DPC

The DPC, the British Library, the Archives and Records Association, IRMS, Ex Libris and Arkivum pleased to invite students and researchers in archives, records management and librarianship to a one day conference on practical workplace skills in digital preservation. Organised in partnership with the Universities of Aberystwyth, Dundee, and University College London, and with sponsorship from the Archives and Records Association, Ex Libris and Arkivum, this conference will bring a select group of leading practitioners together with the next generation of archivists, records managers and librarians to discuss the challenges of digital collections management and digital preservation. The day will open with a consideration of digital preservation basics and a scan of emerging trends in digital preservation. In the afternoon, a group of invited speakers will be invited to reflect on 'the things they wish they knew before they started', or 'what I actually do all day' giving students an advantage in their own career development and helping those who frame the curriculum a chance to extend their students' readiness for the workplace.

This conference will:

• Provide participants with a core grounding in applied digital preservation
• Provide an overview of emerging trends in digital preservation
• Present practical examples of the sorts skills that employers are looking from in staff working in digital preservation
• Present role models of practitioners whose careers have taken them to leading positions in digital preservation
• Allow students and their tutors to question practitioners about their day-to-day work and the skills that they reply upon

This day will be of interest to:

• Students and recent graduates in library and archive schools
• Students and recent graduates in information management and records management
• Tutors, lecturers and course convenors in library and archive schools, or who teach records management or information governance
• Innovators, vendors and commentators on digital preservation and cognate fields
• Employers seeking to understand the skills needed to operate digital preservation facilities or seeking to recruit new entrants

Programme

1000 Registration Opens

1030 Session One: Getting Started with Digital Preservation

• Welcome and Introduction
• An Introduction Digital Preservation Sharon McMeekin, DPC
• Top 5 Technologies for Digital Archivists Lucie Burgess, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University
• Bit Preservation: Opportunities and Burdens Matthew Addis, Arkivum
• An Introduction to IRMS Fiona Kearney, IRMS
• ARA: Introduction to Section for Archives and Technology
  
• Q&A

1230 Lunch

1330 Session Two: What I Wish I Knew Before I Started

• Helen Hockx-Yu, British Library
• Adrian Brown, Parliamentary Archives
• Deon Cotgrove, BBC - Video Shown on BBC Digitisation Programme
• Dave Thomson, Wellcome Collection

1445 Tea and Coffee

1515 Round Table: Working at Digital Preservation

1600 Thanks and Close

The 4C (Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation) Project and the DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition) invite you to join them for a two day conference exploring the long term value and sustainability of digital objects.

The 4C Project is an EC-funded initiative that is helping organisations across Europe to invest more effectively in digital curation and preservation. Research in digital preservation and curation has tended to emphasize the cost and complexity of the task in hand. 4C reminds us that the point of this investment is to realise a benefit, so our research must encompass related concepts such as ‘risk’, ‘value’, ‘quality’ and ‘sustainability’. In this major international conference the project will present its major findings and invite a distinguished panel of experts to review and consider the implications of their work.

Working jointly with the membership of the DPC, the conference will compare the strategic economic aspirations of funders and policy makers against the practical experience of digital preservation, including perspectives from practitioners, vendors and users of digit preservation services. It will identify emerging best practice and will provide a forum for needs and practical requirements to be articulated.

Participants will be invited to review key 4C Project deliverables, considering the implications of these resources and providing the opportunity to shape these to suit community needs before they are submitted to the European Commission. In particular participants will have a final chance to influence the soon to be published Digital Curation Roadmap.

Final Conference Programme - Days 1 and 2

Day One - Introduction and Keynote

Day One - 4C Roadmap

Day Two - Introduction and Keynote

Day Two - Curation Costs Exchange