Hi,

Please find below details of our new course, which might be of interest to members of this list.

The Digital Preservation Training Programme are pleased to announce our new course, ‘DPTP: An Introduction to Digital Preservation’. The first instance will be delivered on 21st – 22nd July 2014.

Course Overview
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This entry-level two-day long course is aimed at complete beginners who wish to learn more about the field.  It is ideal for starters in all disciplines who want to know more about digital preservation.

The course is very much a starting point, focussed on raising awareness and familiarising participants with the main subject areas and trends around digital preservation. We aim to give those attending a good grounding in digital preservation so that they can feel confident in tackling further reading afterwards and engaging with practical follow-up training and/or experience on their own behalf.

Our course complements the regular Digital Preservation Coalition Event “Getting Started in Digital Preservation”, and has been devised in full co-operation with the DPC. 

The DPTP is working towards conformance with the skills and competency levels defined by the DigCurV Curriculum Framework. The course “An Introduction to Digital Preservation” is aimed at Practitioners at a Basic level. This means that the course teaches a basic awareness of a given subject area, including basic knowledge of the range of issues that shape developments in the subject area. Practitioner Skills will enable a digital preservation professional to plan and execute a variety of technical tasks, both individually and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.


Who should attend?
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●	Archivists
●	Records managers
●	Curators
●	Collections managers
●	Librarians
●	Information management professionals
●	Anyone else  with a need to understand digital preservation as part of their work


By the end of the course, those attending will - 
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●	Understand digital preservation terminology 
●	Be familiar with the main standards used in digital preservation
●	Be conversant with the fundamental principles of digital preservation
●	Be familiar with appropriate technological solutions and tools used in the field
●	Understand how to identify user communities and be aware of  their needs
●	Be aware of the importance of file types, applications and systems
●	Be conversant with relevant metadata standards
●	Understand the role of metadata within digital preservation
●	Be familiar with storage policies
●	Understand the legal framework within which all digital preservation takes place
●	Understand the role of audit and certification standards and risk management as applied in this

 
Course Tutors
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The course tutors, Ed Pinsent and Steph Taylor, developed the award-winning original Digital Preservation Training Programme. Ed is a senior archivist based within the Academic Research Technologies team at ULCC, and has been involved in all aspects of digital preservation since 2004. He has a traditional archivist and records manager background, and brings to his teaching a wide range of skills and experience from numerous digital preservation projects.  Steph is a senior consultant with the Academic Research Technologies team and comes from a library and information background. She has worked with digital preservation from a research library and repository perspective, and has a long-standing professional interest in metadata and copyright issues within the field.

Next Steps
Date: 21st - 22nd July 2014
Venue: Bloomsbury Room (Room G35), Senate House, London
Costs: £570 including VAT

More information about the course can be found here - http://www.dptp.org/introductory-course/
Please book for the course here - http://www.dptp.org/2014/06/04/next-dptp-july-2014/

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Read more about how and why we are launching new courses - http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk/2014/06/19/new-courses-for-the-digital-preservation-training-programme/
More information about DPC can be found at - http://www.dpconline.org/
More information about the DigCurV framework can be found at - http://www.digcurv.gla.ac.uk/

Best wishes,
Steph

Stephanie Taylor
Senior Consultant
Academic & Research Technologies
University of London Computer Centre
Senate House
South Block
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
http://www.ulcc.ac.uk
http://dablog.ulcc.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7863 1341
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