I'm delighted to be participating in a program that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA) is hosting on digital asset management issues. The all-day symposium is free; details are below.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Final Program Announcement

Working Digital Assets

This day-long symposium on Monday, September 24, 2007 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will explore the current state of managing, sharing, and preserving digital assets.

Speakers:

• Kurt D. Bollacker, The Long Now Foundation
• Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies LLC
• Patricia Cruse, California Digital Library
• Gary Fong, Genesis Photo Agency
• Hannah Frost, Stanford University Libraries
• Sue Grinols, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
• Wendy Levy, Bay Area Video Coalition
• Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
• Angelo Sacerdote, Bay Area Video Coalition
• Howard Simkins, Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
• John Slafsky, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• Francine Snyder, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• David Sturtevant, Harvard University Art Museums

Join us in considering questions about digital assets such as:

• Can we plan for 50 years and 5 years at the same time?
• What makes a 'quality, useful, and/or trustworthy' asset?
• What are the hot-button rights issues?
• Where are the innovative, creative, and/or resourceful solutions?
• How can we stay ahead of the technological curve(s)?

Symposium schedule:

• 8:30 Coffee
• 9:20 Welcome
• 9:30 Motivations and Strategies for managing, sharing, preserving
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 The Thing Itself and Influences
• 12:00 Lunch on your own
• 1:30 Rights: exclusive, non-exclusive, underlying, etc.
• 2:30 Break
• 2:45 Tools and Independence / Dependence
• 4:00 Refreshments

No registration fee, but please RSVP to collections@sfmoma.org by September 21 (if you haven't done so already).

Enter at SFMOMA's main entrance (151 Third Street).

Directions, public transit and parking: http://www.sfmoma.org/visit/visitinfo_directions.html