Digital Preservation Coalition

Joint DPC/DCC Forum - Policies for Digital Curation and Preservation

Date: 03 July - 04 July 2006
Venue: Wolfson College, University of Oxford

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Digital Curation Centre (DCC) delivered a two-day workshop to explore the range of policies required to manage, preserve, and reuse the information held within digital repositories over time. This event was co-sponsored by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and held at Wolfson College at the University of Oxford on 3rd and 4th of July, 2006.

Developing and implementing a range of policies is vital for enabling the effective management, discovery, and re-usability of information held within digital repositories. This workshop provided concrete examples of the range and nature of the policies required and shared real-life experiences in implementing these policies through a series of case studies and panel discussions.

Monday July 3rd, 2006

Setting the Scene

• Digital information life-cycles and policies (PDF 31KB)
  David Ryan, Director of Records, The Royal Household
• Data Sharing and Curation Policies across the UK Research Councils (PDF 56KB)
  Mark Thorley, NERC

Session One: This session explored issues including: roles and responsibilities in developing policies, relationships with other institutional policies, workflow issues, key themes of specific policies, problems encountered during development.

• Developing the NERC Data Policy (PDF 382KB)
  Mark Thorley, NERC
• Developing a digital preservation strategy (PDF 173KB)
  Heather Needham, HRO
• TNA's custody of digital records policy (PDF 116KB)
  Malcolm Todd, TNA
• Digital repositories and Grids (PDF 1.2 MB)
  Bob Jones, CERN

Tuesday July 4th, 2006

Session Two: Implementating Curation and Preservation Policies

• Ingest at the Archaeology Data Service: a case study (PDF 3.3MB)
  Jennifer Mitcham, Archaeological Data Services (ADS)
• Implementing selection and appraisal policies at the UK Data Archive (PDF 41KB)
  Kevin Schurer, UKDA
• The Case of the Disappearing Documents: the Capture and Curation of Current University Records (PDF 245KB)
  Susan Graham, Records Manager, the University of Edinburgh

Session Three: Evaluating and Reviewing Curation and Preservation Policies

• The public consultation process for Operational Selection Policies (PDF 108KB)
  Howard Davies, TNA
• Preserving, Sharing and Re-using Biomedical Research Data: Policy and Practice (PDF 245KB)
  Allan Sudlow, Medical research council (MRC)