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Places still available on the JISC, BL and DPC workshop - What to
preserve? Significant Properties of Digital Objects
Date: 7th April 2008
Venue: British Library Conference Centre
Registrations Close: 20th March 2008
Register online:
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/080407workshop.html
Significant properties are essential characteristics of a digital object
which must be preserved over time for the digital object to remain
accessible and meaningful. Proper understanding of the significant
properties of digital objects is critical to establish best practices
and helps answer the fundamental question related to digital
preservation: what to preserve?
The importance of significant properties has been highlighted by a
number of notable digital preservation initiatives in recent years.
These include a range of projects funded by the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC) and the European Union, in which work has been
undertaken to investigate the factors affecting decisions on significant
properties, to establish generic models for determining them, to develop
tools and services for describing and extracting them, or simply to
understand complex digital object types, using the concept of
significant properties as a starting point.
JISC, the British Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
are organising a joint workshop on 7th April at the British Library
Conference Centre. The intention is to bring together the relevant
projects and report on progress to date. It is also hoped that the
workshop will lead to collective recommendations for future areas of
research and development. The workshop should in addition further our
understanding of and provide insight into a number of specific types of
digital objects, including documents, images, software, scientific data,
government records and e-learning objects.
Who should attend?
Repository managers, librarians, archivists, information management
specialists, software vendors, service providers
Benefits of Attendance
* An opportunity to input into future research and development in
the area of significant properties
* To get up to speed with the outcomes from the major projects
already working in this important area
* To gain an understanding of some of the issues and challenges
when dealing with complex digital objects
Full details of the programme and registration can be found at:
http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/080407workshop.html
This is a free event however registration is compulsory
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Carol Jackson
Administration and Events Manager
Digital Preservation Coalition
Innovation Centre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44 (0) 1904 435 362
https: www.dpconline.org
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