break
3:30-4:30pm
Discussion moderated by Mark Kornbluh: Linking TICFIA Projects: Mutual Support and Collaboration
4:30-5pm
Closing RemarksLast Updated: April 3, 2006