The 5th International Digital Curation Conference Pre-Conference Workshops
2 December 2009
Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London
A day of pre-conference (5th International Digital Curation Conference) workshops followed by a drinks reception.
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4th International Data curation Education Action (IDEA) Working Group meeting
1 December 2009
London
The fourth IDEA meeting featured updates from several curation-related curriculum development projects and showcased a number of training courses currently being offered in the UK.
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Digital Curation and Preservation Outreach and Capacity Building Workshop
14-15 September 2009
Holiday Inn, Belfast, Northern Ireland
In co-operation with the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) we ran a two-day to help establish more effective digital curation and preservation networks of support across the UK and between domains of public sector activity.
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Automated Document Genre Classification Workshop: Supporting Digital Curation, Information Retrieval, and Knowledge Extraction
9 September 2009
Microsoft Research, Cambridge
In co-operation with the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) and Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, we held a workshop on Automated Document Genre Classification. This workshop was intended as a brainstorming session for building a research agenda for automated genre classification, identification and recognition that will enhance and support work flows within:digital curation and preservation; information management; information seeking, search, and retrieval; information extraction and knowledge discovery.
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Digital Curation 101 Lite
15 July 2009
Park Plaza Hotel, Leeds
This event is a one day 'lite' version of our Digital Curation 101 Workshop, which normally lasts four days. Using the Digital Curation Lifecycle Model as a reference point, this course employed a mix of lectures and practical exercises to equip students with both a theoretical underpinning of core digital curation issues as well as hands-on experience in applying the lessons learned. Download supporting presentations: Digital Curation 101 Introduction [PDF, 452KB], The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model [PDF, 949KB], Using DAF and AIDA to scope data management needs [PDF, 845KB].
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Digital Curation 101 Lite
26 May 2009
Tampere, Finland
This event is a one day 'lite' version of our Digital Curation 101 Workshop, which normally lasts four days. Using the Digital Curation Lifecycle Model as a reference point, this course employs a mix of lectures and practical exercises to equip students with both a theoretical underpinning of core digital curation issues as well as hands-on experience in applying the lessons learned. Download supporting presentations: Digital Curation 101 Introduction [PDF, 452KB], The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model [PDF, 949KB].
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Research Data Management Forum: Value and Benefits of Data Sharing and Management
30 April - 1 May 2009
Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester
This is the third workshop of the Research Data Management Forum. Aimed at researchers, digital repository managers, staff from library, information and research organisations, data curators, data centre managers, data scientists, research funding organisations and research networks, this event will cover the following theme: Value and Benefits of Data Sharing and Management.
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SCARP Workshop: Building and Curating Online Video Corpora
22 April 2009
Univeristy of Edinburgh
This was a meeting of researchers and stakeholders in data service provision to discuss curation issues raised in our SCARP case study on the roles and re-usability of video data in social studies of interaction. This event aimed to raise mutual awareness of research communities' practices and needs for archiving, sharing and re-using digital video data; identify how local and national research data services may contribute to the infrastructure for video data curation.
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3rd International Data curation Education Action (IDEA) Working Group Meeting
1 April 2009
Chapelhill, North Carolina, USA
The focus of this one-day workshop is on small group discussions of issues related to data curation education identified at the December 2008 meeting. Following discussions, each group will report back to larger group, offering insight and recommendations for responding to these issues. Participation is by invitation only. If you are interested in taking part, please contact Joy Davidson with your details.
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DRAMBORA Auditors' Training Course
23-25 March 2009
Ministry for Cultural Heritage, Rome, Italy
Based on practical research and developed jointly by ourselves and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment) provides a methodology for self-assessment of digital preservation repositories. The toolkit, now available as an interactive online audit tool, has been evaluated and applied across a diverse range of organisations such as national libraries, scientific data centres and archives. Together with DPE, we are running this series of courses to train new DRAMBORA auditors.
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DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop
10-12 March 2009
London
In recent years there have been a number of useful training events devoted to raising awareness about the curation and preservation of digital information. However, there is a still a need to provide practical hands-on training in conceptualising, creating, preserving access to and re-using data over time. Our Digital Curation 101 workshop will contribute towards bridging the gap that currently exists between this general awareness of preservation and curation issues and the ability to practically address them in a real working environment.
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DRAMBORA Auditors' Training Course
9-11 February 2009
Birkbeck College, London
Based on practical research and developed jointly by ourselves and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment) provides a methodology for self-assessment of digital preservation repositories. The toolkit, now available as an interactive online audit tool, has been evaluated and applied across a diverse range of organisations such as national libraries, scientific data centres and archives. Together with DPE, we are running this series of courses to train new DRAMBORA auditors.
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Tackling the Preservation Challenge: Practical Steps for Repository Managers Workshop
12 December 2008
Novotel Hotel, Euston Road, London
In conjunction with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), the Repositories Support Project (RSP), and JISC we are organising this joint workshop to bring together key stakeholders, the repository managers and preservation experts, at a practical focussed event to talk together and share perspectives, requirements, problems and solutions. It is hoped that the workshop will lead to collective recommendations for what the next moves for repository managers and preservation specialists should be to provide practical focussed support, services and tools. The workshop should in addition further repository managers' understanding of how to implement preservation strategies and processes.
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2nd International Data curation Education Action (IDEA) Working Group Meeting
4 December 2008
Edinburgh
The goal of this one-day workshop is to advance the identification of core educational requirements based on the initial work done by Professor Helen Tibbo and her team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Participation is by invitation only. If you are interested in taking part, please contact Joy Davidson with your details.
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DCC Curation Lifecycle Model Workshop
1 December 2008
Hilton Edinburgh Grosvenor Hotel
This workshop aims to introduce professionals charged with planning preservation and curation activities on the use of a lifecycle methodology. Participants will learn how to use, and customise, the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model to help define and develop curation or preservation workflows and activities within their organisation or consortium. The workshop will explain how to use the model to build granular functionality, to define roles and responsibilities, and build an implementable framework of standards and technologies. The use of relevant standards such as OAIS (ISO 14721:2003 Space data and information transfer systems - Open archival information system - Reference model) and ISO15489 (Information and documentation. Records management) will be introduced. The workshop will also explain how the DCC envisages using the model to contextualise a range of DCC and external resources to reflect, as accurately as possible, actual working practice.
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Research Data Management Forum: Roles and Responsibilities for Effective Data Management
26-27 November 2008
Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester
This is the second workshop of the Research Data Management Forum. Aimed at researchers, digital repository managers, staff from library, information and research organisations, data curators, data centre managers, data scientists, research funding organisations and research networks, this event will cover the following theme: Roles and Responsibilities for Data Curation.
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DCC/Edinburgh e-Science Collaborative Workshop
13 November 2008
University of Sheffield, Sheffield
The aim of this event is to help us learn more about the e-Science perspective on data curation, as well as to give e-Science practitioners an opportunity to influence both the ongoing and future work of the DCC. With an emphasis on data sharing, this workshop - which is by invitation only - will focus on real examples of data curation challenges and solutions from within the e-Science community, and consist of presentations, demonstrations and discussion. The programme is aimed at those currently involved in aspects of data management (including data collection), data accessibility and long-term data curation. It is expected to be of interest to scientists involved in e-Science research projects as well as those engaged in the process of digital data management.
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DRAMBORA Auditors' Training: Prague 2008
13-17 October 2008
Novotneho lavka, Prague, Czech Republic
Based on practical research and developed jointly by the DigitalPreservationEurope and Digital Curation Centre, DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment) provides a methodology for self-assessment of digital preservation repositories. The toolkit, now available as an interactive online audit tool, has been evaluated and applied across a diverse range of organisations, such as national libraries, scientific data centres and archives. This course is aimed at practitioners actively involved in funding, supporting, developing, implementing, and/or managing digital preservation repositories and interested in the assessment of digital repositories. The course will also be of value to auditors and risk managers from archives, libraries and museums sector, as well as other institutions such as data archives, government departments, legal and commercial sectors.
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DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop
6-10 October 2008
e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh
In recent years there have been a number of useful training events devoted to raising awareness about the curation and preservation of digital information. However, there is a still a need to provide practical hands-on training in conceptualising, creating, preserving access to and re-using data over time. Our Digital Curation 101 workshop contributed towards bridging the gap that currently exists between this general awareness of preservation and curation issues and the ability to practically address them in a real working environment.
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Data Audit Framework (DAF) and Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) Online Launch
1 October 2008
Lecture Hall at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH
In collaboration with DigitalPreservationEurope we are pleased to announce the official launch of the Data Audit Framework (DAF) and Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) Interactive Online tools. DAF provides organisations with the means to identify, locate, describe and assess the management of research data assets. DRAMBORA provides a method for self-assessment of digital curation practices and performance by repositories.
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JISC Digital Curation and Preservation Projects Forum
30 June 2008
Birkbeck College, London
This one-day workshop will be run over two sessions. The morning session will encompass two case studies, based around the broad themes of an institutional and national perspective on managing preservation and the users perspective on preservation-related issues. These will be supported by an introduction to the DCC Curation Lifecycle Model and group discussions on the placement of project outputs in this model.
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DCC/Edinburgh e-Science Collaborative Workshop
12 June 2008
e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh
The aim of this event is to help us learn more about the e-Science perspective on data curation, as well as to give e-Science practitioners an opportunity to influence both the ongoing and future work of the DCC. With an emphasis on data sharing, this workshop - which is by invitation only - will focus on real examples of data curation challenges and solutions from within the e-Science community, and consist of presentations, demonstrations and discussion. The programme is aimed at those currently involved in aspects of data management (including data collection), data accessibility and long-term data curation. It is expected to be of interest to scientists involved in e-Science research projects as well as those engaged in the process of digital data management.
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Research Data Management Forum Inaugural Workshop
19-20 March 2008
Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre, Manchester
In partnership with the Research Information Network we have created a new forum for the exchange of experience and best practice between the managers and technical staff from UK data centres, university repository installations and other related organisations with responsibility for the discovery, delivery and preservation of digital research output. The first workshop from this new forum will cover the following two themes: the future shape of the research data management community, and the provision of appropriate skills and effort to enable effective data curation.
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CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Tutorial
29 January 2008
University of Glasgow
This event introduced the audience to the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, a core ontology and ISO standard (ISO 21127) for the semantic integration of cultural information with library, archive and other information.
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DCC/DPE Forum: Developing an International Framework for Audit and Certification
29 November 2007
Campus Adlershof, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Evidence-based evaluation has been used successfully for many years to establish trust in traditional repositories such as museums and archives. It is, however, a mistake to assume that the trust earned by a repository that successfully manages and preserves analogue material can be transferred to their digital holdings. Such cavalier assumptions pose a substantial threat to the long-term accessibility and reusability of our collective memory and scholarship. Recent international activity has championed the need for evidence-based evaluation of digital repositories. However, the work to date has focussed largely on the development of a criteria checklist and on the audit itself. Considerably less thought has been committed to the shape of the overall certification framework that by necessity must surround it. This seminar brought together repository practitioners, professional auditors, representatives from international funding bodies, and members of the research community to determine the feasibility of digital repository certification on an international scale.
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DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint Workshop: Practices and Challenges in Preservation and Access for Scientific and Scholarly Digital Repositories
27-28 November 2007
Campus Adlershof, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
In conjunction with Digital Preservation Europe (DPE), Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER), and Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources (nestor), we delivered a joint workshop on the long-term curation of scientific and scholarly digital repository content. This event was organised as a follow-up to our DCC Workshop on Long-term Curation Within Digital Repositories on 6 July 2005.
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LOCKSS Discussion Workshop
26 November 2007
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
This one day workshop for participants of the LOCKSS Pilot Programme -- so it was by invitation only -- was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. It provided a forum to highlight individual experiences, assess the LOCKSS technology and approach, and discuss forthcoming phases of development within the Pilot Programme and LOCKSS project.
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Joint DCC and SCRIPTed Workshop on the Legal Environment of Digital Curation
23 November 2007
Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow
This one-day workshop provided a useful overview of legal considerations for non-legal professionals who work with data. The day comprised talks by experts in the areas of intellectual property rights and licensing; data protection, freedom of information and privacy; and data as evidence.
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Research Data Management Forum: Round Table Planning Meeting
19 November 2007
The Garden Room, King's Fund, Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN
Round-table planning meeting for our Research Data Management Forum.

e-Science Collaborative Workshop
16 October 2007
Imperial College, London
This is the fourth in a series of workshops held jointly by the DCC and a regional e-Science centre (the Imperial College Internet Centre in this case) for the exchange of practitioner experience and sharing advice on data curation.

SoA Pre-Conference Tutorial: Building Trust in Digital Repositories Using the DRAMBORA Toolkit
27 August 2007
Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
This practical tutorial provided a contextual overview of the need for an evidence based evaluation of digital repositories and offered an overview of the DCC pilot audits to date.
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RSP Summer School
27-29 June 2007
Totnes, Devon
This unique three day residential course delivered a comprehensive overview of the practical challenges and solutions to effective repository implementation. Attendees had the opportunity to engage in scholarly debates on current repository theory and gain hands-on experience with repository software and tools. A range of interactive seminars, practical workshops, lectures and panel sessions were delivered by a range of expert practitioners drawing from projects such as DAEDALUS, TARDIS, SHERPA, Repository Bridge and the RSP. These focused sessions were supplemented by a series of networking sessions and social engagements, all in the delightful surroundings of Dartington Hall.
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DCC at the IS&T Archiving Conference: Building Trust in Digital Repositories Using the DRAMBORA Toolkit
21 May 2007
Hilton Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Part of the IS&T's Archiving Conference [external], this practical tutorial provided a contextual overview of the need for an evidence based evaluation of digital repositories and offered an overview of the DCC pilot audits to date.
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Joint DCC and DPE Tutorial: Building Trust in Digital Repositories Using the DRAMBORA Toolkit
3 May 2007
The Hague, The Netherlands
This practical tutorial provided a contextual overview of the need for an evidence based evaluation of digital repositories and offered an overview of the DCC pilot audits to date.
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DCC Tutorial: Building Trust in Digital Repositories Using the DRAMBORA Toolkit
27 April 2007
The British Library, London
This practical tutorial provided a contextual overview of the need for an evidence-based evaluation of digital repositories and offered an overview of the DCC pilot audits to date.
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Joint DCC/PLANETS/CASPAR/DPE Joint Workshop: Developing an International Curation and Preservation Training Roadmap
29-30 March 2007
Nice, France
The number of projects and institutions providing training on digital preservation has increased dramatically in recent years, resulting in a vast and often overwhelming number of courses for potential attendees to choose from. As UK and EU projects such as DCC, DPE, CASPAR and PLANETS begin to finalise their own overall training plans, it is clear that increased collaboration is needed in order to establish a more co-ordinated approach. In order to try and address the issue, this meeting was initiated by members of DPE, PLANETS, CASPAR and DCC to discuss how projects might best work together to establish a shared roadmap for digital preservation and curation training. Attendance was encouraged from as many key initiatives and projects as possible, to ensure a high level of discussion and productivity.
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First International Workshop on Database Preservation (PresDB'07)
23 March 2007
Digital Curation Centre and the Database Group in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
This workshop brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners who addressed archival issues associated with databases. All participants' presentations were hosted by the workshop site and a short report with the final conclusions of the workshop discussions will be published. PresDB was organised by a small executive committee. The one-day program comprised oral presentations and brainstorming sessions. Attendance was mainly by invitation from the executive committee. To stimulate interaction and discussion, participants were invited to submit short position papers by 2 March 2007 (by e-mail to Vassilis Christophides).
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LOCKSS Training and Discussion Workshop
7 December 2006
Keble College, 23 Banbury Road, Oxford
This one day event provided a forum for discussion, highlighting individual experiences to assess the LOCKSS technology and approach, and covering forthcoming phases of development within the Pilot Programme and LOCKSS project.
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Joint DCC/LUCAS Workshop
30 November - 1 December 2006
Foresight Centre, Liverpool
This two-day workshop explored pre- and post-ingest activity for digital archival collections.
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Maintaining Long-Term Access to Geospatial Data
27 October 2006
e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh
In this one-day workshop, targeted at those already familiar with geospatial data use and management, participants shared information about the following areas: citing geospatial databases; geospatial data formats and metadata; and geospatial repositories and storage.
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Joint DCC/DPC Workshop: OAIS Five Year Review
13 October 2006
Wolfson Suite, Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh
This workshop prepared a joint comment, on behalf of members of the DCC Associates Network and members of the DPC, for submission to the OAIS (Open Archival Information System) Reference Model Five Year Review. The workshop was open to members of both organisations who were familiar with details of the standard and actively implementing or preparing to implement an OAIS. In compliance with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) procedures, the OAIS Reference Model: ISO 14721: 2003 must be reviewed every five years and a determination made to reaffirm, modify, or withdraw the existing standard. Recommendations for updates that will reduce ambiguities or improve missing or weak concepts were sought by 30 October 2006.
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Digital Curation and Preservation - What's it all about?
2 October 2006
Raeburn Room, Old College, University of Edinburgh
This seminar gave an overview of current and emerging approaches to the preservation of digital information and records. It looked at the current issues around the University of Edinburgh's corporate transactional databases and information resources such as e-mail and web content and explored some of the possible solutions and related practices. A key aim of the seminar was to encourage audience participation and exchange of ideas.
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LOCKSS Training Workshop
2 October 2006
Glasgow
This workshop offered training for the LOCKSS Pilot Programme and covered interactions with the LOCKSS system, examined available content and the circumstances under which this content can be cached and used, and provided an overview of the programme plan for the remainder of the project.
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Data Curation Mini-Workshop at UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM2006)
18-21 September 2006
East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham
In a joint initiative with the JISC-funded eBank UK and SPECTRa projects, we delivered a workshop that: described the current "state-of-play" in digital curation best practice; used Chemistry as a discipline to illustrate a pro-active approach to data curation, where access, discovery, use, re-use and preservation of the data is fundamental to the advancement of the science; drew on the experience of other disciplines to illustrate user requirements, issues and barriers to implementation of curation methodologies; and identified priority areas for further work to promote data curation amongst the wider community. The workshop began with invited speakers from the discipline of chemistry presenting their experience of curation and exploring the requirements of assuring long-term access to data to support interdisciplinary science. This domain exemplar was complemented by a call for contributions from other disciplines to illustrate their approaches to curation, the common challenges and discipline variation. There was also a moderated discussion session. The outcomes of the workshop will be summarised in a Position Paper, and the individual papers may be published in our electronic journal: the International Journal of Digital Curation.
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Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: PREMIS Tutorial
17-18 July 2006
Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
We delivered a two-day tutorial to introduce the PREMIS preservation metadata data dictionary. Metadata can play a vital role in enabling the effective management, discovery, and re-usability of digital information. Preservation metadata provides provenance information, documents preservation activity, identifies technical features, and aids in verifying the authenticity of a digital object. The PREMIS Working Group released its Data Dictionary for Preservation metadata in June 2005 (Data Dictionary for Preservation metadata [external, PDF, 3.3MB]). This is a core set of metadata elements recommended for use in all preservation repositories regardless of the type of materials archived and the preservation strategies employed.
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Joint DCC/DPC Workshop: Policies for Long-Term Curation and Preservation
3-4 July 2006
Wolfson College, University of Oxford
This event explored the range of policies required to manage, preserve, and reuse the information held within digital repositories over time. This event was co-sponsored by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).
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DCC Associates Network Meeting
17 May 2006
NeSC, Edinburgh
This event offered everyone the chance to find out more about the work we do, view demos and discuss issues surrounding the curation of data; plus, a fabulous opportunity to visit the DCC Head Office and meet with other Associates and chat to DCC staff from all areas of the organisation. View the slides from Chris Rusbridge's Welcome presentation View the slides from Mags McGinley's presentation, "Digital Curation: The Legal Environment." View the slides from Professor Peter Buneman's presentation, "Recent DCC Research and Future plans." View the slides from Dr David Giaretta's presentation, "Audit and Certification: Introduction to the RIR."
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E-mail Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation and Access
24-25 April 2006
Grey Street Hotel, Newcastle
This workshop investigated some of the organisational, cultural, and technical issues that must be addressed to provide accountability in the short term and to ensure that e-mails can be located, retrieved, accessed, and re-used over time.
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LOCKSS Programme Kick-Off Meeting
6 April 2006
Scarman House, Warwick Conference Centre, Warwick
This event provided a forum for participants in the LOCKSS UK Pilot Programme to meet each other and build relationships. Participants were also provided with a detailed outline of the structure of support, communication mechanisms, and training programmes that will be in place over the duration of the Pilot Programme.
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JORUM, JISC and DCC Meeting on the Long-term Curation and Preservation of Learning Objects
9 February 2006
Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
This meeting, which included members of JISC, JORUM and the DCC, discussed issues regarding the long-term curation and preservation of digital learning objects.
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Joint Workshop on Future-Proofing Institutional Websites
19-20 January 2006
Wellcome Library, London
This event focused on practical tools and techniques that can help to ensure that institutional websites are future-proofed against risks such as institutional change and technological obsolescence. In particular, we examined appraisal processes, formats for curation and preservation, international curation and preservation activity, and specific experiences through a series of case studies.
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CURL/SCONUL Joint Task Force on e-Research
12 December 2005
The King's Fund, London
This workshop was aimed at University Library staff and included an overview of the grid technology that makes e-research possible; a look at the UK's national e-science programme, with particular emphasis on the data and information management challenges; and discussion about the part that libraries can play in supporting this crucial new approach to research.
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Digital Curation and Preservation: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade
7-8 November 2005
University of Warwick
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the DCC, the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), and The British Library delivered this two-day workshop to help shape the international digital preservation and curation research agenda.
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Joint DCC/ERPANET Workshop: Long-term Curation and Preservation of Medical Databases
13-14 October 2005
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
This workshop explored the ways that practitioners can support accessibility and reusability of medical databases over time, and provided an opportunity for information professionals, medical practitioners, commercial developers, students, and researchers to network with colleagues, learn about current developments, discuss their own experiences, and identify risks and challenges that are likely to emerge. Presentations, and panel discussions offered participants cross-disciplinary perspectives on the long-term preservation of medical databases.
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Joint DCC/DPC Workshop: Cost Models
26 July 2005
The British Library, London
In conjunction with the Digital Preservation Coalition [external] we held this one-day workshop that explored cost models for long-term curation. At this event we provided case studies outlining practical examples of cost models currently being developed and overviews of international research activities looking into the development of cost models.
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DCC Workshop on Long-term Curation within Digital Repositories
6 July 2005
Møller Centre, Cambridge
This event focused on practical tools and approaches that are currently being used or developed to assist with the long-term curation of digital information within digital repositories. In particular, this event examined ingest processes, description of digital information, preservation activity and certification efforts and how they can impact the long-term usability of digital information.
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DCC Workshop on Persistent Identifiers
30 June - 1 July 2005
Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
This event was the first in a series of related events which aimed to establish wider agreement of some common requirements for creating globally unique, persistent identifiers.
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Preservation Workflow Workshop
13-15 October 2004
Budapest, Hungary
The DCC was a co-sponsor of this ERPANET event.
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Persistent Identifiers
17-18 June 2004
Cork, Ireland
The DCC was a co-sponsor of this ERPANET event.
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File Formats and Registries
10-11 May 2004
Vienna, Austria
The DCC was a co-sponsor of this ERPANET event.
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Audit and Certification in Preservation
14-16 April 2004
Antwerp, Belgium
The DCC was a co-sponsor of this ERPANET event.
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