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Wellcome Library and Digital Curation Centre Joint Workshop on
Future-proofing Institutional Websites
January 19-20, 2006
Wellcome Library
London
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/fpw-2006/

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http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/fpw-2006/fpw_programme_2006.pdf


The Digital Curation Centre and the Wellcome Library are pleased to announce
that they will be delivering a two-day workshop on future-proofing
institutional websites. This event will be held at the Wellcome Library in
London on 19–20 of January
2006.

Institutional websites have become an increasingly integral tool for
disseminating key institutional information and for promoting institutional
identities to the general public. The long-term survival, value, and
usability of the information presented via institutional websites depends on
numerous criteria such as the formats and codes selected for presentation,
the capture and binding of associated metadata, the identification of the
web resources, and the perceived quality of the web resources among current
and future users.

This event will focus on practical tools and techniques that can help to
ensure that institutional websites are future-proofed against risks such as
institutional change and technological obsolescence. In particular, this
event will examine appraisal processes, formats for curation and
preservation, international curation and preservation activity, and specific
experiences via a series of case studies.

Benefits of Attendance
The workshop will be of benefit to institutions who are in the process of
implementing or managing an institutional website.

Dates
This workshop will be held on Thursday, January 19th and Friday, January
20th 2006.

Format
The workshop will be delivered over three sessions — international activity,
practical tools and techniques, and selected use cases. Each session will be
chaired by a leading expert on the topic. The chair will begin the session
by placing the topic into the context of digital curation and provide
references to international efforts in the area. Following this
introduction, each session will highlight specific tools and techniques,
practical experiences and/or emerging standards in the form of
presentations. Each session will conclude with an open question period which
will be moderated by the session chair.

Key themes include:
· Overview of international curation and preservation activities
· Tools and techniques to create and persistently identify website content
for curation and preservation
· Examples of real-life experiences in web archiving

Programme Committee
· Joy Davidson, Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
· John Kunze, California Digital Library (CDL)
· Dave Thompson, Wellcome Trust

Venue
The Wellcome Library will host this event and the venue will be the Wellcome
Trust Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road. For more information about the
Wellcome Library and the Wellcome Trust, see http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
and http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/.

Travel Instructions
See detailed options for travelling to the Wellcome Trust Gibbs Building.
(http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node7520.html)

Accommodation
For a list of accommodation options near the venue, see
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/fpw-2006/Hotels.pdf.

Registration http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/fpw-2006/register
Registration fees are £75 for DCC Associates Network members and £125 for
non-members. These fees include all workshop materials and handouts, lunch
on both days and refreshments. Membership of the DCC Associates Network is
FREE!
For more information, see our Associates Network page
(http://www.dcc.ac.uk/associates/)

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Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.erpanet.org