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Places still remaining on our new DPTP course - 'Web Archiving 101'. This is a 1-day course and will take place at Senate House in London on 16th November 2015, 10.00-16.30. Course Overview This course is aimed at anyone who has a specific interest in capturing, selecting and using web content for any kind of research and who also need to ensure that web content can persist and endure in an accessible and useable preservation environment. The course will teach the basics of web archiving. It will explore who is doing web archiving currently, why it can be useful, who uses web archives and for what purposes. It will explain the selection process for content, investigate records management and business needs, look at available tools and consider outsourcing as an option. It will also cover legal aspects of web archiving and the issues around the archiving of social media. Programme for the day · Introductions · Context: who does web archiving? · Why archive the web at all? · How fast the web decays · Web archiving as an aspect of records management · The PoWR project [institutional H&FE case study] · Case study from a commercial company, for a business perspective · Researcher needs and patterns of use · How to select what to preserve · National domain-wide and selective approaches, including events · Institutional sector-specific selection (e.g. JISC, TNA) · Individual and research-driven selection · Legal and copyright issues · How to go about it · The main scaleable technologies · The BlogForever project · Technical problem areas · Social media · Outsourcing options Course Tutors Dr Peter Webster, formerly Web Archiving Engagement & Liaison Manager for the British Library UK Web Archive and also Programme & Communications Officer for the International Internet Preservation Consortium and currently Managing Director of Webster Research & Consulting. Ed Pinsent, former web archiving curator for the Jisc, supplier to the PoWR and BlogForever projects, and tutor on the DPTP Sara Day Thomson, social media researcher for the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). Steph Taylor, digital librarian, repositories and copyright expert, and tutor on the DPTP Who should attend? Researchers, archivists, librarians, records managers, especially those working in the HFE sector. Anyone with an interest in capturing web content, selecting web content, using web content for research, and ensuring that web content can persist and endure in an accessible and usable preservation environment. Next Steps Date: 16th November 2015 Venue: The course will be held at Senate House, conveniently located in the heart of Bloomsbury, next to the British Museum and Russell Square. Costs: £299 + VAT More information about the course can be found here<http://dptp.org/courses/web-archiving-101-course-2/>. Please book for the course online<http://store.london.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=3&modid=5&deptid=156&catid=1&prodid=877>. For enquiries about the course content, please email - [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> For enquiries about bookings & payment, please email - [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra