Introduction

Computer-aided design tools are widely used to assist engineers, architects, designers and cartographers to develop, represent, capture and transmit large and complex representations of the world – real and imagined. Diverse in application, a great deal of vital, valuable and irreplaceable information is stored in CAD models, from the designs of aircraft carriers and skyscrapers to records of archaeological excavations. It also means that CAD is an area of constant innovation and intense competition between vendors, resulting in CAD systems that are ephemeral and largely incompatible with each other. It is the disconnect between these two – the value of the models and the ephemeral nature of the systems – that makes CAD preservation at once important and challenging.

The Digital Preservation Coalition first addressed this topic in July 2010, inviting expert practitioners to share their concerns and aspirations for long term management of CAD systems at an invitation Briefing Day called ‘Designed to Last’. Since then we have commissioned Alex Ball of DCC – one of the keynote speakers - to provide a Technology Watch Report that distils and updates latest thinking on the topic.

This DPC briefing day anticipates the launch of that report, and will allow participants to reflect on new and emerging challenges. Leaders in the field will be invited to foreground their own work and their practical concerns about preservation. Recent case studies will be presented and speakers will be invited to consider emerging and future trends. Participants will be invited to reflect on their own needs and an extended discussion will follow.

Participants at this workshop will:

• Have an advanced introduction to issues of preserving CAD
• Be updated on the latest developments in standards for preservation of CAD
• Hear case studies that put the standards into practice and the issues that have resulted
• Have an opportunity to discuss their own concerns with developers behind the standards and practitioners already working with them
• Examine the place and value of CAD collections within wider digital collections management
• Be encouraged to contribute to the development of standards and tools
• Meet others preserving or considering the preservation of CAD within their own preservation architectures

Who should come?

This meeting will be of interest to:

• Records managers and information officers in organisation in sectors where CAD is used
• Regulators in sectors where CAD is widely used such as engineering, aviation
• Risk managers, executives and chief information officers seeking to minimise information risk or maximise information potential
• Collections managers, librarians, curators and archivists in all institutions
• Tools developers and policy makers in digital preservation
• Innovators and researchers in information technology, especially with vector graphics and documentation
• Vendors and providers of services for preservation, records management and forensics
• Innovators, vendors and commentators on digital preservation and cognate fields
• Analysts seeking to develop tools and approaches for longer term information management

Programme for the Day - 26^th July, Christopher Hilton Room, IMechE, One Birdcage Walk, London

10.00 - Registration and Coffee
10.30 - Welcome and introductions - William Kilbride, DPC
10.35 - Preserving CAD: an overview 
11.15 - Data lifecycles for CAD from field to archive: Case Study 1
11.45 - Preserving CAD: Case Study 2 
12.15 - Q+A (chaired by William Kilbride)

12.30 - Lunch

13.30 - Preserving CAD:  emerging trends 
14.00 - Preserving CAD: emerging trends in architecture
14.30 - Preserving CAD: emerging trends 

15.00 - Tea and Coffee

15.30 - Roundtable
16.30 - Thanks and Close

How to register?

Places are strictly limited and should be booked in advance.

Priority will be given to DPC members: full members are invited to send up to five delegates and associates are invited to send one each. 

Non-members are welcome at a cost of £250 pounds per person, or may wish to consider joining the DPC prior to the event, and this should be paid by PayPal, or in cash or cheque on the day and receipts will be provided. Cheques can be posted in advance if made payable to ‘DPC’ and delivered one week before the event to DPC, Innovation Centre, Science Park, Heslington, York YO10 5DG, UK.

Registration will close one week before the event and early booking is recommended as we expect these events will be popular.

To see a list of current DPC members see: http://www.dpconline.org/members/list-of-members

To join the DPC and attend for free see: http://www.dpconline.org/join-us

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