A spot of Gardening: Weeding the Open Planets Foundation Format Corpus
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.
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!
Software Museums (Archives)
During and around this year’s iPRES a couple of discussions sprung up around the topic of proper software archiving and it was part of the DP challenges workshop discussions. With services emerging around emulation as e.g. developed in the bwFLA project (see e.g.
Open Research Challenges in Digital Preservation: Call for contributions!
Following the community response to our workshop last year, we want to invite you again to contribute your future preservation challenge!
Preservation capabilities: How to assess? How to improve?
Digital Preservation is making certain progress in terms of tool development, progressive establishment of standards and increasing activity in user communities, but there is a wide gap of approaches to systematically assess, compare and improve how organizations go about achieving their preservation goals.
Software Archiving for EaaS
The typical digital artefact or complex object does not function (render, execute, …) without a certain software environment. Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS) provides original environments running in platform emulators. Depending on the (complex) object to be handled, several software components are required to reproduce an original environment.
PASIG Dublin
Ipres 2012 (Preservation Health Check workshop at the PREMIS Implementation Fair)
The PREMIS Implementation Fair Workshop is part of a series that has been held in conjunction with iPres. Implementers of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata convene to discuss topics of common interest, implementation issues, and find out about latest developments. Topics will include: an update on PREMIS activities; changes in the PREMIS Data Model; enhancement of preservation rights metadata in version 2.2; and the developing PREMIS OWL ontology. Contributions will be solicited for presentations about specific PREMIS implementations. A session will be devoted to exploring the use of real life preservation metadata for risk assessment in conjunction with a pilot conducted by the Open Planets Foundation and OCLC. This activity will engage the wider digital preservation community, e.g. maintainers of preservation metadata schemas, format registration tools, and risk assessment tools. An approach for mapping preservation metadata schema with preservation risk assessment frameworks will be proposed based on real life examples.