Digital Preservation Road Show, Manchester, 10 December 2009

The sixth 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: Museum Dining Hall at the Freemasons'' Hall, Manchester. See: http://www.freemasons-hall.co.uk/findus.php

Programme

10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-10:35 Welcome (John Chambers, Executive Director, Society of Archivists)
10:35-11:05 Introduction to Digital Preservation (Richard Blake, Digital Archives Advice Manager, The National Archives)
11:05-11:30 Introducing the Digital Preservation Coalition (William Kilbride, DPC Executive Director)
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:15 Case Study: Manchester Archives and Local Studies  (Kevin Bolton, Principal Archivist, Manchester Archives and Local Studies)
12:15-13:00 Case study: Digital Preservation from a Records Management Perspective (Michael Day, Research and Development, UKOLN, University of Bath)
13:00-13:45 Lunch (provided)
13:45-14:15 Case study: the MLA Yorkshire archive (Alex Eveleigh, Collections Manager, West Yorkshire Archive Services
14:15-14:45 Funding and strategy (Richard Blake, Senior Manager, Public Sector Team, Archives Sector Development, The National Archives)
14:45-15:15 Break
15:15-16:00 Final discussion panel (Chaired by William Kilbride, DPC Executive Director)

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