The KEEP Approach To Digital Preservation 29 - 30 November 2011, Rome

Over a 6 month period, KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) is running a series of free-to-attend 2-day workshops around Europe intended for:

• Anyone with responsibility for the preservation of collections of digital material where emulation might become part of their preservation strategy
• IT specialists with responsibility for supporting digital preservation activities
• Anyone with a professional, commercial or academic interest in the use of emulation tools and services

Registration is now open at http://keep-rome.eventbrite.com
These workshops will include sessions on the following topics:

• The business and technical justification for including emulation within a preservation strategy
• Legal issues when using emulation tools
• Media transfer : presentation, discussion and demonstration
• KEEP Emulation Framework : presentation (architecture, tools and services), discussion, demonstration and testing
• Metadata in an emulation environment : presentation, discussion, demonstration and testing
• The KEEP Virtual Machine : architecture, portability and functionalities
• Interactive sessions about innovative services within emulation, computer science and video game communities
• There will also be demonstrations of the KEEP tools and opportunities for delegates to test them for themselves and, we hope, provide us with details of their requirements and feedback