Either date is fine with me.
Melinda
--On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:42 PM -0500 Daniel Pitti
<dpitti@virginia.edu> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have invited Heather MacNeil from the School of Library, Archival, and
> Information Studies, University of British Columbia, to visit Charlottesville
> to speak about "authenticity."
>
> Tentative dates for the visit are May 2-3 or May 16-17.
>
> PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE FOR ONE OR THE OTHER OF THESE
> DATES (OR FOR NEITHER). I want to make sure that a significant number of SDS
> staff will be present, in particular, John, Thorny, Ross, and Worthy, as we
> will want to share our SDS research with her.
>
> If you would like to know more about Heather:
> http://www.slais.ubc.ca/people/faculty/macneil/macneil.htm
>
> Her characterization of her research interests:
>
> "Authenticity is the quality of any document that refers to its integrity and
> the certainty of its purported identity. It follows that authentic documents
> are those whose integrity and identity can be proven. For documents created
> or stored in electronic form, ensuring authenticity means protecting their
> identity and integrity over time and across technologies.
>
> I am interested in exploring the concept of authenticity and the methods for
> protecting it from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and in relation to
> both administrative and cultural documents. As bureaucracies and scholars
> rely increasingly on electronic information and communication technologies to
> create, reproduce, and store documents, such exploration is vital to assess
> the adequacy of traditional methods and procedures and controls for verifying
> authenticity and to determine the need for, and nature of, new methods and
> procedures."
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> ----------
> Daniel V. Pitti Project Director
> Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
> Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia
> 22903 Phone: 434 924-6594 Fax: 434 982-2363 Email:
> dpitti@Virginia.edu http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu
> AREA CODE IS NEW EFFECTIVE JUNE 2001
>
Melinda Baumann
Director, Digital Library Production Services
University of Virginia Library
PO Box 400155
Charlottesville VA 22904-4155
baumann@virginia.edu (434) 243-8785
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