Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets.

Date: 29th July 2008
Venue: British Library Conference Centre, London.

PLANETS and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) will be holding a joint briefing day: Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets, on the 29th of July 2008, at the British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, London.

The event will be an informal and interactive workshop allowing attendees to share knowledge and experience in digital preservation planning, setting strategy and policy plus first-hand experience of Planets tools and technology.

Attendees will also hear from DPC members about the approaches they have used in their organisations and the outcomes. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and for discussion.

Planning is crucial to the process of preserving digital information and data. Planets has taken preservation planning as its research focus. From mid 2010, Planets will deliver downloadable software to help organisations plan and execute preservation activities.

Benefits of attendance

Understanding of aspects of preservation planning, policy and strategy setting
Real-life insight into other organisations' approaches to preservation planning
Awareness of the range of services and tools Planets will deliver
Hands-on experience of Plato, Planets' preservation planning tool
Insight into identifying the characteristics of digital objects
Understanding of working in a testbed environment
An opportunity to ask questions and for discussion

Who should attend?

The event will appeal to anyone involved at any stage in digital preservation policy, strategy and planning cycle. (e.g. librarians archivists, digital librarians and archivists, repository mangers, software developers, vendors, policy managers etc and others working in a wide range of settings).

Programme

Time	Presentation	Speaker
9.00	Registration and coffee
Morning Session Chair - Frances Boyle, DPC
9.30	Welcome. Digital Preservation Planning - issues, challenges and requirements	Prof. Kevin Schürer, UKDA
10.15	Introduction to Planets - an overview	Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
10.45	Constructing a Preservation Policy: the case of the UK Data Archive	Matthew Woollard, UKDA
11.15	Break and Coffee
11.30	Going Digital: The Case of the Wellcome Library	Natalie Walters, Wellcome Library
12.00	Preservation Planning (Part 1): Workflow and the Plato tool	Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology
12.30	Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair - Frances Boyle, DPC
13.15	Preservation Planning (Part 2): Simulation and practical exercises	Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology
14.30	Characterisation	Manfred Thaller, University of Cologne
15.00	Break and Coffee
15.15	Testbed - a walk-through	Matthew Barr, HATII, University of Glasgow
16.15	Interactive discussion session	Prof. Kevin Schürer, UKDA
17.15	End

Key to acronyms:

JISC	Joint Information Systems Committee
PLANETS	Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services
UKDA	UK Data Archive
HATII	Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow

Fees and registration

The fee for the event is �75.00 per head. Due to the nature of the event there is an upper capacity of 60 delegates.

Registration for the event is via the British Library Box Office at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/whatson/exhibitions/boxoffice.html Follow the link to the online Box Office, select July 2008 and then scroll down to DPC Planets workshop to Buy Tickets.

(Note that the event is FREE for DPC members. DPC members should register at www.dpconline.org/members/main/080729DPCPlanetsReg.html

Registration for this event is now closed. Should you wish to make an enquiry please contact Jane Humphreys at: jane.humphreys@bl.uk tel: 01937 546748.

Morning and afternoon coffee breaks and a buffet lunch will be provided. Please note participants may be invited to bring a wireless enabled laptop.

Further information

If you have any further queries or require additional information, please contact:

Jane Humphreys
Communications Officer, Planets
The British Library
Boston Spa, Wetherby
West Yorkshire
LS23 7BQ
e-mail: jane.humphreys@bl.uk
tel: +44 (0) 1937 546748
web: http://www.planets-project.eu/