Events Calendar
DPC Annual Members Unconference and Networking Event 2023 (UK)
We are delighted to invite DPC Members to attend our DPC’s Annual Members’ Unconference and Networking Event in London!
This UK-based event will take place face-to-face over two days and will form part of a worldwide program of Member networking activities which aims to offer events in locations in other parts of the world as scheduling permits (details to follow in due course).
The DPC Members’ Unconference will run alongside the DPC Board and Executive Council Meetings planned for the same dates in London* and is an opportunity to meet and network with other members of the Coalition, exchange ideas and updates on your work, as well as to help shape the DPC’s own activities for the coming year.
Each day we will have an exciting program of fast-paced member led talks and discussions, giving you the opportunity to take the floor and exchange ideas, showcase work and discuss key themes.
*Given the nature of the activities, we do not plan to offer online attendance at this event but aim to provide written highlights.
Who is the event for?
The Annual DPC Members’ Unconference is for DPC Members only and designed to privilege operational staff working directly on digital preservation. We are particularly keen to hear from three groups:
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Junior staff recently appointed and looking for opportunities to build their professional networks;
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New entrants to digital preservation seeking to apply professional know-how to this new field;
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Experienced practitioners who might not normally attend the DPC Board but have clear insights into the challenges of digital preservation in their own institutions and are well placed to steer the DPC's practical program.
Senior staff, researchers and students are also welcome, though it is practical knowledge exchange that will be most prominent.
Preliminary Program*
We’ve gathered all of your suggestions for sessions and we are excited to share our preliminary program for this years' DPC Annual Member Unconference and Networking Event.
Day 1: Thursday 22nd June 2023
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Plenary / Parallel Stream 1 |
Parallel Stream 2 |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Registration and Coffee on arrival |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Welcome to Unconference: |
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11:00 – 11:45 |
Updating a Digital Preservation Policy as new Digital Archivists - Jumping in at the Deep End Jennifer Pearson and Katie Kettle, HSBC We are looking to share our experience of updating and implementing our Digital Preservation Policy on our new upgraded digital archive system, including our processes and the assorted challenges and mysteries we are finding along the way. Session type: SHARE |
Helen Dafter, The Postal Museum The Postal Museum has recently used CAT to undertake an assessment of the current skills of the collections team. This session will share experiences of using the toolkit and reflect on some anonymized results. Session type: SHARE |
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11:45 – 12:00 |
move to next session |
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12:00 – 12:45 |
Digital Preservation Storage Strategies: 3-2-1 vs 'the Cloud' Somaya Langley, Science Museum Group What premises remain true to today, what needs to change, and what should we do away with entirely? Session type: DISCUSS |
DPC Reading Club Jenny Mitcham, DPC If you are intending on attending this session, please read the article before the event and come along ready to discuss your thoughts. For this Reading Club session we would like to discuss an article by Lise Jalliant 'More Data, Less Process: A User-Centered Approach to Email and Born-Digital Archives' during the Unconference. This session would provide a place for a friendly chat about the text with other members of the community to share thoughts and observations. Session type: DISCUSS |
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12:45 – 14:00 |
Lunch and networking |
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14:00 – 14:45 |
Plenary session |
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14:45 – 15:00 |
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15:00 – 15:45 |
How can games be fun and educational? Sean Macmillan, Kings College London In the past few months, I and a couple of others have organized a series of digital preservation related board game events and it has been both fun and educational. The main purpose of this session will be to talk about the sort of games we have designed with the opportunity to give some of them a chance of trying them out. There will also be option for people to make suggestions and recommendations. Session type: DISCUSS |
Musical Debaters Panagiotis Papageorgiou, International College Portsmouth For this approx. 35-min game session, the attendees will first learn the three basic components of a solid argument before participating in a game. The aim of the game is to break the taboos over certain arguments around digital preservation. Additionally, the participants will have the opportunity to practice arguing in a civilized and relaxed manner, exchanging good practices adopted in their working environments. Further, they will learn how to reach a conclusion after being involved in a meaningful conversation and/or accept that they agree to disagree. Finally, the debaters will hopefully reach a consensus on some of the mooted digital preservation-related subjects. Session type: PLAY |
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15:45 – 16:00 |
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16:00 – 16:45 |
DPC Staff-Led Session |
Using Preservation Package Specifications Thomas Edvardsen and Johannes Karlsen, National Library of Norway There are several different specifications for structuring content in preservation packages. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using such? Examples can be DILCIS (E-Ark) Specification and Cinema Preservation Package (CPP), as well as BagIt and OCFL. Session type: DISCUSS |
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16:45 – 17:30 |
Summarize and close for day |
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Evening activity:
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Day 2: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Plenary / Parallel Stream 1 |
Parallel Stream 2 |
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09:30 – 09:45 |
Coffee on arrival |
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09:45 – 10:00 |
Welcome back |
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10:00 – 10:45 |
DPC Staff-Led Session |
Digital Preservation and Cybersecurity: happily coexisting Somaya Langley, Science Museum Group What should Digital Preservationists be learning and what should we be teaching to our Cybersecurity colleagues? In this session we will be seeking out small practical steps... Session Type: DISCUSS |
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10:45 – 11:00 |
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11:00 – 11:45 |
A digital archive as a shared service Quincy Oeyen, Flemish Government - Digital Archives Flanders The Flemish government has set up a digital archive as a shared service. Digital Archives Flanders provides various platforms to all authorities in Flanders (both central and local authorities). During this session, we will discuss the shared service set-up and briefly look at our platforms. We will also discuss the challenges this type of set-up poses. Session type: SHARE |
Bryony Hooper, University of Sheffield When tasked with setting key performance indicators for a service - what should we use to demonstrate impact of a digital preservation service/our work?
Session type: DISCUSS |
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11:45 – 12:00 |
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12:00 – 12:45 |
Paul Stokes, Jisc Assigning “numbers” to all things digital is becoming increasingly important, especially when making the case for funding. In this session I propose to try and pin down what are the most important/useful Numbers people wish to know, how they might make comparisons between different number information sources, and what tools are “out there”. Spoiler alert: A revamping of the 4C Curation Costs Exchange and Cost Comparison tool might get a mention… Session type: DISCUSS |
Storing Metadata Separate from Content Thomas Edvardsen and Johannes Karlsen, National Library of Norway Join us for an open dialogue where we discuss the idea of storing metadata separately from the content to make it easier to find, retrieve and update digital objects in the Digital Preservation Service (DPS). Can a separate metadata store serve as the foundation for generating digital object metadata files (METS/PREMIS), that are stored together with the content? We invite you to share your experiences and perspectives. Session type: DISCUSS |
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12:45 – 13:15 |
Summarize, thanks and close |
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*subject to change
Event Attendees: please login to let us know which sessions you intend to attend
How does it work?
Member-led sessions
Whether you have a task you want to work on with others, a fresh idea or solution you want to demo, or topics you want to discuss to learn from others’ experience, this part of the program provides a space for you to achieve all of this. Members have been invited to make suggestions for member-led sessions, from which we have populated the program for this event! Each session will offer approximately 45 minutes to either:
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Discuss: Pick the collective digital preservation hive mind and start a discussion about a topic
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Learn: Demonstrate and share solutions or workflows so that others can learn from your experiences.
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Share: Show and tell presentations of recent work, new ideas and achievements (or failures)
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Play: Share and lead a digital preservation games session!
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DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy
The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.
Event Location: London
London
EC4A 1BW