We are pleased to announce the next dates for our new Course “DPTP: The Practice of Digital Preservation”.

This intermediate three-day long course is aimed at those practitioners who are already working in digital preservation and who wish to broaden their working knowledge of the field. It is ideal for practitioners in all sectors who want to know more about applying practices in their day-to-day work.

This practitioner course builds on and complements our two-day DPTP Introductory Course.

Students who attend are expected to be familiar with the OAIS Model, its concepts, and its terminology. Although the model will not be taught on this course, some of the underlying terms and concepts are used.

We also aim to give students confidence in continuing to maintain their own current awareness afterwards through further reading, future professional development training and continuing to develop their own practical skills through their own continued experience of engaging with digital preservation.

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

Archivists, records managers, curators, collections managers, librarians, information management professionals.

Learning outcomes

• Subject-specific knowledge and definitions
• Digital preservation methods and approaches
• Fundamental digital preservation principles
• Appropriate technological solutions for digital preservation
• Digital preservation tools and their use
• The needs of the designated user community
• The significant properties of digital objects
• File format types and their structures
• Migration pathways, tools and destination formats
• Approaches for the preservation of databases
• Approaches for the preservation of audio-visual content
• Approaches for the preservation of email
• Metadata types and how to use them
• Using METS for digital preservation
• Using PREMIS for preservation metadata
• Using XML to build information packages
• Audit and certification standards
• How to construct a business plan for digital preservation

Syllabus

The modules include:

• Approaches to Digital Preservation
• The Performance Model and Significant Properties
• Understanding file formats
• The structure of file formats
• Approaches to preservation of email
• TRAC and other assessment regimes
• How to do metadata
• XML and its use for digital preservation
• Understanding and implementing METS
• Understanding and implementing PREMIS
• How to make a business case for digital preservation
• Repository tools
• Understanding and preserving databases
• Working with the user community
• An approach to the preservation of audio-visual content

Course Tutors

 

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: 21^st - 23^rd September 2015

Venue: The course will be held in the Woburn Suite, Senate House, conveniently located in the heart of Bloomsbury (next to the British Museum and Russell Square):

Senate House (South Block)

Malet Street

London

WC1E 7HU

 

Costs: £960 including VAT

 

More information about the course can be found here - www.dptp.org

Please book for the course here - bit.ly/DPTP_INTER_SEP2015

 

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More information about DPC can be found at - www.dpconline.org

More information about the DigCurV framework can be found at - www.digcurv.gla.ac.uk