The Digital Preservation Coalition is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2018 ‘Getting Started with Digital Preservation’ workshop series, which will visit Glasgow, London, and Dublin.

 

The Digital Preservation Coalition is delighted to invite you to join them at a workshop which will equip collection managers, archivists, librarians and conservators with the skills necessary for ‘Getting Started in Digital Preservation. This day-long introduction assumes no prior knowledge except a willingness to engage with digital preservation. Through a series of presentations, case studies and exercises, participants will learn how to apply techniques of assessment, risk management and planning to help secure their digital collections. Presentations and exercises will help participants:

 

• Understand the range of issues associated with digital preservation
• Gain a clear understanding of their organisation's readiness to undertake digital preservation
• Plan for implementing bit-level preservation
• Survey and characterise a digital collection
• Undertake preliminary risk assessment to manage their own digital collections
• Meet and network with others locally working in digital preservation

 

Workshop Dates and Locations

 

• Glasgow University Library, Glasgow, 24^th May
• Information Technologists’ Hall, London, 1^st June
• Berkeley Library, Trinity College Dublin, 7^th June

 

Who should come?

 

These workshops will interest:

• Collections managers, librarians, curators and archivists in all institutions
• IT managers in memory institutions
• Records managers in institutions with a need for long-lived data
• CIO’s in organisations with commercial intellectual property
• Students and researchers in information science and related fields

 

Registration

Registration is free for members of the DPC and £50 for non-members. There is a limit of 3 places per member (incl. consortia and membership organisations) and these will be available on a 'first come, first served' basis. Additional registrations will be accepted but will be placed on the wait list until registration closes a week before the event, at which time they will be distributed equally amongst members. The workshops usually fill up quickly, so early registration is recommended.

 

Find out more about the events and register via the DPC website: http://bit.ly/EventsDPC

 

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