NDF conference 2009 - call for contributors

The call for contributors at the 2009 National Digital Forum conference has opened. The 2009 conference is being held in Wellington at Te Papa on 23-24 November.

The conference organising committee is seeking:

• people to give short kick-off presentations for forum sessions
• facilitators for forum sessions
• presenters for demonstrations

Forum sessions

These 90 minute sessions are designed to get attendees talking. Each forum session will start with two or three short presentations related to a particular topic, and then move into a facilitated group discussion.

Topics likely to be of interest include (but aren't limited to):

• Where do we stand now on issues of intellectual property, Creative Commons and copyright? How does licensing impact on commercial imperatives?
• How do we preserve and encourage the appropriate sharing of indigenous knowledge and Mātauranga Māori in digitisation and online activities?
• What are the issues and opportunities surrounding digital repatriation?
• Should we prioritise access or preservation when planning digitisation projects?
• What does the education sector want from us, and how can we get it to them?
• How can we balance privacy and access in the online world?
• What do we need to be doing to face the geo-future (geo-tagging, geo-caching, geo-data)?

You might like to work with other people to submit a proposal for an entire forum session, or submit an individual proposal and work with the conference committee to build a session.

Expressions of interest are also invited from people keen to help out by facilitating a session. Alternatively, if you know someone who'd make an awesome facilitator, why not nominate them?

Demonstrations

These 30 minute sessions are designed for more relaxed presentations about projects, products, websites or applications. They are an opportunity for presenters to describe what they've have been up to, what they've have achieved, and share lessons they've learned.

More information

The call for contributors closes on 11 May 2009. You can get more information about the conference theme and presentation formats, and download the Presentation Submission form, on the NDF website.

I'm on the 2009 conference committee, so if you have questions or want to bounce some ideas around before submitting a proposal, please feel free to get in touch: courtney DOT johnston AT natlib.govt.nz