The DPC, the British Library, the Archives and Records Association, IRMS, Ex Libris and Arkivum pleased to invite students and researchers in archives, records management and librarianship to a one day conference on practical workplace skills in digital preservation. Organised in partnership with the Universities of Aberystwyth, Dundee, and University College London, and with sponsorship from the Archives and Records Association, Ex Libris and Arkivum, this conference will bring a select group of leading practitioners together with the next generation of archivists, records managers and librarians to discuss the challenges of digital collections management and digital preservation. The day will open with a consideration of digital preservation basics and a scan of emerging trends in digital preservation. In the afternoon, a group of invited speakers will be invited to reflect on 'the things they wish they knew before they started', or 'what I actually do all day' giving students an advantage in their own career development and helping those who frame the curriculum a chance to extend their students' readiness for the workplace.
This conference will:
- Provide participants with a core grounding in applied digital preservation
- Provide an overview of emerging trends in digital preservation
- Present practical examples of the sorts skills that employers are looking from in staff working in digital preservation
- Present role models of practitioners whose careers have taken them to leading positions in digital preservation
- Allow students and their tutors to question practitioners about their day-to-day work and the skills that they reply upon
This day will be of interest to:
- Students and recent graduates in library and archive schools
- Students and recent graduates in information management and records management
- Tutors, lecturers and course convenors in library and archive schools, or who teach records management or information governance
- Innovators, vendors and commentators on digital preservation and cognate fields
- Employers seeking to understand the skills needed to operate digital preservation facilities or seeking to recruit new entrants
Programme
1000 Registration Opens
1030 Session One: Getting Started with Digital Preservation
- Welcome and Introduction
- An Introduction Digital Preservation Sharon McMeekin, DPC
- Top 5 Technologies for Digital Archivists Lucie Burgess, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University
- Bit Preservation: Opportunities and Burdens Matthew Addis, Arkivum
- An Introduction to IRMS Fiona Kearney, IRMS
- ARA: Introduction to Section for Archives and Technology
- Q&A
1230 Lunch
1330 Session Two: What I Wish I Knew Before I Started
- Helen Hockx-Yu, British Library
- Adrian Brown, Parliamentary Archives
- Deon Cotgrove, BBC - Video Shown on BBC Digitisation Programme
- Dave Thomson, Wellcome Collection
1445 Tea and Coffee
1515 Round Table: Working at Digital Preservation
1600 Thanks and Close