Preservation for Repository Practitioners - Birmingham
27th May 2010
Main Meeting Room, Conference Aston, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET
This was one of two workshops jointly organised by the Repositories Support Project (RSP), the Welsh Repositories Network (WRN) and the Enhancing Repository Infrastructure in Scotland project (ERIS). It provided an overview of preservation issues and discussion on how repository managers could raise awareness of the need for preservation in their institutions. In addition, there was a demonstration of the PLATO tool created by the PLANETS Project which can be used to create a preservation policy and plan.
Programme
| Time | Description | More info. |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Registration & Refreshments | |
| 10:00 | Welcome – Dominic Tate & Jackie Wickham, University of Nottingham | |
| 10:05 | Introduction to Digital Preservation and Repositories – Clive Billenness, British Library | |
| 10:35 | Tea & Coffee | |
| 10:50 | Discussion Session 1 - Concerns, questions and capability to enact preservation – Clive Billenness, British Library | |
| 11:50 | Tool Presentation 1 - Creating a Policy Framework for Digital Curations – Sarah Jones, Curation Research Officer, Digital Curation Centre | Download |
| 12:50 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Tool Presentation 2 - PLATO – Clive Billenness, British Library | |
| 14:30 | Discussion Session 2 - Creating a preservation policy – Clive Billenness, British Library & Sarah Jones, Digital Curation Centre | |
| 15:45 | Feedback, action planning wrap-up & close – Dominic Tate & Jackie Wickham, University of Nottingham and Hannah Payne, Aberystwyth University |
Contact
For further information contact RSP.
Alternatively, email RSP Support or phone 0845 257 6860.
