COURSE
DPTP: The Practice of Digital Preservation
COURSE CODE
ANLTC 2015/05
DESCRIPTION
ANLTC and the CONUL Sub-committee for Digital Infrastructure and Services, are pleased to
announce that the DPTP Team from University of London Computer Centre will be delivering their
intermediate three-day course on digital preservation at the National Library of Ireland, Kildare St.,
Dublin 2, on 29 April – 1 May 2015, from 10.00am to 5.00pm. The Course coincides with
Preservation Week.
The Course is aimed at practitioners already working in digital preservation and who wish to broaden
their working knowledge of the field. It is ideal for practitioners who want to learn more about
applying practices in their day-to-day work.
Attendees are expected to have some familiarity with the OAIS Model, its concepts, and its
terminology. Although the model will not be taught on this course, some of the underlying terms
and concepts are used.
The course also aims to give attendees confidence in continuing to maintain their own current
awareness after the course, through further reading, future professional development training, and
continuing to develop their own practical skills through their own continued experience of engaging
with digital preservation.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Archivists, records managers, curators, collections managers, librarians, information management
professionals, repository managers.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course teaches awareness of:
Subject-specific knowledge and definitions
Digital preservation methods and approaches
Fundamental digital preservation principles
Appropriate technological solutions for digital
preservation
Digital preservation tools and their use
The needs of the designated user community
The significant properties of digital objects
File format types and their structures
Approaches for the preservation of databases
Approaches for the preservation of email
Managed storage
Metadata types and how to use them
Migration pathways, tools and destination
formats
How to construct a business plan for digital
preservation
Using METS for digital preservation
Using PREMIS for preservation metadata
Using XML to build information packages
Audit and certification standards
The course modules include:
Approaches to digital preservation
The Performance Model and Significant
Properties
Understanding file formats
The structure of file formats
Approaches to preservation of email
Trusted digital repositories and self-assessment
regimes
How to do metadata
XML and its use for digital preservation
Understanding and implementing METS
Understanding and implementing PREMIS
How to make a business case for digital
preservation
Repository tools
Understanding and preserving databases
Communicating and working with user
communities
Managed storage
COURSE PRESENTERS
Ed Pinsent is a Digital Archivist who has worked at University of London Computer Centre since
2004. He has a background as a traditional archivist and records manager for the Church of England,
The National Archives, and others. He is a tutor on the Digital Preservation Training Programme, and
a Board member of the Digital Preservation Coalition. He is part of the ULCC team offering
consultancy in digital preservation, and has experience in web-archiving, repository management,
metadata projects, migration, digitisation, policy design, and project management.
Stephanie Taylor has a background in academic libraries and has worked as a library and
information consultant and trainer / facilitator. She has over 15 years of experience in the library
and information sector. She also worked for around five years as a project manager & engineering
team leader for a library software company. She occasionally uses that experience to write
documentation and manage developers for HEI software development projects. Her main interests
are in all things digital library, social media, digital copyright, repositories, Open Access and Open
Development.
Host Libraries:
Course Location:
Dublin City University & the National Library of Ireland
Seminar Room, National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Course Fee:
€450.00 (Places are limited, early booking is essential).