Digital Preservation Road Show, Gloucester, 29 April 2009

Overview

The first in a series of digital preservation road shows, designed to raise awareness of the issues associated with digital preservation. The road show aimed to demonstrate that there are solutions that don’t involve mega budgets, and show how to take the first, small, incremental steps that will make a start on engaging with these issues.

Programme

10:00-10:30 Registration and coffee
10:30-10:35 Welcome (Heather Forbes, County Archivist, Gloucestershire Archives)
10:35-11:05 Introduction to Digital Preservation (Nick Kingsley, Head of Archives Sector Development, The National Archives)
11:05-11:30 Introducing the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) (William Kilbride, DPC Executive Director)
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:15 Tools: DROID/PRONOM and preservation planning (Tim Gollins, Head of Digital Preservation, The National Archives) [demo - no slides]
12:15-12:45 Case study: Gloucestershire Archive Ingest Packager (GAip) (Viv Cothey, e-Preservation Archivist, Gloucestershire Archives)
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:15 Case study: Welsh Literature Archive (Ifor Ap Dafydd, Development Officer, The Welsh Literature Archive/Archif Llenyddiaeth Cymru, National Library of Wales)
14:15-14:45 Case study: the MLA Yorkshire archive (Alex Eveleigh, Collections Manager, West Yorkshire Archive Services)
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-15:30 Funding & strategy: making the business case (Richard Blake, Senior Manager, Public Sector Team, Archives Sector Development, The National Archives)
15:30-16:30 Final discussions: break-out groups
16:30 Close

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