Preservation Risks

OPF Webinar: Securing funding for your digital preservation, with SPRUCE

Making the case to your organisation’s management, or to external funders, to adequately resource your digital preservation activities is not an easy task. Digital preservation is not always a straightforward sell. In this financial climate the justification for spending money has to be compelling and watertight. In this webinar Paul Wheatley will describe how to make the case for funding your digital preservation, with reference to the SPRUCE Project’s Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit.

* Making a compelling case to fund digital preservation
* The Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit from SPRUCE
* Getting started
* Other resources

There are twenty-five places available on a first come, first serve basis.

Date: Wednesday 27 November
Time: 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET
Duration: 1 hour
Session Lead: Paul Wheatley, SPRUCE Project Manager, University of Leeds
Date: 
27 November 2013
Event Types: 
Webinar
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Fund it, Solve it, Keep it (with SPRUCE)

How to fund and solve your digital preservation challenges

What will the event do for me?

This event will help to make your digital preservation more effective by demonstrating the best community focused approaches and results from the JISC funded SPRUCE Project. You’ll be hearing from the SPRUCE Team experts and from the practitioners and developers who have been tackling digital preservation challenges in targeted SPRUCE Award projects. We’ll also be hearing from you, so we can take on board what you need from our future work.

  • If you’re taking your first steps in preserving your digital assets we will demonstrate how to get started, where to get help, and how to make the case to resource your work more effectively.
  • If you’re already engaged in digital preservation we’ll show how your efforts can be supported more effectively with help from the community.

Key topics we will be covering include:

  • Securing funding for your digital preservation activities with the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit
  • Community approaches to solving digital preservation challenges
  • SPRUCE guides on how to assess your digital collections
  • Stabilising data stored on obsolete hand-held media
  • Results from the SPRUCE Award Projects

Who is this for?

Practitioners, developers and middle managers who are engaged (or would like to be engaged) in preserving their organisation’s digital assets.

When, where and how do I register?

The free event will take place at 11am on the 25th November at the brand new Library of Birmingham. Register your attendance here. Please note that anyone who registers for the event and then fails to attend without giving at least one week of notice will be liable for a £50 cancellation charge. Places are limited, so please don’t waste them!

Date: 
25 November 2013
Event Types: 
Conference
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Assessing file format risks: searching for Bigfoot?

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Last week someone pointed my attention to a recent iPres paper by Roman Graf and Sergiu Gordea titled “A Risk Analysis of File Formats for Preservation Planning“. The authors propose a methodology for assessing preservation risks for file formats using information in publicly available information sources. In short, their approach involves two stages:

Submitted by Johan van der Knijff on 30 September 2013 – 3:49pm

OPF Webinar – Digital library development and practice at the London School of Economics

This webinar will present a case study of digital preservation and digital library development at the London School of Economics. It will cover the nature of digital library collections we are working with now and a bit about our experiments and future directions for other kinds of born-digital material; the high-level architecture and functional components we have in place, and a discussion about our general approach and what we feel we can avoid having an opinion about for now; discussion of our user experience design process and how we are integrating this way of thinking into other areas of the library like our main website; and a bit about how we made the case to fund digital preservation and the development of our core team and how we involve others within the library.


Session lead: Ed Fay, Digital Library Manager, London School of Economics

Time: 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET

There are 25 places available which will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Registration will open soon.

Date: 
23 September 2013
Event Types: 
Webinar
Link: 
Webinar registration

Identification of PDF preservation risks: the sequel

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Submitted by Johan van der Knijff on 25 July 2013 – 12:57pm

Dissimilar: an experimental Image Quality Assurance tool

 

An important part of image file format migration is quality assurance. Various tools can be used such as ImageMagick or Matchbox, but they only provide one metric or are for different use-cases. I wanted to investigate implementation of image comparison algorithms so began investigating.

Submitted by William Palmer on 17 July 2013 – 12:50pm