Providing Access to Digital Records

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This event will focus on the various ways of providing access to records, what options are available, how to plan for access and how to provide it in a way that best suits your organisation.

Programme (Times in UTC)

• 13:00 - 13:10 - Introduction and Welcome

• 13:10 - 13:40 - Access unlocked: because content restriction is so last season - Roxana Maurer, Bibliothèque Nationale du Luxembourg

The National Library of Luxembourg (BnL) has been making its digitized collections available on eluxemburgensia.lu for more than 20 years, but born-digital content has reached the platform only in the past 2 years. This short presentation will have a look at the myriad of steps taken by the BnL in order to improve access to born-digital collections: new cataloguing rules for electronic resources, automatic synchronisation of metadata between systems, mapping of copyright and access rights information to interface functionality, redesign of access platform. All while taking into account the challenges brought by born-digital content in terms of volume and heterogeneity.

• 13:40 - 14:10 - Access - The Ultimate Goal - Helen Dafter, The Postal Museum

An overview of how The Postal Museum is using the Preservica Portal to provide access to its born digital collections. The talk will cover the work we have taken to get to this stage, our current position, and future plans.

• 14:10 - 14:20 - Break

• 14:20 - 14:40 - Providing Access to the BFI National Archive’s Digital Collection: Avenues and Challenges - Lucy Wales, BFI

This case study explores the ways in which the BFI provides access to its audiovisual digital collection, held in the BFI National Archive, and examines some of the challenges involved in making that access possible. 

• 14:40 - 15:00 - Digital Collections and Access for Disabled Users - Dr Maria Castrillo Llamas, Imperial War Museums and Dr Ann-Marie Foster, Imperial War Museums/Robert Gordon University

How can we make our digital collections more accessible? For disabled, chronically ill, and/or neurodivergent users, how we present our digital collections is the difference between easy access and items that cannot be accessed. Drawing on work from the 'Accessible Pasts, Equitable Futures' project at Imperial War Museums, we unpick barriers and propose potential solutions. 

• 15:00 - End

Recordings

All presentations will be recorded and made available to DPC Members and Supporters via this web page after the event (login to DPC website required).

Recordings will also be shared with non-members who pay to attend the event.

Please note – DPC Members do not need to register in order to access the recordings after the event.

Registration

Registration is open to all, with free places for DPC Members or DPC Supporters and £250 for non-Members. Full Members may register 5 attendees and Associate Members may register 1 attendee for this event. DPC Members can claim their free place by entering the promotional code DPCMEMBER. DPC Supporters can claim their free place by entering the promotional code DPCSUPP. Any additional attendees can attend for a charge of £250.

Registration will close 48 hours before the event starts. If you wish to register after registration has closed, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org

DPC events rely on having minimum numbers to run successfully and effectively. Low numbers may mean events are not viable and will need to be cancelled, so please check that you can attend before booking.

If you register for this event and find that you can no longer attend, you are welcome to send a colleague in your place. If you need to cancel, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org with the event name. If cancelling please try to provide more than 48 hours’ notice before the scheduled event time, otherwise a cancellation fee of £50 may apply.

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.