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A series of Roadshows organised by the Society of Archives and sponsored by Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), The National Archives (TNA) and CyMAL are being held across the UK and Ireland in 2009-2010 to raise awareness of digital preservation tools and techniques.

  • Gloucester, 29th April 2009
  • York, 26th June 2009
  • London,  19th August 2009
  • Edinburgh, 28th October 2009
  • Dublin, 26th November 2009
  • Manchester, 10th December 2009
  • Aberystwyth, 22nd January 2010

  • Cardiff, 15th February 2010

    These events have raised awareness of the issues associated with digital preservation and demonstrated that there are solutions that don’t involve spending large amounts of money, and have shown how to take the first, incremental steps in this field.

    The delegate fee for non-members was £75 however free places were available for the Society of Archivists or the Digital Preservation Coalition members.

Programme and presentations from the Gloucester Roadshow (via Society of Archivists Website)
Programme and presentations from the York Roadshow:

10:00-10:30 Registration & Coffee
10:30-10:35 Welcome
Martin Taylor, Chair, Northern Region, Society of Archivists

10:35-11:05

 Managing information for the long term [PDF 560KB]
Malcolm Todd, Digital Archives Advice Manager, The National Archives
11:05-11:30 Introducing the DPC [PDF 2.8MB]
William Kilbride, DPC Executive Director
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:15 Tools: DROID/PRONOM and preservation planning [PDF 825KB]
Alison Heatherington, Digital Archives Analyst, The National Archives
12:15-12:45 Case study: Enabling digital preservation through an institutional repository: the REMAP project [PDF 2.3MB]
Chris Awre, Hull University
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:15 Case study: OASIS: accessing archaeological grey literature on line [PDF 1.9MB]
Catherine Hardman, Collections Development Manager, The Archaeology Data Service
14:15-14:45 Case study: the MLA Yorkshire archive [PDF 1.7MB]
Alex Eveleigh, Collections Manager, West Yorkshire Archive Services
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-15.30 Funding: academic sector partnerships [PDF 3.5MB]
Neil Grindley, Digital Preservation Programme Manager, JISC
15.30-16:30 Break-out groups: checksums, file formats and risk management
16:30 Final questions and close
  • Programme and presentations from the London Roadshow (via Society of Archivists Website)
  • Programme and presentations from the Edinburgh Roadshow (via Society of Archivists Website)
  • Programme and presentations from the Dublin Roadshow (via Society of Archivists Website)
  • Programme and presentations from the Manchester Roadshow (via Society of Archivists Website)
  • Programme and presentations from the Aberystwyth Roadshow
  • Programme and presentations from the Cardiff Roadshow
  • Review of the Roadshows (via Ariadne)