As part of dissemination activities the SHAMAN Project was presented during the Fall meeting in San Francisco by Ruben Riestra (Inmark), Project coordinator, and Prof. Dr.-Ing Matthias Hemmje (Fern Universitat of Hagen).

Fall meeting reached about 170 attendees and gathered academicians, technologists, librarians, and storage architects from around the world to discuss best practices and solve challenges in 21st Century archiving. The conclusion of this meeting was that “with the close collaboration of leading educational and library institutions, the world's valuable research, audio-visual content, and cultural heritage materials can be preserved and more widely and safely shared. But much remains to be done to address issues in this evolving field.”

SUN-PASIG is the SUN Preservation and Archival Interest Group, led by Sun Microsystems, gather Sun market, product experts and PASIG members in a jointly manner, in order to set out baseline technology trends for the group. Fall meeting presentations comprised themes such as practical architectures for Digital Preservation, and discussed about needs and challenges in the areas of data curation, data management of eScience content, preservation, repositories, and storage technologies.

More information at http://lib.stanford.edu/files/pasig2009sf/pasig2009sf_shaman_intro.pdf (Part I) and http://lib.stanford.edu/files/pasig2009sf/pasig2009sf_shaman_rtd.pdf (Part II)