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Digital Preservation Training Programme Birmingham Conference Park, 20th - 
24th March 2006 

Discount available for DPC Members. 

The DPC Board have agreed to subsidise DPC members attending the DPTP.  
Full members will be eligible for a 30% discount and Associate members will 
be eligible for a 10% discount.  

Booking is now open for the second Digital Preservation Training 
Programme.  This is an intensive one week residential course to be held at 
Birmingham Conference Park, 20th - 24th March 2006.

Topics covered will include:  planning and strategy, OAIS, tools, metadata, 
costs, risk management, legal issues, web archiving, access plus much more.

The pilot version of this training programme took place in October 2005 and 
received very positive comments from attendees and through a process of 
independent evaluation.  Comments included:

"Overall an excellent series of seminars.  Pre-course material was 
invaluable... I will be thoroughly recommending the course to colleagues."

"The overall approach was good and I was positively surprised that it was a 
real workshop with hands-on exercises." 

"...the most beneficial and well presented, thought out course that I've 
ever attended in 10 years as a professional." 

DPTP's development is funded by JISC under its Digital Preservation and 
Asset Management programme. The project is led by ULCC, working with its

partners: the Digital Preservation Coalition and Cornell University.  It 
builds on the excellent foundations of Cornell's Digital Preservation 
Management Workshop, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Places are limited to 24 to ensure a good presenter/student ratio and 
maximum participation from delegates. Booking is open to all and we welcome 
applications from elsewhere in Europe.  

The course is available at a special promotional price of £950. DPC members 
can receive a discount of 30% for full members (course price
£665) and 10% for associate members (course price £855.) Future courses are 
likely to be charged at the full rate of £1100.


You will be advised whether your booking was successful by email on the 
first working day following your request. 


To book, please go to
HYPERLINK "http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/dptp/bookingform.htm"http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/
dptp/bookingform.htm 

If you have any queries regarding the course, please email dptp- 
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HYPERLINK "http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/dptp/"http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/dptp/ for 
further details.