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Places available on short Undergraduate online course – An Introduction to Digitisation and Digital Preservation.

 

A small number of places are available for study in Jan 2018 on the short online An Introduction to Digitisation and Digital Preservation (9 weeks) course offered by the Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS) at the University of Dundee.

 

The course is at undergraduate level, is tutored by experts and delivered online via an interactive, fully-supported, virtual learning environment. The course is ideal for anyone seeking to acquire or refresh knowledge in this area of professional practice. Further details are listed below. Please note that the closing date for applications is the 17^th November.  The course begins on the 15^th January.

 

Application forms are available online at http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cais/howtoapply/.

 

All short courses and Masters degrees offered by CAIS are accredited by the Archives and Records Association, UK and Ireland and by Records and Information Management Professionals, Australasia.

 

For more information please contact us on +44 (0)1382 385543 or email [log in to unmask]

 

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Further Details:

 

An Introduction to Digitisation and Digital Preservation

• Introduction: different types of digital records
• Digitisation: why and how (including metadata and standards but excluding storage and access)
• Digital Preservation I: the content lifecycle; fundamental problems; key concepts.
• Digital Preservation II: organisational approaches; technical strategies; preservation planning
• Business cases for digitisation and preservation projects.

 

 

 

			Dr. Craig Gauld  Lecturer in Archive and Information Studies / Distance-Learning Officer for the School of Humanities.  Archive and Information Studies, University of Dundee  [log in to unmask] | +44(0)1382 388420
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