EVALUATION BY PARTICIPANTS

Participants at the seminar were asked to complete an evaluation form. Completed forms were received from approximately 60% of the audience. Sessions were rated on a scale of 1-5 and are scored from a maximum of 100 overall. General comments on the session are included below. Specific positive or negative comments on individual presentations if any are being provided to individual speakers only.

Overall
96% of participants said the event met or exceeded their expectations (one wanted more on the OAIS model).
"excellently informative meeting", "very impressive range of speakers of first quality", "The DPC performs a key important role", "appreciated cross-sectoral approach", "thought-provoking meeting", "lets face it this is not a sexy subject but an essential one !", "very useful forum for cross-disciplinary linkage", "held my attention all day", "enjoyable day", "lots of issues raised and would be useful to sift though these in the report on the event", "pleased I came", very interesting day".

Session 1 The OAIS Reference Model and Digital Archive Certification (85/100)
"in a difficult area they maintained ethusiasm and kept audience involved and awake", "key area, very interesting high-level stuff", "Great admiration of the OAIS speakers", "good clear presentations", " perhaps assumed knowledge of subject"

Session 2 Data Curation and the Grid (82/100)
"fascinating concepts", "cutting edge, super", "very interesting how clearly many of the quintessential aspects of digital archiving came out", "topic and quality of speakers outweighed some of the less on-topic presentations", "fascinating initiative", "seemed least integrated into the seminar as a whole", "some information overload", "excellent, fascinating to hear different perspectives"

Session 3 Curation of Digital Collections (87/100)
"the most informative session", "entertaining finish to the day", "lessons learnt from practical experience are invaluable", "very good, enjoyable speakers"

Booking and Administration of Event (89/100)
"colour coding of session papers was inspired !"

Accomodation and Facilities ((82/100)

Food and Service (78/100) 
"no coffee at lunch", no problems", biscuits with coffee would have been nice", "more space for lunch venue would have been better"