This online members-only event will be held on the 17th of August from 6:30am to 7:30am UTC (click for local time).
Introduction
The DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model is a maturity modelling tool for digital preservation. With the concept of continuous improvement at its heart, it is considered to be of most value when used regularly to check in on progress and adjust targets. The DPC therefore encourages members to carry out a self-assessment using DPC RAM on an annual basis, and members are invited to share their results with the DPC. Using these results, the DPC can better understand its members and the challenges that they face.
This short and informal event provides an opportunity to hear from the DPC about the latest RAM results from members. Summary results from this year’s RAM assessments will be shared (fully anonymized of course) and members will be invited to discuss how they might use this benchmarking information and the maturity model going forward.
Agenda
Welcome
Introduction to DPC RAM
Member case study from Matthew Burgess, State Library of New South Wales
DPC RAM survey results and analysis
Q&A and discussion
Close
Who should come?
This event will be of interest to all DPC Members who are interested in assessing and tracking their organization’s digital preservation capabilities, setting targets and benchmarking against others.
Jen Mitcham, DPC - DPC RAM survey results and analysis
DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy
The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community and/or attending an event to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.
The National Library Singapore and National Archives of Singapore, in collaboration with Digital Preservation Coalition, are organising the following talks on 27th and 28th July 2022.
Join us as we hear from digital preservation experts on two exciting topics!
Computational access is a term that is mentioned with increasing frequency by those in the digital preservation community. Many practitioners are aware it might be helpful to them (and their users) but do not have a handle on what exactly it entails, how it is best applied and where to start. It is often linked, however imprecisely, with concepts like text mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence. It also raises professional and ethical concerns pertaining to data protection and sensitivity review. These well-founded but ill-formed concerns, in combination with the relative dearth of experience and know-how means computational access has been relatively slow to develop. And yet, preventing or constraining access seems to put archives and institutions on the wrong side of often-stated ambitions to unlock archives.
To help address this challenge, the DPC have been working with Software Sustainability Institute fellow Leontien Talboom on a getting started guide to computational access for the digital preservation community. Working with experts from across this domain we have been pooling community knowledge, case studies and tips to get started and have brought these together into a guide which intends to lower the barriers to getting started with computational access techniques.
Presentations will include a basic overview of the concepts and terminology, a selection of case studies from those working in this area and opportunity for discussion. Attendees should come away with some ideas for how they might try and employ these techniques going forward.
Computational access is a term that is mentioned with increasing frequency by those in the digital preservation community. Many practitioners are aware it might be helpful to them (and their users) but do not have a handle on what exactly it entails, how it is best applied and where to start. It is often linked, however imprecisely, with concepts like text mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence. It also raises professional and ethical concerns pertaining to data protection and sensitivity review. These well-founded but ill-formed concerns, in combination with the relative dearth of experience and know-how means computational access has been relatively slow to develop. And yet, preventing or constraining access seems to put archives and institutions on the wrong side of often-stated ambitions to unlock archives.
To help address this challenge, the DPC have been working with SSI fellow Leontien Talboom on a getting started guide to computational access for the digital preservation community. Working with experts from across this domain we have been pooling community knowledge, case studies and tips to get started and have brought these together into a guide which intends to lower the barriers to getting started with computational access techniques.
This event marks the launch of this guide and provides an opportunity to learn more about computational access. Presentations will include a basic overview of the concepts and terminology, a selection of case studies from those working in this area and plenty of opportunity for discussion and Q&A. Attendees should come away with some ideas for how they might try and employ these techniques going forward.
The DPC’s new Competency Framework was designed to identify the key competencies required to undertake successful digital preservation, whilst being flexible enough to be used for a variety of purposes, such as structuring professional development, aiding recruitment, and assessing curricula. The Framework builds on previous work in this area and from key good practice resources, particularly the DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model (DPC RAM).
A Competency Audit Toolkit will accompany the Competency Framework to help facilitate the audit of digital preservation skills at individual and organizational levels. Both the framework and audit toolkit can be used by anyone involved in digital preservation, including practitioners, managers, students, or educators.
DPC Member Preview Webinar – Timing and Program
The hour-long member preview webinar will be held on 15th June 2022 at 07:00 UTC (19:00 NZST/17:00 AEST/15:00 SGT/09:00 SAST & CEST/08:00 BST click here to see your local time). Please note there is a repeat of this webinar at 14:00 UTC, registration for that time can be found here.
The program will include:
Welcome
Developing the New Resources – Sharon McMeekin
Introduction to the Competency Framework – Amy Currie
Walk-through of the DPC Competency Audit Toolkit – Sharon McMeekin
Q&A
Wrap-Up and Future Plans
Recordings (DPC Members, please log in to view)
Developing the New Resources – Sharon McMeekin
Introduction to the Competency Framework – Amy Currie
Walk-through of the DPC Competency Audit Toolkit – Sharon McMeekin
The DPC’s new Competency Framework was designed to identify the key competencies required to undertake successful digital preservation, whilst being flexible enough to be used for a variety of purposes, such as structuring professional development, aiding recruitment, and assessing curricula. The Framework builds on previous work in this area and from key good practice resources, particularly the DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model (DPC RAM).
A Competency Audit Toolkit will accompany the Competency Framework to help facilitate the audit of digital preservation skills at individual and organizational levels. Both the framework and audit toolkit can be used by anyone involved in digital preservation, including practitioners, managers, students, or educators.
DPC Member Preview Webinar – Timing and Program
The hour-long member preview webinar will be held on 15th June 2022 at 14:00 UTC (16:00 SAST & CEST/15:00 BST/10:00 EDT click here to see your local time). Please note this webinar is also at 07:00 UTC, registration for that time can be found here.
The program will include:
Welcome
Developing the New Resources – Sharon McMeekin
Introduction to the Competency Framework – Amy Currie
Walk-through of the DPC Competency Audit Toolkit – Sharon McMeekin
Q&A
Wrap-Up and Future Plans
Recordings (DPC Members, please log in to view)
Developing the New Resources – Sharon McMeekin
Introduction to the Competency Framework – Amy Currie
Walk-through of the DPC Competency Audit Toolkit – Sharon McMeekin
Many organizations create and use geospatial data to carry out and support their work and of course some of this information will have longer term value. This is particularly so for those organizations charged with managing and decommissioning nuclear sites. Knowing exactly which buildings were where will be of huge importance to future generations long after the physical traces of a site are no longer apparent. It is no surprise therefore that the preservation of geospatial data has been raised as a concern during the DPC’s project with the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority leading to this briefing day on the topic.
This online event will be of interest to anyone who wants to find out how a range of different organizations manage and preserve geospatial data at various points in its lifecycle. As well as hearing from the Nuclear Decommissioning sector on how they have been managing their geospatial data over the last twenty years, we will hear from the digital preservation and geospatial data community about recent work on standards, metadata and file formats. A range of organizations will share case studies on how they are preserving, enhancing and providing access to geospatial datasets. As always there will be opportunities for Q&A and discussion and we will be discussing what else the DPC can do to move this topic forward for the community.
The DPC’s Technology Watch Report on 'Preserving Geospatial Data' by Guy McGarva, Steve Morris and Greg Janée was published in 2009 and is now due for revision. Does this report still offer useful guidance? How much has this topic moved on over recent years? What is missing? http://doi.org/10.7207/twr09-01
The DPC released a much shorter Technology Watch Guidance Note on 'Preserving GIS' last year. This was part of a series of Data Types Guidance Notes commissioned with Artefactual Systems. This short note tries to summarises some of the main preservation challenges, file formats, standards and methods for preserving geospatial data. Does it capture and summarise the key areas well? http://doi.org/10.7207/twgn21-16
This briefing day is an output of the DPC’s project with the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and our thanks go to them for supporting this work.
DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy
The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community and to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) invites you to join us for an online celebration of our 20th Anniversary!
Watch the DPC's 20th Anniversary Video
Members of the DPC community around the world are invited to attend, hear from and chat to some of our founding and existing members, take part in party games and help us launch the 2022 Digital Preservation Awards, which will also celebrate the DPC’s 20 years.
When: Friday 25th February, 14:00 - 15:00 UTC, with an additional 30 mins ‘Mingle’ after the event using our HiFidelity platform 15:00 – 15:30 UTC
Where: Zoom and HiFidelity
Who: All are welcome
Outline program:
Welcome and introductions
Reflections from our founders: How it started…
How it's going! – first screening of the DPC’s 20th Anniversary video
Party games, including the results of the Digital Preservation World Cup
Launch of the 2022 Digital Preservation Awards
Wrap-Up and Thanks
Mingle and chat
What to bring:
Supply your own favourite party food and drink to enjoy while we chat.
Your best birthday party outfit – just because we’re meeting online doesn’t mean we shouldn’t dress for the occasion!
DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy
The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent - the same applies to all of our DPC events. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.
The DPC Web Archiving and Preservation Working Group (WAPWG) is pleased to announce details of our next General Meeting – which will be free and open to everyone.
Web archiving provides the means for collecting organisations to capture, preserve and make available time-stamped archival copies of information published on the Web, before this content changes and is lost forever.
Rather wonderfully, a strong and active global community of practice exists around web archiving, and a rich array of open source tools are available to download, use, and incorporate into new and existing digital preservation operations. Nevertheless, the Web is a digital medium which is in a permanent state of flux, and this is forcing collecting organisations to reconsider how they archive, in order to effectively capture increasingly diverse content from increasingly diverse platforms; from text and tweets, to Google Sheets and Facebook.
In order to analyse and break-down this challenge, we invite colleagues and practitioners to join us for a ‘Workflow Workshop’, in which participants will have the opportunity to showcase their respective web archiving workflows, and learn from one another in a friendly and open virtual forum. Focusing on the web archiving ‘capture’ function (i.e. how to collect content from the Web in the first place), this workshop will concentrate on open source tools, and virtual collaboration on any technical or collecting challenge that participants would like to share. In turn, premiered workflows from the workshop will be published on COPTR, where they will reside beside other real-life digital preservation workflows as a permanent source of information, contact and inspiration for the wider community.
We hope to make this the first in a series of Workflow Workshops, addressing other key functions of the web archiving process: QA, access, appraisal etc.
Agenda
1300 - Welcome and introductions
1315 - Tools and workflows presentations
Kirsty Fife – Supporting grassroots communities in the use of web archiving tools
Sara Day Thomson and Anisa Hawes - Using Archiveweb.page (and Replayweb.page) to capture the Carmichael Watson project web resource at the University of Edinburgh
The National Archives - Using Browsertrix at The National Archives (UK)
Dan Kercher – Social Feed Manager demo
Carl Davies – Using instaloader at the BBC
1430 - Q and A
1445 - Break
1500 - Tools and workflows breakout discussions
1515 - Feedback (plenary)
1530 - Workflow editathon
1630 - Round-up and Q&A
1645 - Close
Who Should Come?
Delegates from any institution currently archiving web content or planning to archive web content. This might include:
Web archivists or curators with responsibility for selecting, managing, and preserving web content
Archivists or curators who include, or are looking to include, web content as part of collections
Librarians, research support and research data and information specialists who support researchers and institutions using web content and web-based data
Records managers who include, or are looking to include, web content as part of corporate records
IT specialists looking to build support for the collection and preservation of web content
Managers, directors, and policy-makers responsible for fulfilling institutional mandates and policies for preserving web content
Note that this is a general event, and colleagues who are just considering web archiving for the first time are very welcome.
Kourosh Feissali and Michael Tobin – Using Browsertrix at The National Archives (DPC members, please log in to view)
DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy
The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community and attending this session to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.
Please also note the section on "Community Values, Vendor Neutrality and Conflicts of Interest" in the WAPWG TOR which is linked from this page.
In April 2020 we held a webinar on ‘Enacting Environmentally Sustainable Preservation’ (DPC Members login to access the recording). In a follow up blog post, we mentioned we’d be keen to see how ideas raised in this webinar were incorporated into future digital preservation projects and initiatives going forward. Revisiting this topic we intend to explore how a range of digital preservation practitioners are addressing the issue, in particular how considerations around environmental sustainability are being incorporated into decision making and ‘business as usual’ activities.
This two-hour webinar (timed to coincide with COP26 in Glasgow) will consist of a set of short case studies from a range of organizations who are taking steps to respond to this urgent global challenge, including a reflection on how the DPC itself is engaging with the issue of environmental sustainability. There will be time allocated for questions and wider discussion on the issues raised and participants are invited to continue the discussion and chat informally in a virtual lounge setting (using the High Fidelity platform) after the webinar.
Recordings (DPC Members, please log in to view)
Michaela Hart, Victoria State Government Department of Health - Hope in the Anthropocene - Connecting to archival long game
William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition - Reflections and discussion
DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy
The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community and to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.
