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From: Archivists, conservators and records managers.
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Sent: 25 October 2006 10:49
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Subject: DCC and LUCAS Joint Workshop


DCC and LUCAS Joint Workshop
November 30th-December 1st, 2006
The Foresight Centre,
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006

The Digital Curation Centre and Liverpool University Centre for Archive
Studies (LUCAS) are pleased to announce that they will be delivering a
two-day workshop to explore pre and post-ingest activity for digital
archival collections. This event will be held in the Gallery at the
Foresight Centre, Liverpool on November 30th and December 1st, 2006.

This workshop will investigate pre and post-ingest activity through a
mixture of case studies and presentations. 
 
Benefits of Attendance: 
This workshop will be of benefit to individuals and institutions that are
interested in collecting and managing digital archival collections. This
event will specifically explore key issues associated with developing a
pre-ingest strategy, ingest processes, and preservation activity. 

Dates: This workshop will be held on the afternoon of Thursday November 30th
and all day Friday December 1st.

Format
This two-day event will be split over two sessions. The first will explore
pre-ingest activity and will include presentations on developing a
pre-ingest strategy, improving contact with content creators and depositors,
and understanding the benefits of compliance with standards. The second
session will include presentations and case studies that illustrate ingest
processes for a range of record types, format identification, and
preservation activity. 

Venue
This event will be held in the Gallery at the Foresight Centre, Liverpool.
For more information about the venue, please see
http://www.foresightcentre.co.uk/

Travel Instructions
Please see http://www.foresightcentre.co.uk/location.html for information
travelling to the Foresight Centre.

Accommodation
Please see http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006
for a list of hotels in the area.

Registration
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006
Registration fees are 100 pounds for DCC Associates Network and 150 pounds
for non-members. Membership of the DCC Associates Network is free and more
information on becoming a member can be found at
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/network.html

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Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor Humanities Advanced
Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Ser= vice House, 11
University Gardens, University of 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 
             

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