OPF Hackathon – A Practical Approach to Database Archiving

The large and growing volume of data held in an increasing variety of relational databases presents a huge challenge to the archiving community. This hackathon is designed to bridge the gap between digital preservation practitioners and developers. It will provide a forum for practical problem solving and help practitioners to articulate their requirements clearly to developers; and will help developers respond more precisely to the needs of practitioners.

Who should attend?

Digital preservation practitioners; digital librarians and archivists, digital curators, repository managers and those with a responsibility for or an interest in database archiving.

Developers who write digital preservation software, who have a responsibility for testing and implementing database archiving solutions, or are interested in the technical challenges of preserving databases.

Why attend?

This event will consider SIARD (http://www.bar.admin.ch/dienstleistungen/00823/00825/index.html?lang=en) as a potential archiving standard and review its implementation at the Danish National Archives as well as discussing other existing practical solutions, for example, MIXED (http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en/content/categorieen/projecten/mixed-migration-intermediate-xml-electronic-data)and RODA (http://redmine.keep.pt/documents/3). During the event we will run requirements workshops and facilitate hands-on hack-sessions to address the issues of preserving databases. There will also be demonstrations of existing tools as well as opportunities to discuss alternative solutions such as emulation.

Registration

Registration is now open at: http://opfdatabasearchiving.eventbrite.co.uk/

Further information

For more information visit: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/2012-02-07+OPF+Hackathon+-+A+Practical+Approach+to+Datatbase+Archiving