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2012-11-13 OPF Hackathon - Emulation, learn from the experts

Added by Becky McGuinness · last edited by Becky McGuinness · on Oct 01, 2012

Who Should Attend and Why?

Anyone wishing to learn about emulation from some of the leading experts in the digital preservation community.

Practitioners interested in:

Learning more about emulated environments and their role in presenting digital content in its original context.
The use of emulation to provide access to complex digital material.
How emulation can play a role in your digital preservation workflow.

Developers interested in:

How to set up a simple emulation infrastructure.

Anyone interested in:

Sharing real life emulation use cases.
Contributing to defining used cases for future development.
Learning about the results of emulation R&D projects (KEEP, Planets, bw FLA).
Seeing demonstrations of, and getting hands on experience of emulators.
Preservation metadata for emulation environments.

Attendees are expected to participate in the event, please bring the following if possible:

Any examples of content that presents rendering problems.
Potential uses cases for emulation in their organisation.
Their laptops, with preferred development environment if applicable.

Agenda topics:

Practical use-cases / challenges
Access strategies
Metadata and representation information
Scalable and sustainable emulation
New challenges in the field
Project presentations

The full agenda will be available soon.

Registration

Registration is now open to members only at: http://opfemulation.eventbrite.co.uk/. OPF members are invited to attend free-of-charge (please use the code issued to your main point of contact at your organisation). Non-members are welcome at the rate of EUR 200.00.

Location

Faculty of Engineering/Technische Fakultät Albert-Ludwigs-Universität

Freiburg Georges-Köhler-Allee 101

79110 Freiburg

Building: 101

http://www.uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/kontakt-und-wegweiser/lageplaene/technischefakultaet

Travel and accommodation information

Emulation Hackathon - Travel and Accommodation

Event dinner

More information coming soon.