Digital Preservation Road Show, York, 26 June 2009

The second 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 (Martin Taylor, Chair, Northern Region, Society of Archivists)
10:35-11:05 Managing information for the long term (Malcolm Todd, Digital Archives Advice Manager, The National Archives)
11:05-11:30 Introducing the DPC (William Kilbride, DPC Executive Director)
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:15 Tools: DROID/PRONOM and preservation planning (Alison Heatherington, Digital Archives Analyst, The National Archives)
12:15-12:45 Case study:Enabling digital preservation through an institutional repository: the REMAP project (Chris Awre, Hull University)
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:15 Case study: OASIS: accessing archaeological grey literature on line  (Catherine Hardman, Collections Development Manager, The Archaeology Data Service)
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: academic sector partnerships (Neil Grindley, Digital Preservation Programme Manager, JISC)
15:30-16:30 Break-out groups: checksums, file formats and risk management
16:30 Final questions and close

Speakers at the York Road Show

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