The University of London DART team are delighted to be opening bookings for the second course in the new DPTP programme. This is a one-day course, ‘DPTP: Web Archiving 101‘, and it will be held in Senate House, London, on 17th October 2016.

This course is one day long. It is a course aimed at anyone who has a specific interest in capturing, selecting and using web content for any kind of research and who also need to ensure that web content can persist and endure in an accessible and useable preservation environment.

The course will teach the basics of web archiving. It explores who is doing web archiving currently, how it can be useful, who uses web archives and why. It explains the selection process for content, records management and business needs, available tools and outsourcing as an option. It will also cover legal aspects of web archiving and the issues around the archiving of social media.

We ran the course in 2015, and have updated it for this year, working with Sara Day Thomson of the DPC and Dr. Peter Webster of Webster Research & Consulting who will be guest tutors on the day. For a taste of what the course holds, listen to our podcast -  http://dart.blogs.ulcc.ac.uk/2015/04/23/podcast-number-2-web-archiving-101/  and here how a previous student, Dr Marta Teperek of Cambridge University about how she used the course in her work - http://dart.blogs.ulcc.ac.uk/2015/11/02/web-archiving-and-research-data/ 

For details of the full programme for the day and to book a place, see the course booking page.

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