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The Digital Preservation Coalition and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland invite you to join them at a workshop to explore the preservation of 3d laser scan data: Edinburgh 1st May 2013 

• http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/58-3d-laser-scanning?xref=63

Current best practice guidance for the long term preservation of 3D laser scan data, in particular the required metadata is found to be onerous by data creators. This workshop will bring together leading practitioners from the archaeological community, alongside leading data archivists and software suppliers in the UK and Ireland to work towards agreeing a new metadata standard to facilitate preservation. This event will allow for communication between archivists, creators and purveyors of software and hardware for laser scanning, as well as equipment manufacturers.  The aim is to ensure that the export of metadata is much simpler and more convenient for users.

The Digital Preservation Coalition is pleased to offer three fully funded scholarships to attend the Digital Preservation Training Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 20th–22nd May 2013.

The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is designed for all those working in institutional information management who are grappling with fundamental issues of digital preservation. It provides the skills and knowledge necessary for institutions to combine organisational and technological perspectives and devise an appropriate response to the challenges that digital preservation needs present. DPTP is operated and organised by the University of London Computer Centre with contributions from invited experts. It is supported by the Digital Preservation Coalition which originally helped to establish the course in 2005.

The EC has launched a new project to help organizations invest confidently in digital curation and preservation.

4C - ‘the Collaboration to Clarify the Costs of Curation’ – brings together 13 agencies in 7 different countries so that organizations can approach their investment in data curation and preservation with greater certainty and with greater clarity about what they’ll get back in return.

DPC and the British Library Preservation Advisory Centre are pleased to report that, with the help of the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), we’ve been able to add another date to the popular ‘Getting Started in Digital Preservation’ Roadshow. We’ll be stopping at PRONI's offices in in Belfast on 10th July.

http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/56-getting-started-in-digital-preservation?xref=64

The 'Getting Started in Digital Preservation' workshop in Glasgow on 10th April is now fully booked, as is the workshop in London on 13th May.  A few places are still available at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth on 6th June. 

DPC members are cordially invited to attend a briefing day on the topic of preservation metadata, to be held at the Pullman Hotel, Euston Road London on April 23rd.  Spaces are limited and because this event will likely be popular, DPC members are invited to register before we open it to the public.

Registration is now open for the DPC's next briefing day - 'Preservation Metadata: (almost) everything you wanted to know about PREMIS and METS but were too scared to  ask' - in London on the 23rd April

Informal notes and presentations from the DPC's recent briefing day on the new PDF/A3 standard are now available online. 

The Digital Preservation Coalition is delighted to offer members a preview of our latest Technology Watch Report ‘Web Archiving'.

'The World Wide Web is a unique information resource of massive scale, explains Maureen Pennock the report's author, 'yet the lasting legacy of the web is at risk, threatened in part by the very speed at which it has become a success. Content is lost at an alarming rate, risking not just our digital cultural memory but also issues of organizational accountability.  In recognition of this threat, organizations have invested heavily in developing and implementing a range of web archiving solutions.' 

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce that it has awarded eight scholarships so that members can attend the Digital Preservation Training Programme in London at the start of March.

'These scholarships are very popular.  Specialist training is hard to find and staff development budgets are being tightly squeezed’, explained Richard Ovenden, Chair of the DPC. ‘We received a record number of applications this round, so we decided that we should try to respond to our members’ need by offering the largest numbers of scholarships so far.  It’s a measure of our commitment to the workforce and it will have an impact across a wide range of institutions.’