[dcc-associates] FW: Decoding the digital: a common language for preservation

[Joy Davidson]

Decoding the digital: a common language for preservation

A Digital Preservation Coalition and Preservation Advisory Centre joint 
conference, exploring communication and promoting interaction between 
librarians, archivists and digital preservation managers. 

Tuesday 27 July 2010
British Library Conference Centre , 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, United 
Kingdom

This one day conference seeks to build on the communication between librarians, 
archivists, curators, conservators and digital preservation managers, and 
establish a shared understanding of the issues surrounding the preservation of 
digital collections. 

What are the similarities in our approach to the preservation of physical and 
digital collections, and where do the differences lie? The programme features 
pairs of speakers talking about the creation, management, preservation and use 
of digital collections. One speaker from each pair explores how use and access 
shapes approaches to digital preservation, and the other looks at the same 
issue from the technological perspective. The conference provides an 
introduction to digital preservation issues for the uninitiated and encourages 
those involved in the technology supporting digital preservation to learn how 
collections are developed and used. 

Programme
09.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome
10.15 A user's-eye view of digital content creation - Aly Conteh, British 
Library
10.40 Formats and standards for digital content - Stephen Gray, JISC
11.20 Break
11.40 Same as it ever was: significant properties and the preservation of 
meaning through time - Gareth Knight, CeRch
12.05 Using the Data Assessment Framework - Catherine Ward, University of 
Cambridge
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Cutting the beast down to size: the role of risk evaluation in 
determining preservation strategies - Richard Blake, TNA
14.10 Preservation in practice - what are the options? A case study - Alexandra 
Eveleigh, UCL
15.00 What users want - Michael Jubb, RIN
15.25 Frameworks for e-content - Neil Grindley, JISC
15.50 Discussion
16.30 Close

Cost £50 + VAT (including refreshments). 
To book please visit:  http://www.bl.uk/blpac/digital.html 

A number of sponsored places are available to DPC members. 
Members wishing to take advantage of one of these places should email DPC 
(i...@dpconline.org) by 20 July. 


Caroline Peach
Preservation Advisory Centre
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
United Kingdom