The Dalhousie Libraries is pleased to announce that it is organizing a 5-day Digital Preservation Management (DPM)
Workshop this September in
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Date: Sunday, September 25, 2016 (5:00 p.m.) - Friday, September 30, 2016 (12:00 p.m.)
Location: Aikens Room, Nova Scotia Archives
Tuition: $1,250.00 CAD
Halifax workshop website:
http://libraries.dal.ca/about/events/dpmworkshop.html
Pre-registration form:
http://goo.gl/forms/uH9bQTYLUXHk2Wwh2
The
workshop will be led by internationally
recognized digital preservation experts: Nancy McGovern (Director of
Digital Preservation at MIT Libraries) and Kari Smith (Senior Digital
Archivist at MIT Institute Archives), along with guest instructors and
presenters in-person and virtually. This iteration of the
workshop will also feature a keynote presentation by Evelyn McLellan, President of Artefactual Systems.
The Digital Preservation Management
Workshops, a
series presented since 2003, incorporate community standards and
exemplars of good practice to provide practical guidance for developing
effective digital preservation programs. The goals of the
workshop
are to foster critical thinking in a technological realm and provide
the means for exercising practical and responsible stewardship of
digital assets in an age of technological uncertainty.
The
workshop includes interactive presentations,
group discussions, exercises, individual assignments, and a keynote
presentation by an international expert in digital preservation.
Workshop attendees explore the range of components needed to develop an effective digital preservation program.
Workshop
materials include action plans for organizations to complete when
participants return to their institutions. Action plans result in
organization-specific plans that incorporate technical, financial,
organizational, and policy aspects encompassing the full life cycle of
digital objects. The
workshop focuses on
strategies for organizations to implement now, while research and
development goes forward in creating longer-term solutions that can be
incorporated into the program framework.
Workshop curriculum is continually updated to reflect the latest community standards and practice. The
workshop
begins with the premise that you are managing digital material and
therefore does not specifically cover digitization except in ensuring
the quality of digitized and born digital content to be preserved.
As a prerequisite for the
workshop, we ask
participants to work through the Digital Preservation Management
Tutorial - a free resource for anyone interested in learning the
foundations for digital preservation and as a starting point for
advanced discussions. For more information about the DPM
workshop and DP Tutorial please see:
http://www.dpworkshop.org
Pre-registration is available here:
http://goo.gl/forms/uH9bQTYLUXHk2Wwh2
After the organizers have reviewed your answers, the Dalhousie Libraries
will contact you regarding final registration and payment.
Pre-registration closes whenever the
workshop reaches capacity. Please register soon to reserve your spot!
Regards,
Creighton Barrett