Open Planets Foundation – A community hub for digital preservation

15 – 17 November 2010
International Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Registration is now open for the Open Planets Foundation’s first Practitioners’ Workshop and Developers’ Hackathon.

The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) invites digital preservation practitioners, users and developers who are interested in becoming a part of the OPF open source community, to join us to discuss your requirements, present and future, from the OPF products and services.

This is an opportunity not only to shape the future direction of the OPF product roadmap, but also to become part of the OPF community of digital preservation specialists and benefit from shared knowledge and experience.

Agenda

Who should attend?
Practitioners / Users
Digital preservation staff: digital librarians and archivists, digital curators and analysts, repository managers and those with requirements for digital preservation planning.

Developers
Digital preservation software developers, developers from organisations interested in using OPF/Planets digital preservation software, IT support staff and digital preservation practitioners with hands-on technical / development skills (using Java, PHP etc.)

Why attend?

• Meet practitioners and users who face similar digital preservation challenges
• Discuss functionality and system requirements for Plato, Testbed, LIFE3 and registry services
• Solve problems with an experienced user / development group
• Help to define the future direction of development for the OPF
• Establish standards for collaborative coding

Day 1: Exploring Requirements
Join digital preservation practitioners, users and developers to gain a common understanding of the opportunities and challenges confronting organisations involved in digital preservation. Explore existing and new requirements of the Planets suite and third party tools; sessions will focus on the Plato planning tool, the Testbed, the LIFE3 costing tool and registry services.

In the afternoon, practitioners will create use cases in break-out sessions for the subsequent developers’ hackathon.

Day 2 & 3: Hackathon
Collaborate with developers to investigate the technical potential of existing Planets prototypes and demonstrators. Have face-to-face discussions with the designers and developers of the Planets tools and services and agree strategies for enhancing the suite to meet practitioners’ requirements.

The hackathon aims to establish the OPF developer community and enable a managed development process providing improved and maintainable code. It will also help to define the development lifecycle from specification to implementation.

Agenda

Registration
Morning and afternoon coffee breaks and lunch will be provided.
The event is free-of-charge to attend.
OPF member organisations will receive priority when allocating places.
Registration is now closed