Conference on digital preservation

Decoding the digital: a common language for preservation

A Digital Preservation Coalition and Preservation Advisory Centre
joint conference, exploring communication and promoting interaction
between librarians, archivists and digital preservation managers.

British Library Conference Centre
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB, United Kingdom
Tuesday 27 July 2010

This one day conference seeks to build on the communication between
librarians, archivists, curators, conservators and digital
preservation managers, and establish a shared understanding of the
issues surrounding the preservation of digital collections.

What are the similarities in our approach to the preservation of
physical and digital collections, and where do the differences lie?
The programme features pairs of speakers talking about the creation,
management, preservation and use of digital collections. One speaker
from each pair explores how use and access shapes approaches to
digital preservation, and the other looks at the same issue from the
technological perspective. The conference provides an introduction
to digital preservation issues for the uninitiated and encourages
those involved in the technology supporting digital preservation to
learn how collections are developed and used.

Programme

    09.30       Registration
    10.00       Welcome
    10.15       A user's-eye view of digital content creation -
                Aly Conteh, British Library
    10.40       Formats and standards for digital content
                Stephen Gray, JISC
    11.20       Break
    11.40       Same as it ever was: significant properties and the
                preservation of meaning through time
                Gareth Knight, CeRch
    12.05       Using the Data Assessment Framework
                Catherine Ward, University of Cambridge
    13.00       Lunch
    13.45       Cutting the beast down to size: the role of risk
                evaluation in determining preservation strategies
                Richard Blake, TNA
    14.10       Preservation in practice - what are the options? A
                case study
                Alexandra Eveleigh, UCL
    15.00       What users want - Michael Jubb, RIN
    15.25       Frameworks for e-content - Neil Grindley, JISC
    15.50       Discussion
    16.30       Close

Cost UKP50 + VAT (GBP) (including refreshments).

To book please visit:  <URL:http://www.bl.uk/blpac/digital.html>

A number of sponsored places are available to DPC members.

Members wishing to take advantage of one of these places should
email DPC (info<-at->dpconline<.>org) by 20 July 2010.

Caroline Peach
Preservation Advisory Centre
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
United Kingdom


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