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Resilience is an increasingly important topic in the provision of digital services. Digital technology offers the prospect of '24/7' services, a model which can only be sustained through constant monitoring and planning to ensure continuity of service. Increasing demands on the networks, increasing concerns about security, and increasing economic and social consequences from their failure, makes resilience a pressing concern. Business continuity planning continually refines and extends these protections to ensure that the right services are supplied to the right people at the right time.
Digital preservation is part of resilience planning and shares a core set of concepts and practices with business continuity management. Both work towards robust data provision through processes of risk assessment, disaster planning, security-testing and on-going monitoring; both use replication and redundancy to mitigate or prevent data loss; and both require a detailed understanding of what information is where and who is allowed to access it. But because digital preservation and digital resilience are designed to combat different types of threat, there is a risk that they are not aligned as effectively – or as efficiently – as they could be. How might a digital preservation plan contribute to organisational resilience? How might business continuity management contribute to a long term information strategy?
This DPC briefing day will provide a forum for members to review and debate the latest development in business continuity management and how it aligns with digital preservation. Based on commentary and case studies from leaders in the field, participants will be presented with emerging policies, tools and technologies and will be encouraged to propose and debate new directions for research.
The day will include discussion of key topics such as:
- Intelligent enterprise risk management
- Disaster planning and disaster recovery
- Digital continuity
- Business processes and preservation
Who should come?
This day will be of interest to:
- Collections managers, curators and archivists in all institutions
- Data security and resilience planners
- Tools developers and policy makers in digital preservation and resilience planning
- Innovators, researchers and investors in information policy and management
- Innovators, researchers and funders in computing science
- Vendors and providers of digital preservation and continuity of business services
Provisional Programme (details subject to change and refinement
1030 Registration and Coffee
1100 Welcome and introductions (William Kilbride, DPC)
1105 Community-Wide Disasters: Community-Wide Response (Tom Clareson, Lyrasis)
1135 Business continuity planning and digital preservation (John Lindstrom, Lulea Technical University)
1205 Risk management and digital preservation (Angela Dappert, DPC)
1235 Question and answer
1245 Lunch
1330 Business processes and preservation: TIMBUS (Mykola Galushka, SAP)
1400 Digital Continuity – how breakfast cereals are saving digital information (Tim Callister and Rob Johnson, The National Archives)
1430 Question and answer
1440 Coffee
1500 Panel discussion: what digital preservation can do for resilience planning (and vice versa) (TBC)
1550 Wrap up and thanks (William Kilbride DPC)
1600 Close