Digital Preservation Road Show, London, 19 August 2009

The third 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 (John Chambers, Executive Director, Society of Archivists)
10:35-11:05 Introduction to Digital Preservation (Richard Blake, Senior Manager Public Sector Team, Archives Sector Development, The National Archives)
11:05-11:30 Introducing the DPC (William Kilbride, DPC Executive Director)
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:15 Case study: Parliamentary Archives (Adrian Brown, Assistant Clerk of the Records, Parliamentary Archives)
12:15-12:45 Case study: the MLA Yorkshire archive (Alex Eveleigh, Collections Manager, West Yorkshire Archive Services)
12:45-14:15 Lunch (provided) & demos of DROID/PRONOM and checksumming tool (Heather Needham, Principal Archivist (ICT & e-services), Hampshire Record Office; Susan Thomas, Digital Archivist, Bodleian Library & Malcolm Todd, Digital Archives Advice Manager, The National Archives)
14:15-14:45 Case study: Wellcome Library (Dave Thompson, Digital Curator, Wellcome Library) 
14:45-15:15 Tools: Introduction to the Planets project (Clive Billenness, Programme Manager, Planets Project)
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:00 Tools: Demonstration of Planets tools (Clive Billenness, Programme Manager, Planets Project)
16:00-17:00 Funding workshop: HLF bids (Louise Ray, Archives Lottery Adviser, National Council on Archives and Fiona Talbott, Head of Museums, Libraries and Archives, Heritage Lottery Foundation)
17:00-17:30 Panel of speakers - final discussions
17:30 Close

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