Digital Preservation Road Show, Dublin, 26 November 2009
The fourth of a series of digital preservation road shows, designed to raise awareness of the issues associated with digital preservation. The road show will 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. More information about the series of road shows is available.Venue: John Hume Institute Building, Belfield Campus, University College Dublin.
Programme
10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-10:35 Welcome from the Chair (John Chambers, Executive Director, Society of Archivists)
10:35-11:05 Introduction to Digital Preservation (Tim Gollins, Head of Digital Preservation , The National Archives, UK)
11:05-11:30 Introducing the DPC (William Kilbride, DPC Executive Director)
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:15 Case study: Public Record Office Northern Ireland (Hugh Campbell, PRONI)
12:15-12:45 Case study: Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (Antoinette Doran and James Kirwan, University College Dublin)
12:45-13:45 Lunch (provided)
13:45-14:15 Case study: West Yorkshire Archive Services (Alex Eveleigh, Collections Manager, West Yorkshire Archive Services)
14:15-15:00 Tools: Introduction to the Planets project (Clive Billenness, Programme Manager, Planets Project)
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:00 Final discussion panel (Chaired by William Kilbride, DPC Executive Director)
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