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• WHEN: April 19th, 2013 (12pm EST-TBD)
• WHERE: The Internet & physical participant sites including:
  • • Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco
    • University of Virginia Library in Charlottesville
    • New York City site, WITNESS
• COST: free!

What is CURATEcamp?

For a detailed description, see: http://www.curatecamp.org/ The format of a CURATEcamp is informed by the spirit of an unconference, BarCamp, or OpenAgenda meeting. The day's agenda is generated by the attendees of the CURATEcamp, who engage in dialogue together. All attendees are expected to give a demo, present a talk, drive a discussion, or participate in a panel or roundtable.

What is special about this version of CURATEcamp?

• We'll be focused on audiovisual materials, specifically digital or digitized collections. A desired result of this camp is that it can generate topics and projects for a hackathon with coder/developer participation, in association with this year's AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) conference in Richmond, Virginia November 6-9, 2013.

• CURATEcamp AVpres will be a collaboration between several physical sites, but we'll virtually convene via Google Hangout and IRC for an introductory "keynote," lightning talks, breakout sessions, and closing session.

• Interested groups of participants are welcome to convene at a physical site and attend the CURATEcamp. Each site needs to have a dedicated "mediator" who facilitates group discussion via the Google Hangout and does "tech support" for that site (these can be two different people). The program will consist of both lightning talk presentations and breakout sessions that enable attendees at disparate sites to virtually assemble and continue conversations.

Who participates? Why would I want to participate?

Audiovisual archivists, archivists, librarians, conservators, or anyone who deals with the preservation and access of digital moving image materials. The initial idea is that the CURATEcamp will allow AV archivists to discuss issues and challenges in digital curation, share use cases, and begin to stitch together existing tools and solutions. Our goal is to articulate needs that can be concretely addressed with coder and developer participation at an AMIA 2013-related hackathon. There will be "mediators" in the sessions who will navigate questions around digital preservation generally, if that is not your area of expertise.

How will this Camp's format function?

Due to the short duration (~5 hours) and remote nature, we'll will try to organize the Camp as much of the program as possible in advance. Proposed topics for discussion can be submitted when your complete the registration form described below. Before the Camp itself, we will identify topics and consolidate suggestions that address the same issue. We'll then open up voting on these proposed topics, as well as using them as prompts in our call for lightning talks.

Our goal is to be as inclusive as possible, within the technological and logistical constraints of a networked unconference. The Camp schedule will reflect both the physical and networked nature of our format, with conversation at the physical participant sites supplemented by discussions and questions via IRC.

Individual breakout sessions will have designated notetakers, with shared documents used to centralize information.

Initial plenary in which all sites participate (~20m)

-Overview of how the day will flow, links to shared documents, guidelines for technical difficulties

Lightning talks via Google Hangout On Air (~80m)

-A round of lightning talks addressing some of the topics and issues most frequently mentioned by registrants

Breakouts sessions via Google Hangout on Air with IRC (~80m)

–Concurrent breakout sessions centered on topics (voted on in advance). Links to respective streams and IRC channels provided in central Google doc.

Lightning talks Round 2 via Google Hangout On Air (~60m)

-Another round of lightning talks!

Breakout sessions (~60m)=

Group sign-off with all participant sites (~10m)

Technical logistics

Google Hangouts on Air allow a maximum of 10 live participants—these will be comprised of the various physical host sites. All other participants are encouraged to follow a live stream of this discussion, participating and articulating questions via IRC. Moderators and attendees at the physical sites will be monitoring the IRC discussion, and will make sure these questions and concerns are articulated and addressed.

• If you are the point person for organizing a participant site, see here for technical recommendations for physical site set-ups.

How can I participate?

Everyone interested in participating in CURATEcamp AVPres should fill out this registration form. The form asks whether you want to volunteer as a host site, find a site, or participate as a "lone arranger". We will contact you to find out more about your physical site, to match you with a site nearby, or to otherwise get you involved.

There is a question in the form that asks what topics you are interested in discussing at the camp. It is important that you be as specific as possible, the more detail the better. As we receive proposed topics, we will document them on the wiki, and later open up voting on which topics we want to discuss in greater detail.

Participant sites

• New York City site, WITNESS // contact: Yvonne Ng — yvonne{at}witness{dot}org

• Charlottesville, VA, University of Virginia Library // contact: Steven Villereal — villereal{at}gmail{dot}com

• Los Angeles, CA , UCLA // contact: Aaron Bittel — ambittel{at}arts{dot|ucla{dot}edu

• San Francisco, CA, Bay Area Video Coalition // contact: Lauren Sorensen — laurens{at}bavc{dot}org

• Bloomingon, IN, Indiana University Bloomington // contact: Jon Dunn — jwd{at}iu{dot}edu-

Organizers and contact information

• Lauren Sorensen: laurens [at] bavc [dot] org
• Steven Villereal: villereal [at] gmail [dot] com
• Kara Van Malssen: kara [at] avpreserve [dot] com