[Moims-dai] Fwd: Invitation to NITRD FASTER presentation - Digital Vellum and the challenge of long-term preservation by Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Google - Aug 12, 2016 10 to 11:30am (ET) at the National Science Foundation - Remote participation is availabl

Thu Jul 21 15:48:52 UTC 2016

David,

If you can, be sure to weigh in.

Mark

Mark Conrad
NARA Information Services
IAS
The National Archives and Records Administration
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:30 AM, David Giaretta <david at giaretta.org> wrote:

> The abstract indicates that his view of semantics is still rather limited.
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> ..David
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> *From:* MOIMS-DAI [mailto:moims-dai-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Mark Conrad
> *Sent:* 21 July 2016 16:10
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> *Subject:* [Moims-dai] Fwd: Invitation to NITRD FASTER presentation -
> Digital Vellum and the challenge of long-term preservation by Dr. Vinton G.
> Cerf, Google - Aug 12, 2016 10 to 11:30am (ET) at the National Science
> Foundation - Remote participation is available
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> Here is another opportunity to meet with Vint Cerf in the DC Metro area or
> via the internet.
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> Mark
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Ramia, Fouad CTR* <ramia at nitrd.gov>
> Date: Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:51 AM
> Subject: Invitation to NITRD FASTER presentation - Digital Vellum and the
> challenge of long-term preservation by Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Google - Aug 12,
> 2016 10 to 11:30am (ET) at the National Science Foundation - Remote
> participation is available
> To: "Ramia, Fouad CTR" <ramia at nitrd.gov>
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Please join the NITRD FASTER
> <https://www.nitrd.gov/nitrdgroups/index.php?title=FASTER> Community of
> Practice for an informative presentation and discussion with Dr. Vinton G.
> Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. Dr. Cerf
> will share his perspectives regarding the challenge of long-term
> preservation of digital information semantics.
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> Please join us on* Friday, August 12, 2016 from 10:00 to 11:30am (ET); in
> NSF Room I-1235.*
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> Please distribute this announcement and post to your agency bulletin
> boards.
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> *Digital Vellum and the challenge of long-term preservation of digital
> information semantics*
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> *Date:*     Friday, August 12, 2016
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> *Time:*    10:00 to 11:30 am (ET)
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> *Location:*             National Science Foundation
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> 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230
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> Room I-1235
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> (Directions to NSF are at: http://www.nsf.gov/about/visit/.)
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> *If you plan to attend in person, please RSVP to **meetings at nitrd.gov*
> <meetings at nitrd.gov>* to facilitate NSF visitors’ badging process. An NSF
> visitor’s badge is required for this presentation. *
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> *Before proceeding to the meeting space in Stafford I – Rm. 1235, you must
> first obtain a visitor’s badge at NSF Information and Conference Center
> Desk. It is located on the first floor of Stafford Place I at the N. Stuart
> and 9th Streets entrance. Once you have obtained your visitor’s badge,
> please proceed to the meeting location on the 12th floor – Rm. 1235/NSF
> Boardroom.*
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> *Remote participation is available. Instructions to join our meeting
> remotely using WebEx are at the end of this message.*
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> *Abstract*
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> We digitize our images and sounds and texts in the expectation that this
> somehow provides these objects with immortality. Sadly, we may, instead, be
> creating a digital dark age in which our descendants will know nothing of
> our history and the products of our society. The physical media for digital
> storage may degrade; the ability to read the stored bits may be lost; the
> ability to correctly interpret the bits and render them or execute them may
> be lost. Operating systems, hardware and applications may no longer work
> for a variety of reasons. Companies and their proprietary software may go
> out of business and their products not work on computers in the future.
> Virtual machines and cloud computing may have a role to play but legal
> regimes and business models will also determine whether long-term
> preservation is feasible.
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> *About The Speaker*
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> *Dr. Vinton G. Cerf*
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> *Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist*
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> *Google*
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> Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.
> He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the
> Internet. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the
> co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet.
> He has served in executive positions at MCI, the Corporation for National
> Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and
> on the faculty of Stanford University.
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> Vint Cerf served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for
> Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007 and has been a Visiting
> Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. Cerf served as
> founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995.  Cerf is
> a Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Academy of
> Engineering, and Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the
> Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
> International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum, the
> British Computer Society, the Worshipful Company of Information
> Technologists, the Worshipful Company of Stationers and a member of the
> National Academy of Engineering.  He currently serves as Past President of
> the Association for Computing Machinery, chairman of the American Registry
> for Internet Numbers (ARIN) and completed a term as Chairman of the
> Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology for the US National Institute of
> Standards and Technology. President Obama appointed him to the National
> Science Board in 2012.
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> Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection
> with his work on the Internet, including the US Presidential Medal of
> Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for
> Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Tunisian National Medal of
> Science, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing
> Award, Officer of the Legion d’Honneur and 29 honorary degrees.  In
> December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year’s “25
> Most Intriguing People."
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> His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science
> fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two sons,
> David and Bennett.
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> *Instructions to join our meeting remotely using WebEx*
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> *------------------------------------------------------- *
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> *To join the online meeting *
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> *------------------------------------------------------- *
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> 1. Go to the following link:
> https://nitrd.webex.com/nitrd/j.php?MTID=m5ea93a125ebbde6e68e44b657afcd89b
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> 2. If requested, enter your name and email address.
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> 3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: 4873
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> 4. Click "Join".
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> If you are joining from a mobile device using the WebEx app:
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> Meeting number:            800811782
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> Meeting password:         4873
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> -------------------------------------------------------
> *To join the audio conference*
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> *Dial-in:* 1-866-829-0754
> *password:* 1285886
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> *You will be joined to the audio bridge in listen-only mode until Q&A is
> announced.*
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> *Participants joining from international locations will need to obtain a global access dial-in number by calling the NCO/NITRD,
> (703) 292-4873 in advance of the meeting.
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> If you have any questions, or would like to be removed from this
> distribution list, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
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> Best Regards,
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> Fouad Ramia
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> Video and Image Analytics Coordination Group Coordinator and
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> Faster Administration of Science and Technology
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>      Education and Research Community of Practice Coordinator (Contractor)
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> National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology R&D
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> (703) 292-8128
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> ramia at nitrd.gov
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