From the Cradle to the Grave: The Digital Life Cycle.
OCLC PICA Digital & Preservation Resources provide libraries with the
flexibility to preserve and manage digital collections via microfilming,
digitising, collection management tools and archiving services. You are
invited to attend the free OCLC PICA Digital Collection and Preservation
Workshop being held at the North East Museums Libraries & Archives Council
House of Recovery, Bath Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5SQ.
Tuesday 14th June 2005, 10:00am – 13:00pm
Agenda
- Introduction/Why OCLC PICA?
- Environmental Scan/Trends
A report to identify and describe issues and trends that are impacting and
will impact OCLC PICA, libraries, museums, and archives. Identifying the
main patterns in the information landscape and to suggest some
implications for its future.
- Creation
- Strata and Preservation Resources, Bethlehem
Strata Preservation N.V. focuses on microfilming and digitising the
vulnerable and unique collections of European cultural heritage
institutions to make them more accessible. Whilst OCLC's main Preservation
Service Centre is based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
- Access
- Olive: Digital collection management for newspapers and other formats
that preserves cultural context while providing powerful indexing and
searching.
- CONTENTdm: provides tools to organise, manage, publish and search
digital collections on the Web.
- Preservation
Digital archive: The Digital Archive offers a safe, reliable, standards-
based, long-term solution for the life cycle management of digital
collections.
To attend the workshop, please send your details and number of attendees
by Tuesday 31st May to Gillian McLeod at [log in to unmask]
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