Dear colleagues,

 

registration is open for a one-day introductory workshop to the OAIS reference model, and its terminology and concepts, which will take place in Cologne, Germany, on November 23rd, 2016, offered by CESSDA Training (http://cessda.net/CESSDA-Training).

 

The Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) is an important standard for organizations involved in the preservation and dissemination of digital information objects. As a generic model of preservation systems it describes workflows and functions performed by archives and thereby provides important answers to the question of how we can ensure that digital records remain accessible and understandable across technological and cultural change.

 

Yet, while OAIS is immensely helpful in understanding how archives work, its language and concepts are not easily accessible, especially for those new to the field of (digital) preservation. This one-day workshop seeks to address this issue by providing an introduction to the OAIS reference model, and its terminology and concepts. In doing so, we will focus on two core elements of the OAIS standard: the functional model, which captures archival tasks and workflows; and the information model, which describes the information objects preserved by an archive, which are composed of the object to be preserved and different types of descriptive information (metadata).

 

This course is free for staff of CESSDA archives. For all other participants, the course fee is 50€.

For further information and to register, please visit https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0x64118F10B87B4CAD869D466009D55E2B&lang=en_US.

 

Best regards

Jonas Recker

 

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Dr. Jonas Recker, MLIS

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Producer Relations and Outreach

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D-50667 Köln

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