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Digital Resilience and Preservation

Title:: Digital Resilience and Preservation
When:: 21/05/2012 00:00 00:00
Where:: Wellcome Collection Conference Centre - London
Category:: Members only Briefing Day

Description

Digital Resilience and Preservation

21/05/2012 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, Euston Road, London.

Resilience is an increasingly important topic in the provision of digital services. Digital technology offers the prospect of ‘24/7’ services, a model which can only be sustained through constant monitoring and planning to ensure continuity of service. Increasing demands on the networks, increasing concerns about security, and increasing economic and social consequences from their failure, makes resilience a pressing concern. Business continuity planning continually refines and extends these protections to ensure that the right services are supplied to the right people at the right time.

Digital preservation is part of resilience planning and shares a core set of concepts and practices with business continuity management. Both work towards robust data provision through processes of risk assessment, disaster planning, security-testing and on-going monitoring; both use replication and redundancy to mitigate or prevent data loss; and both require a detailed understanding of what information is where and who is allowed to access it. But because digital preservation and digital resilience are designed to combat different types of threat, there is a risk that they are not aligned as effectively – or as efficiently – as they could be. How might a digital preservation plan contribute to organisational resilience? How might business continuity management contribute to a long term information strategy?

This DPC briefing day will provide a forum for members to review and debate the latest development in business continuity management and how it aligns with digital preservation. Based on commentary and case studies from leaders in the field, participants will be presented with emerging policies, tools and technologies and will be encouraged to propose and debate new directions for research.

The day will include discussion of key topics such as:

Intelligent enterprise risk management
Disaster planning and disaster recovery
Digital continuity
Business processes and preservation

Who should come?

This day will be of interest to:

Collections managers, curators and archivists in all institutions
Data security and resilience planners
Tools developers and policy makers in digital preservation and resilience planning
Innovators, researchers and investors in information policy and management
Innovators, researchers and funders in computing science
Vendors and providers of digital preservation and continuity of business services

Registration is now closed

Places are FREE to paid up DPC members and guests. Registration should be completed before Friday 11th May 2012. For details on how to become a DPC member see here.

Registration is now closed. For non-members registration costs of £250.00 (VAT exempt) per person. Please note payment terms described below: Full payment to be received in full before the event (by the 18th May 2012). N.B. There will be a £50.00 no show/cancellation fee if you do not notify us within one full week of the event date.

Please note that you will receive an automated confirmation on the webpage upon completion of registration. Five days before the event you will recieve a 'joining' email from the DPC Business Manager Carol Jackson This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it that will outline practical details of the day.

Payment

The DPC does not issue invoices for event booking and cannot process card payments. Events are free for our members who also have priority registration. So you can avoid paying by joining the DPC.

Preferred method of payment is by BACS electronic transfer to; Digital Preservation Coalition Sort Code: 40-47-31 Account number: 13851613 " N.B. Please reference the transfer with "Yoursurname_DPC event". If you do not reference your payment in this way we will be unable to trace and confirm your payment and place. Payment must be arranged at least one week before the event.
A cheque written out to Digital Preservation Coalition'. Please post to DPC, Innovation Centre, Science Park, Heslington, York YO10 5DG.
For payment in CASH on the day - please email written confirmation to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it that you wish to pay on the day.

Provisional Programme (details subject to change and refinement)

1030 Registration and Coffee
1100 Welcome and introductions (William Kilbride, DPC)
1105 Community-Wide Disasters: Community-Wide Response (Tom Clareson, Lyrasis)
1135 Business continuity planning and digital preservation (John Lindstrom, Lulea Technical University)
1205 Risk management and digital preservation (Angela Dappert, DPC)
1235 Question and answer
1245 Lunch
1330 Business processes and preservation: TIMBUS (Mykola Galushka, SAP)
1400 Digital Continuity – how breakfast cereals are saving digital information (Tim Callister and Rob Johnson, The National Archives)
1430 Question and answer
1440 Coffee
1500 Panel discussion: what digital preservation can do for resilience planning (and vice versa) (TBC)
1550 Wrap up and thanks (William Kilbride DPC)
1600 Close