Webinars

OPF Webinar – From the Preservation Toolkit: JHOVE2

This webinar will give an overview of JHOVE2, the free and open-source tool for characterizing digital objects. It will cover the motivation for creating a second-generation version of JHOVE some of the new features of the tool, including the ability to perform not just format identification, validation, and feature extraction, but also assessment (a policy-based determination of the acceptability of a format instance, regardless of its validation). It will discuss JHOVE2’s more sophisticated data model of a format instance, embracing complex digital objects that can be composed of more than one file, each of a possibly different format. It will provide pointers on JHOVE2’s setup and use. It will briefly introduce the tool’s architecture, and ways in which it has been and can continue to be extended to include more formats, building on existing libraries and tools.

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

Date: Friday 31 Janaury
Time: 09:00 EST / 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET
Duration: 1 hour
Session Lead: Sheila Morrissey, Portico

Date: 
31 January 2014
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Webinar
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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
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Scalable Environments for File Format Identification and Characterisation

This webinar provides an introduction to file format identification and characterisation tools which have been developed or extended as part of the SCAPE Project.

It covers the basic principals of file format identification, and shows how format information drives digital preservation workflows.

Participants will be given an overview of file format registries, and their role in digital preservation, and will see demonstrations of identification and characterisation tools including fido and tika.

We will provide a Virtual Machine image with samples files and step-by-step worksheets to allow participants to try out these exercises for themselves after the webinar with support.

Learning outcomes (by the end of the webinar and exercises, participants
will be able to):

  • Distinguish between different file types and identify the requirements for characterising each of them.
  • Carry out identification and characterisation experiments on example files.
  • Compare characterisation and identification tools and understand their advantages and disadvantages when used in different scenarios.


Session Lead: Carl Wilson, OPF
Date: Friday 25 October
Time: 12 noon BST / 13:00 CET
Duration: 1 hour (please note this includes the presentation and demonstrations. Practical exercises can be carried out after the webinar).

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

Date: 
25 October 2013
Event Types: 
Webinar
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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
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Webinar
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OPF Webinar – Capturing and Analyzing Forensic Disk Images with BitCurator

*all places have now been filled*

In this webinar, we’ll be examining the benefits of capturing and preserving forensically-packaged disk images in collecting institutions. Along the way, we’ll get some hands on experience with the open source BitCurator environment, freely available as a virtual machine download from http://wiki.bitcurator.net/.

Some of the topics we’ll be exploring:
– Forensic disk image formats, and capturing forensic disk images with Guymager
– Extracting and analyzing potentially private and sensitive information from imaged media
– File system analysis using The Sleuth Kit and fiwalk
– Generating reports using custom BitCurator tools

Session lead: Kam Woods, School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina

Time: 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST / 16:00 CET

Duration: 1 hour

There are 25 places available. These will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

Date: 
9 August 2013
Event Types: 
Webinar
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OPF Webinar – bwFLA Part II CD-ROM Ingest and Scientific Processes

Demonstrating Digital Preservation on Demand: Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS) – CD-ROM Ingest and Scientific Processes.

This webinar will cover:

*bwFLA Digital Preservation Demonstration
*bwFLA and CD-ROM Ingest
*bwFLA and Scientific Processes

Session Lead: Annette Strauch, University of Ulm

Time: 12 noon BST / 13:00 CET

Register at http://opf-bwfla-scientific.eventbrite.co.uk/

Date: 
26 June 2013
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Webinar – C3PO, an introduction to content profiling

This webinar will focus on content profiling and preservation planning. It aims to address the following questions:

  • Why do we need identification and characterisation?
  • How can we use the metadata that these processes provide?

It will cover some of the tools that are available and there will be a demonstration of C3PO (Clever, Crafty, Content Profiling of Objects) tool, and an explanation of how you can analyse the metadata it produces.

Session Lead: Petar Petrov, Creative Pragmatics

Time: 13:00 BST / 14:00 CET

Register at: http://opf-c3po.eventbrite.co.uk/

Date: 
31 May 2013
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Webinar
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Webinar: Software Development with OPF

This webinar will outline a set of simple steps that together provide a light, pragmatic, and consistent methodology for software development. Developers will learn how to ensure their software is used and tested as quickly as possible. Practitioners will find out how they can get help improve the quality of OPF Software projects, and influence future developments. The session WILL NOT cover techie issues such as unit testing or code comments, although it will cover continuous integration. The session WILL cover the OPF’s guidelines for use of online services such as GitHub, Travis-CI, and BinTray.

Learning Outcomes (by the end of the session attendees will be able to:)

  • Describe the OPF software projects lifecycle

  • Ensure that software is described and documented so others can find it, install it, and test it.

  • Use the Travis Continuous Integration service

  • Use GitHub to version software for release

  • Use GitHub Issues to report bugs, and suggests improvements.

Time: 12 noon BST / 13:00 CET

Duration: 1 hour

Session Lead: Carl Wilson

Date: 
29 April 2013
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Webinar
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Fmt/known…? Problems with format identification at New Zealand National Library

Date: 
22 February 2013
Event Types: 
Webinar
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OPF Webinar: Digital Preservation at your Command – part II

31 January 2013 12 noon GMT / 13:00 CET.

In ‘Digital Preservation at your Command – Part I, attendees learned how to find content, create a checksum, identify files and create a basic manifest / profile. (The recording of this webinar can be seen here: http://openplanetsfoundation.org/opf-webinars-recordings).

This webinar will show the difference between the command line interfaces of MS-DOS, Linux and Apple. We will show how you can have tools work together and how to create a custom directory listing command which adds file format information to its output. Similar results can be achieved in MS-DOS, Linux and Apple, there is no need to install anything.

Session lead: Maurice de Rooij, National Archives of The Netherlands

This webinar will cover:

  • Comparison of command line interfaces (DOS, Linux, Apple)
  • Invoking a command line application
  • Input/output and redirection of a command line application
  • Using command line applications to create custom functionality

Who should attend?
Practitioners with basic IT skills looking to get some hands on experience of using command line tools perform some basic digital preservation tasks.

Developers who are new to Digital Preservation, or inexperienced with the use of linux command line tools.

Registration

Registration is open at: http://dp-at-your-command-ii.eventbrite.co.uk. The webinar will also be recorded and released at a later date.

Date: 
31 January 2013
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