When: Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:30 - 17:30 UTC+1 (click for local times)

Where: Zoom

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn in response to a current theme which reflects member interests. 

DPC Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

When: Tuesday 17 May 2022, 17:00 - 18:00 UTC+1 (click for local times)

Where: Zoom

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn in response to a current theme which reflects member interests. 

DPC Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

When: Friday 13 May 2022, 12:00 - 13:00 UTC+1 (click for local times)

Where: Zoom

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn in response to a current theme which reflects member interests. 

DPC Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

When: Thursday 12 May 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 UTC+1 (click for local times)

Where: Zoom

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn in response to a current theme which reflects member interests. 

DPC Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

When: Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:30 - 14:30 UTC+1 (click for local times)

Where: Zoom

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn in response to a current theme which reflects member interests. 

DPC Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

When: Tuesday 10 May 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 UTC+1 (click for local times)

Where: Zoom

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn in response to a current theme which reflects member interests. 

DPC Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

When: Monday 9 May 2022, 13:00 - 14:00 UTC+1 (click for local times)

Where: Zoom

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn in response to a current theme which reflects member interests. 

DPC Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

Free to attend and open to all, the Digital Preservation Workflow Webinar series will showcase just some of the digital preservation workflow processes developed and implemented by DPC Member institutions.

Each speaker will present their workflow, which represents a part of the digital preservation process or a particular digital media or content type, before we open the floor for discussion and a chance to ask questions.

The digital preservation community is invited to join the online re-launch of COPTR, on the 15th of July 2021 at 11AM CET (click for local times).

More and more tools are becoming available to secure digital collections for the future. Are you looking for information about preservation tools? Do you want to know which of these tools are the most developed? Or do you want to share your own knowledge? Then COPTR is the place to be!

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member interests. 

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member interests. 

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member interests. 

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member interests. 

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member interests. 

Recordings of Workflows Webinar Series (DPC Members please login to view)

20th April, 1300 - 1430 (UK)

Episode 1: Preparations and ingest

• Business planning with Jaye Weatherburn, University of Melbourne

• Pre-ingest checks and ingest preparation for digital legal deposit material with Roxana Maurer, Bibliotheque nationale du Luxembourg

• Ingest to Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) with Fabi Barticioti, LSE Library

22nd April, 1300 - 1430 (UK)

Episode 2: Tools, systems and digitisation

• Ingest to Preservica using Jester with Chris Jones, State Library of South Australia

• Archivematica workflow with Jenny A Brook, National Library of Wales 

•   AV digitisation workflows with Harkiran Dhindsa and Ashley Ray, Wellcome Collection

COW-a-thon Event 

28th April, 1330 - 1515 (UK)

A recurring request from digital preservation practitioners has been for a community forum in which they can share and exchange experience on how they use tools in combination - in short - pool their knowledge about digital preservation workflows. Following a discussion by one of the groups at the iPRES 2016 workshop: "OSS4Pres 2.0: Building Bridges and Filling Gaps", a lightweight wiki based approach to sharing workflows was established – and the COW (Community Owned Workflows) was born.

Now, following on from our short series of Workflow Webinars, the DPC invites the digital preservation community to share their own workflows by submitting these to the COW during this hackathon style event.

Outline event program

1330 – 1340       Welcome and Introduction to the Cow-a-thon (Paul Wheatley, DPC)  

1340 – 1350       What we can learn from sharing workflows (Cal Lee, University of North Carolina/OSSArcFlow and Hannah Wang, Educopia)

1350 – 1400       How to COW (Paul Wheatley, DPC)

1400 – 1500       Share your workflows with the COW! Independent working    

1500 – 1505       Feedback from submitters

1505 – 1515       What’s next for the COW? (Paul Wheatley, DPC)

1515                    Wrap up, thanks and close

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. 

Join us for a short series of three webinars as we talk to each of our Digital Preservation Awards winners in turn, to discover their lessons learned from 2020 and plans and aspirations for the future.

Recordings:

• Tuesday 8^th December (16:30 - 17:30 GMT) :  ‘Levels of Born Digital Access’ and ‘NDSA Levels’

• Wednesday 9^th December (15:00 - 16:00 GMT) : ‘Digital Records Curation Programme’ and Student Award Winner, Lotte Wijsman

• Thursday 10^th December (14:00 - 15:00 GMT) : ‘UNHCR Records and Archives’ and the ‘UK Web Archive’

Inclusion and Diversity

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.

For the last two years the DPC has been working with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) on a digital preservation project - ‘Reliable, Robust and Resilient Digital Infrastructure for Nuclear Decommissioning’.

A key element of this project was the desire to contribute to the wider DPC community and also to learn from others. This webinar has been scheduled to share information about the project as the two-year project comes to an end and plans for a further phase of work are put in place.

The webinar will include a short summary of the project, highlighting why the project was initiated and what has been achieved. This will be followed by a panel session where key project staff will be invited to reflect on their project highlights, lessons learnt and future challenges. There will also be opportunities for attendees to put questions to the panel in an open Q&A session.

 Recording (DPC Members log in to view)

  Slides for this event can be accessed here. 

Agenda

• Welcome, housekeeping and intros (William Kilbride, DPC)

• Brief introduction to the project - how did it all start and why? (Simon Tucker, NDA)

• Summary of work carried out (Jenny Mitcham, DPC)

• Panel session (led by William Kilbride, DPC) 

  • Martin Denvir, Head of Information Management, Sellafield

  • Jenny Mitcham, Head of Good Practice and Standards, DPC

  • Bob Radford, Information Governance Lead, Magnox

  • Gordon Reid, Nuclear Archivist, NDA

  • Martin Robb, Information Governance Programme Manager, NDA

• Future plans (Jenny Mitcham, DPC)

• Q&A and discussion

• Close

The project team are keen to have the involvement and feedback of the wider membership so do join us!

Having a clear idea of the current state of your digital preservation capabilities can greatly aid how you plan to enhance your capacity and operations. The DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) is a digital preservation maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organisation’s digital preservation capability.

The DPC invites everyone interested in benchmarking their digital preservation capabilities to attend this webinar, which will include an overview of the RAM and details of how to use it. Some DPC members will also join us to share their experience getting started with using the RAM.

Ever wondered how to get started with preserving digital materials? What would you ask a panel of digital preservation experts given the chance? What is the one thing you’d like to know about digital preservation?

As International Archives Week approaches, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to co-host ‘digital preservation day’ on Wednesday 10^th June! To mark the occasion, we would like to invite you to join us for a webinar on digital preservation.

In this webinar, the DPC will introduce the theme of digital preservation and archiving digital materials before handing over to a panel of digital preservation practitioners to describe ‘what they wish they knew’ before embarking on their digital preservation journey.

The second half of the webinar is your chance to talk to the panel of digital preservation experts!

The panellists will answer questions and discuss with attendees how to get started or make progress with digital preservation challenges. If time runs out, any further questions will be answered in a follow up blog post.

This webinar will take place in English, with the option to ask questions in English and French. Questions for the panel in any other language will be followed up after the event.

Speakers:

• Adrian Brown, UK Parliamentary Archives
• Angeline Takawira, UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
• Anna McNally, University of Westminster
• Dorothy Waugh, University of York
• Margaret Crockett, International Council on Archives
• Sarah Middleton, DPC

Watch the Recording:

Outline Program:

• Welcome and introductions
• What is digital preservation anyway?
• Panellist perspectives: What I wish I knew before I started working in digital preservation…
• Discussion – questions for the panel

Read the follow up blog post

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member concerns. Attendees may then pose their own questions on how Supporters might manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

The 'Digital Preservation Futures' webinar series accompanies our ‘Connecting the Bits’ Members Unconference and associated event ‘A Guide to Digital Preservation Procurement: Launch Event, Workshop and Briefing,’ both of which will be held online on 23rd and 24th June.

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member concerns. Attendees may then pose their own questions on how Supporters might manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

The 'Digital Preservation Futures' webinar series accompanies our ‘Connecting the Bits’ Members Unconference and associated event ‘A Guide to Digital Preservation Procurement: Launch Event, Workshop and Briefing,’ both of which will be held online on 23rd and 24th June.

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member concerns. Attendees may then pose their own questions on how Supporters might manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

The 'Digital Preservation Futures' webinar series accompanies our ‘Connecting the Bits’ Members Unconference and associated event ‘A Guide to Digital Preservation Procurement: Launch Event, Workshop and Briefing,’ both of which will be held online on 23rd and 24th June.

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member concerns. Attendees may then pose their own questions on how Supporters might manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

The 'Digital Preservation Futures' webinar series accompanies our ‘Connecting the Bits’ Members Unconference and associated event ‘A Guide to Digital Preservation Procurement: Launch Event, Workshop and Briefing,’ both of which will be held online on 23rd and 24th June.

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member concerns. Attendees may then pose their own questions on how Supporters might manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

The 'Digital Preservation Futures' webinar series accompanies our ‘Connecting the Bits’ Members Unconference and associated event ‘A Guide to Digital Preservation Procurement: Launch Event, Workshop and Briefing,’ both of which will be held online on 23rd and 24th June.

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member concerns. Attendees may then pose their own questions on how Supporters might manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

The 'Digital Preservation Futures' webinar series accompanies our ‘Connecting the Bits’ Members Unconference and associated event ‘A Guide to Digital Preservation Procurement: Launch Event, Workshop and Briefing,’ both of which will be held online on 23rd and 24th June.

CAE Technologies supports end user customers in planning, designing and deploying their physical infrastructure for storage, archive and digital preservation projects, working collaboratively to pull software, hardware and systems into a cohesive solution.  Attend this webinar to understand how CAE work to maximise project and technology investments, while future-proofing your valuable archived materials.

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member concerns. Attendees may then pose their own questions on how Supporters might manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

The 'Digital Preservation Futures' webinar series accompanies our ‘Connecting the Bits’ Members Unconference and associated event ‘A Guide to Digital Preservation Procurement: Launch Event, Workshop and Briefing,’ both of which will be held online on 23rd and 24th June.

This series of webinars will showcase the product and service offerings of each of our DPC Supporters in turn, before the DPC staff invite speakers to respond on a series of themes which represent our understanding of member concerns. Attendees may then pose their own questions on how Supporters might manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

The 'Digital Preservation Futures' webinar series accompanies our ‘Connecting the Bits’ Members Unconference and associated event ‘A Guide to Digital Preservation Procurement: Launch Event, Workshop and Briefing,’ both of which will be held online on 23rd and 24th June.

The cultural heritage community has engaged with environmental sustainability in many areas, but is only beginning to explore the sustainability concerns of digital preservation activities. Building off of a recent American Archivist article (“Toward Environmentally Sustainable Digital Preservation”), in which the authors argue that truly sustainable practice will come only from critical examination of the underlying motivations and assumptions of current digital preservation practices, the authors will introduce the sustainability framework proposed in the article and facilitate group discussion to apply this thinking to participants' own organizational contexts and identify existing holes in research.

Presenters

• Keith Pendergrass, Harvard Business School

• Walker Sampson, University of Colorado Boulder

• Tim Walsh, Artefactual Systems

• Laura Alagna, Northwestern University

Watch the Recording: 

DPC Members & Supporters please log in.

Following on from Episodes One and Two on different approaches to capturing web content, Episode Three invites speakers and participants to discuss the challenges of integrating web archives into existing collections. The episode will address issues such as:

• choosing tools or services for capture for different types of content

• understanding the output of different web archiving tools or services

• metadata for archived web content

• curating WARCs and turning them into AIPs

• incorporating web archiving into collecting and preservation policies

These issues all impact how researchers and users, now and in the future, access and experience archived web content. Web archives can stand alone as rich and valuable collections, but can also provide a richer and more nuanced context to other, related collection items. Linking archived web content to other content - publications, exhibitions, or datasets - can supplement and enhance an end user’s experience. Curating web content and making it discoverable so that researchers and end users can make this link, however, is not always straightforward. 

Speakers on this webinar will each provide a 15 minute overview of integrating web archiving into their current collecting and preservation practices. These short talks will be followed by a period of questions and discussions, including speaker responses to some set questions to help highlight different approaches and contexts. 

Speakers

• Lynn Bruce, Eve Wright, Barbara Fuentes & Garth Stewart, National Records of Scotland

• Arran Rees, Researcher in Social Media Collecting for Museums, University of Leeds

Watch the Recording

Watch this 90-minute webinar:

DPC Members & Supporters please log in.

More about this Series

This series of five webinars provides an overview of several core themes of work in the capture, management, and preservation of web content, from institutional webpages to social media datasets. Each of the five episodes will investigate one or more important components of web archiving through the experiences of practitioners. Invited speakers will share the knowledge and insight they have acquired along the way through case studies and practical examples. These presentations will set the stage for a wider discussion, where attendees can pose questions and share experiences of their own.

The webinar series is hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition as part of the Web Archiving & Preservation Working Group (WAPWG).

See the list of Episodes.

Following on from Episode One on large-scale approaches, this episode examines alternative methods of archiving web content, focusing on smaller scale tools and strategies that suit particular content types or more focussed collecting.

Episode Two: Approaches & Tools - DIY & Microservices provides an overview of how to do web archiving yourself, whether you’re an archivist for a small organisation, a research data manager looking for ways to support web-based research outputs, or a web curator at a large institution looking for a tool for a specific job. It will introduce different tools for different needs and demonstrate how those tools can be applied to relevant content types. Speakers will provide high level demos of a few handy tools and services and suggest possible ways of integrating open source tools into workflows. Overall, this episode will present some methods for getting started on best practice for archiving web content yourself.

Speakers on this webinar will each provide a 15 minute overview of approaches, tools, and services that support doing web archiving yourself or through small, targeted services. These short talks will be followed by a period of questions and discussions, including speaker responses to some set questions to help highlight different approaches and contexts.

Speakers

• Dan Kerchner & Laura Wrubel, Social Feed Manager, George Washington University

• Martin Klein, Memento Tracer Framework, Los Alamos National Laboratory (About Memento Tracer)

• Anna Perricci, Webrecorder, Consultant (Watch a demo!)

Watch the Recording

Watch this 90-minute webinar:

DPC Members & Supporters please log in.

More about this Series

This series of five webinars provides an overview of several core themes of work in the capture, management, and preservation of web content, from institutional webpages to social media datasets. Each of the five episodes will investigate one or more important components of web archiving through the experiences of practitioners. Invited speakers will share the knowledge and insight they have acquired along the way through case studies and practical examples. These presentations will set the stage for a wider discussion, where attendees can pose questions and share experiences of their own.

The webinar series is hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition as part of the Web Archiving & Preservation Working Group (WAPWG).

See the list of Episodes.

Launching the Web Archiving & Preservation Webinar Series , Episode One will feature three speakers discussing Approaches & Tools - Large-scale and Collaborative.

This episode introduces approaches and tools for capturing web archives with scalable services or collaborative programmes. Speakers will address strategies for large-scale web archiving, where volume necessitates automation for efficient capture and search functionality. The webinar will also reflect on the limitations of automation and how it can be used realistically in different contexts. It also provides information on making use of national and international web archiving initiatives, such as the Internet Archive and the UK Web Archive.

Speakers on this webinar will each provide a 15 minute overview of approaches, tools, and services that support scalable web archiving for different sectors and different types of archives. These short talks will be followed by a period of questions and discussions, including speaker responses to some set questions to help highlight different approaches and contexts. 

Speakers

• Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive
• Nicola Bingham and Helena Byrne, British Library & UK Web Archive
• Abigail Grotke, Library of Congress

Watch the Recording

Watch this 90-minute webinar to hear about approaches and tools for large-scale and collaborative web archiving to better understand how these approaches might work for you.

DPC Members & Supporters please log in.

More about this Series

This series of five webinars provides an overview of several core themes of work in the capture, management, and preservation of web content, from institutional webpages to social media datasets. Each of the five episodes will investigate one or more important components of web archiving through the experiences of practitioners. Invited speakers will share the knowledge and insight they have acquired along the way through case studies and practical examples. These presentations will set the stage for a wider discussion, where attendees can pose questions and share experiences of their own.

The webinar series is hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition as part of the Web Archiving & Preservation Working Group (WAPWG).

See the list of Episodes.

In this Members-only webinar, Jenny Mitcham (Head of Good Practice and Standards at the DPC) will share some of the work that has been carried out in the first year of a two year project with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA): ‘Reliable, Robust and Resilient Digital Infrastructure for Nuclear Decommissioning’.

She will share some of the highlights of the project so far, including work that has been carried out on a preservation policy for the NDA,  maturity modelling (including the creation of the DPC Rapid Assessment Model) and some of the case studies that are emerging from the project.

Key to this project is desire to contribute to the wider DPC community and also to learn from it. The project team are keen to have the involvement and feedback of the wider membership so do come along!

DPC Members please login to watch the recording.

DPC's Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) was launched as a DPC Member benefit in September 2019. More information about DPC RAM including a recording from an introductory Members-only webinar can be accessed on the DPC RAM web pages.

In this Member's only webinar the DPC will summarise DPC Member engagement with RAM and present anonymised statistics and analysis collected from DPC Members. 

There will also be ample opportunity for Q&A, discussion and feedback on DPC RAM.

DPC Members please login watch the recording

Members, please sign in to watch the recording

This members-only webinar introduces the DPC's newest member benefit - the Rapid Assessment Model (RAM).

Topics include:

• how and why it was created
• who it is for
• how it should be used
• benefits for DPC members
• how to give feedback

We are joined by DPC Members who have already applied the RAM. They share some observations about the model and how it might help them move forward with digital preservation within their own institutions.

Speakers

• Jenny Mitcham, Head of Good Practice and Standards at the DPC
• Paul Wheatley, Head of Research and Practice at the DPC

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. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.

Members are invited to join us to discuss and validate some key actions for the DPC’s next 12-month program of activities. Activities will be based on themes extracted from Full Member lightning videos and proposed as a result of a subsequent Sub-Committee review.

Members are invited to join us to discuss and validate some key actions for the DPC’s next 12-month program of activities. Activities will be based on themes extracted from Full Member lightning videos and proposed as a result of a subsequent Sub-Committee review.

The themes for discussion will be published in advance.

If you can't make this session, we will be holding another Members Lounge Special at 15:00 BST on 14^th June 2019.

This series of webinars accompanies the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum in Dublin on 2nd July.

Featuring our DPC Supporters in turn, these webinars will showcase product and service offerings before the DPC's Paul Wheatley challenges each to respond on a series of themes which represent (his interpretation of) member concerns. Members may then pose their own questions on how Supporters would manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

This is a late addition to the webinar series, and we are delighted to welcome Artefactual to the DPC Supporter Program and to the Webinar Series.

Speakers

• Sarah Romkey
• Justin Simpson
• Kelly Stewart

Watch the recording

DPC Members and Supporters please log in to wath the recording

What's next?

The digital preservation community has many parts; those who create data, the curators who are charged with looking after our digital legacy, solution providers who support the preservation process and those who consume the digital information successfully and continuously preserved. These groups cannot operate independently and alone, each relies on the others to do their bit, to enable the sustained and immediate access to digital information we have all come to expect.

An extension of the DPC Member’s ‘Connecting the Bits’ feedback process which will take place over the preceding months, and this accompanying webinar series, the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019 is a half-day event which will provide a neutral forum to summarise the key challenges anticipated by members, before inviting speakers from our DPC Supporters to collaborate and develop new ideas.

Find out more about the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019

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. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.

The National Archives (UK) is exploring the creation of a new evidence base for Digital Preservation Risk. 

An evidence based risk model is a fundamental tool in building inclusive digital archival practice for the future, and The National Archives team proposes a new approach to trust, offering a “bottom-up” data driven alternative to the familiar standards-based approaches, which cannot readily accommodate diverse contexts and different priorities.

This webinar will provide an overview of the National Archives' work in this area, presenting a framework for describing and explaining a complex and interdependent map of risk events, risk management actions and impact on preservation outcomes. The work will allow the comparison and prioritization of different types of threats to the digital archive with potential impact in different areas. 

Speakers

• Sonia Ranade, Head of Digital Archiving at The National Archives, UK
• Alec Mulinder, Head of Digital Risk and Standards at The National Archives, UK

Joining the Webinar

DPC Members, please login to watch the recording

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. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.

This series of webinars accompanies the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum in Dublin on 2nd July.

Featuring our DPC Supporters in turn, these webinars will showcase product and service offerings before the DPC's Paul Wheatley challenges each to respond on a series of themes which represent (his interpretation of) member concerns. Members may then pose their own questions on how Supporters would manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

Speaker

• Peter Anderton, VP Product Management for Preservica

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What's next?

The digital preservation community has many parts; those who create data, the curators who are charged with looking after our digital legacy, solution providers who support the preservation process and those who consume the digital information successfully and continuously preserved. These groups cannot operate independently and alone, each relies on the others to do their bit, to enable the sustained and immediate access to digital information we have all come to expect.

An extension of the DPC Member’s ‘Connecting the Bits’ feedback process which will take place over the preceding months, and this accompanying webinar series, the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019 is a half-day event which will provide a neutral forum to summarise the key challenges anticipated by members, before inviting speakers from our DPC Supporters to collaborate and develop new ideas.

Find out more about the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019

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. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.

This series of webinars accompanies the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum in Dublin on 2nd July.

Featuring our DPC Supporters in turn, these webinars will showcase product and service offerings before the DPC's Paul Wheatley challenges each to respond on a series of themes which represent (his interpretation of) member concerns. Members may then pose their own questions on how Supporters would manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

Speakers

• Ben Saxton
• Luke Murphy

Resources

Watch four recent webinars by Formpipe on their Long Term Archive product

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What's next?

The digital preservation community has many parts; those who create data, the curators who are charged with looking after our digital legacy, solution providers who support the preservation process and those who consume the digital information successfully and continuously preserved. These groups cannot operate independently and alone, each relies on the others to do their bit, to enable the sustained and immediate access to digital information we have all come to expect.

An extension of the DPC Member’s ‘Connecting the Bits’ feedback process which will take place over the preceding months, and this accompanying webinar series, the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019 is a half-day event which will provide a neutral forum to summarise the key challenges anticipated by members, before inviting speakers from our DPC Supporters to collaborate and develop new ideas.

Find out more about the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019

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. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.

This series of webinars accompanies the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum in Dublin on 2nd July.

Featuring our DPC Supporters in turn, these webinars will showcase product and service offerings before the DPC's Paul Wheatley challenges each to respond on a series of themes which represent (his interpretation of) member concerns. Members may then pose their own questions on how Supporters would manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

Watch the recording

DPC Members and Supporters please login to watch the recording

What's next?

The digital preservation community has many parts; those who create data, the curators who are charged with looking after our digital legacy, solution providers who support the preservation process and those who consume the digital information successfully and continuously preserved. These groups cannot operate independently and alone, each relies on the others to do their bit, to enable the sustained and immediate access to digital information we have all come to expect.

An extension of the DPC Member’s ‘Connecting the Bits’ feedback process which will take place over the preceding months, and this accompanying webinar series, the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019 is a half-day event which will provide a neutral forum to summarise the key challenges anticipated by members, before inviting speakers from our DPC Supporters to collaborate and develop new ideas.

Find out more about the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019

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. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.

This series of webinars accompanies the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum in Dublin on 2nd July.

Featuring our DPC Supporters in turn, these webinars will showcase product and service offerings before the DPC's Paul Wheatley challenges each to respond on a series of themes which represent (his interpretation of) member concerns. Members may then pose their own questions on how Supporters would manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

Speakers

• Harriet Christie
• Chris Doyle

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What's next?

The digital preservation community has many parts; those who create data, the curators who are charged with looking after our digital legacy, solution providers who support the preservation process and those who consume the digital information successfully and continuously preserved. These groups cannot operate independently and alone, each relies on the others to do their bit, to enable the sustained and immediate access to digital information we have all come to expect.

An extension of the DPC Member’s ‘Connecting the Bits’ feedback process which will take place over the preceding months, and this accompanying webinar series, the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019 is a half-day event which will provide a neutral forum to summarise the key challenges anticipated by members, before inviting speakers from our DPC Supporters to collaborate and develop new ideas.

Find out more about the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019

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. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.

This series of webinars accompanies the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum in Dublin on 2nd July.

Featuring our DPC Supporters in turn, these webinars will showcase product and service offerings before the DPC's Paul Wheatley challenges each to respond on a series of themes which represent (his interpretation of) member concerns. Members may then pose their own questions on how Supporters would manage their concerns in a question and answer session.

DPC Members are encouraged to attend the webinar sessions as Supporter products and services form an important part of how we address the digital preservation challenge. This series aims to present - in the context of member concerns - a portion of the digital preservation marketplace offerings, in order to help members identify what is still missing and community needs.

Speakers

• Sinead McKeown
• Matthew Addis
• Paula Keogh

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What's next?

The digital preservation community has many parts; those who create data, the curators who are charged with looking after our digital legacy, solution providers who support the preservation process and those who consume the digital information successfully and continuously preserved. These groups cannot operate independently and alone, each relies on the others to do their bit, to enable the sustained and immediate access to digital information we have all come to expect.

An extension of the DPC Member’s ‘Connecting the Bits’ feedback process which will take place over the preceding months, and this accompanying webinar series, the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019 is a half-day event which will provide a neutral forum to summarise the key challenges anticipated by members, before inviting speakers from our DPC Supporters to collaborate and develop new ideas.

Find out more about the Digital Preservation Futures: Community Forum 2019

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. It encourages diversity in all its forms and is committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation. The DPC asks all those who are part of this community and/or attending a DPC event be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.

The Digital Preservation Awards 2018 (DPA2018) Winners Webinar Series provides an opportunity to learn more about some of the latest and best digital preservation initiatives, recently celebrated by the Digital Preservation Awards on World Digital Preservation Day 2018 in Amsterdam.

Each episode explores the winning entry for each category of the Digital Preservation Awards, providing an overview of each initiative, investigating how their work might be used within the community, and providing an opportunity for discussion with awards winners.

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The Digital Preservation Awards 2018 (DPA2018) Winners Webinar Series provides an opportunity to learn more about some of the latest and best digital preservation initiatives, recently celebrated by the Digital Preservation Awards on World Digital Preservation Day 2018 in Amsterdam.

Each episode explores the winning entry for each category of the Digital Preservation Awards, providing an overview of each initiative, investigating how their work might be used within the community, and providing an opportunity for discussion with awards winners.

Watch the Recording

The Digital Preservation Awards 2018 (DPA2018) Winners Webinar Series provides an opportunity to learn more about some of the latest and best digital preservation initiatives, recently celebrated by the Digital Preservation Awards on World Digital Preservation Day 2018 in Amsterdam.

Each episode explores the winning entry for each category of the Digital Preservation Awards, providing an overview of each initiative, investigating how their work might be used within the community, and providing an opportunity for discussion with awards winners.

Watch the Recording

The Digital Preservation Awards 2018 (DPA2018) Winners Webinar Series provides an opportunity to learn more about some of the latest and best digital preservation initiatives, recently celebrated by the Digital Preservation Awards on World Digital Preservation Day 2018 in Amsterdam.

Each episode explores the winning entry for each category of the Digital Preservation Awards, providing an overview of each initiative, investigating how their work might be used within the community, and providing an opportunity for discussion with awards winners.

Watch the Recording

The Digital Preservation Awards 2018 (DPA2018) Winners Webinar Series provides an opportunity to learn more about some of the latest and best digital preservation initiatives, recently celebrated by the Digital Preservation Awards on World Digital Preservation Day 2018 in Amsterdam.

Each episode explores the winning entry for each category of the Digital Preservation Awards, providing an overview of each initiative, investigating how their work might be used within the community, and providing an opportunity for discussion with awards winners.

EPISODE 1: ePADD ePADD is free and open source software developed by Stanford University Libraries and partners that supports the appraisal, processing, preservation, discovery, and delivery of email archives ofpotential historical or cultural value. Over the past five years, ePADD has pioneered the application of machine learning and natural language processing to confront challenges that collection donors,archivists, and researchers routinely face in donating, administering, preserving, or accessing email collections. This includes screening email for confidential, restricted, or legally-protected information, preparing email for preservation, and making the resulting files (which incorporates preservation actions taken by the repository) discoverable and accessible to researchers. Join this webinar to find out more about ePADD's capabilities and how you might use it in your organisation. Speakers Glynn Edwards, Stanford University Libraries Josh Schneider, Stanford University Libraries Peter Chan, Stanford University Libraries Resources Find out more about ePADD Discover ePADD Watch an interview with Josh at the Digital Preservation Awards 2018

Natalie Harrower and Neil Chue Hong present Josh Schneider with the Software Sustainability Institute Award for Research and Innovation

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The Legal Possibilities for Software Preservation Miniseries builds on the Software Preservation Webinar Series that ran from April 23 - May 30, 2018. This miniseries explores the legal challenges associated with preservation, sharing and reuse of software. Guests discuss their current advocacy work and next steps for legal strategy around software preservation.

The Miniseries and the Software Preservation Webinar Series are both jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network.

Episode 7: Licensing and Other Legal Approaches

Facilitators:  Jess Whyte (University of Toronto), Paula Jabloner (Computer History Museum), Jessica Meyerson (Educopia Institute)

Guests:

• Andrew Charlesworth (University of Bristol)
• Brandon Butler (University of Virginia)
• Burkhard Schafer (University of Edinburgh)

Discussion Questions:

1. Describe the relevant legal considerations when discussing software preservation and reuse in a research context.
2. Describe your work in this area – who you are working with and your methods for understanding the current state of the field.
3. What can digital preservation practitioners do in order to ensure that software dependency concerns are heard and taken in toconsideration by law/policy makers?

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(Runtime 53 mins)

Supplementary Resources

Websites & Blogs

United States Legal Context:

• Albert, Kendra. (2016). The Angry Birds in the Coal Mine . RIT MAGIC Invited Speaker Series, March 3rd, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB0hPZUMc1o&feature=youtu.be
• Intellectual Property Rights Issues for Software Emulation: An Interview with Euan Cochrane, Zach Vowell, and Jessica Meyerson, by Morgan McKeehan, The Signal, January 22, 2016
• The United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) 1201 Rulemaking  (exemption to break technological protection measures in the service of software preservation)
  • Copyright.gov/1201 – the U.S. Copyright Office homepage for the 1201 process for 2018
  • Software Preservation Network/Library Copyright Alliance Petition, Comments, and Reply Comments (see Class 9) in support of an exemption for software preservation
  • Software Preservation Network 1201 Additional Comments in support of Society of American Archivists “all lawful uses” proposal.
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation: Association for Research Libraries project landing page
• The Copyright Permissions Culture in Software Preservation and Its Implications for the Cultural Record—Best Practices Phase 1 Report
• How Is an App Like a Player Piano? And Does That Help the Fair Use Case for Software Preservation?—Brandon Butler, The Taper blog
• What’s Eating Software—Brandon Butler, The Taper blog
• Digital Preservation and Copyright, by Peter Hirtle

Canadian Legal Context

• Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) Statutory Review of the Copyright Act: http://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=9897131,
• Link to submitted brief requesting an exception for circumventing technical protection measures (currently being translated to French): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHQrINvwSeEao_rOEVmWjdCxsBid4UVxlIk5eI5jn7w/edit?usp=sharing

Articles & Reports

United Kingdom Legal Context

• Charlesworth, Andrew. (2012) Intellectual Property Rights for Digital Preservation: DPC Technology Watch Report 12-02 2012, https://www.dpconline.org/docs/technology-watch-reports/796-dpctw12-02/file
• Kemper, Jakko; Kolkman, Daan. (2018) Transparent to whom? No algorithmic accountability without a critical audience, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1477967
• Rowland, D., Kohl, U. & Charlesworth, A. (2016) Information Technology Law. 1 Aug 2016 5th ed. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Schafer, Burkhard; Edwards, Lilian. (2017). ‘“I spy, with my little sensor”: Fair data handling practices for robots between privacy, copyright and security’, Connection science, Vol 29, pp 200-209
• Schafer, Burkhard; Komuves, David; Zatarain, Jesus Niebla. Diver, Laurence. (2015).  ‘A fourth law of robotics?: Copyright and the law and ethics of machine co-production’, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol 23, pp 217-240
• Schafer, Burkhard. (2015). ‘D-waste: Data disposal as challenge for waste management in the Internet of Things’, International Review for Information Ethics, Vol 22, pp 100-106

United States Legal Context

• Whitt, Richard S. (2017).  ‘Through a Glass, Darkly’ — Technical, Policy, and Financial Actions to Avert the Coming Digital Dark Ages. Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2016. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2742388

Ongoing Discussion

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The Legal Possibilities for Software Preservation Miniseries builds on the Software Preservation Webinar Series  that ran from April 23 - May 30, 2018. This miniseries explores the legal challenges associated with preservation, sharing and reuse of software. Guests discuss their current advocacy work and next steps for legal strategy around software preservation. 

The Miniseries and the Software Preservation Webinar Series are both jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network.

Episode 6: Overview of Current Trends and Their Legal Implications

Research Lead and Facilitator:  Jessica Meyerson (Educopia Institute)

Guests:

• Andrew Charlesworth (University of Bristol)
• Brandon Butler (University of Virginia)
• Kendra Albert (Harvard University)

Discussion Questions:

1. Describe the relevant legal considerations when discussing software preservation and reuse in a research context.
2. Describe your work in this area – who you are working with and your methods for understanding the current state of the field.
3. What can digital preservation practitioners do in order to ensure that software dependency concerns are heard and taken in toconsideration by law/policy makers?

Watch the webinar recording

(Runtime 58 mins)

Read the Chat from the webinar: Episode 6

Supplementary Resources

Websites & Blogs

United States Legal Context:

• Albert, Kendra. (2016). The Angry Birds in the Coal Mine . RIT MAGIC Invited Speaker Series, March 3rd, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB0hPZUMc1o&feature=youtu.be
• Intellectual Property Rights Issues for Software Emulation: An Interview with Euan Cochrane, Zach Vowell, and Jessica Meyerson, by Morgan McKeehan, The Signal, January 22, 2016
• The United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) 1201 Rulemaking  (exemption to break technological protection measures in the service of software preservation)
  • Copyright.gov/1201 – the U.S. Copyright Office homepage for the 1201 process for 2018
  • Software Preservation Network/Library Copyright Alliance Petition, Comments, and Reply Comments (see Class 9) in support of an exemption for software preservation
  • Software Preservation Network 1201 Additional Comments in support of Society of American Archivists “all lawful uses” proposal.
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation: Association for Research Libraries project landing page
• The Copyright Permissions Culture in Software Preservation and Its Implications for the Cultural Record—Best Practices Phase 1 Report
• How Is an App Like a Player Piano? And Does That Help the Fair Use Case for Software Preservation?—Brandon Butler, The Taper blog
• What’s Eating Software—Brandon Butler, The Taper blog
• Digital Preservation and Copyright, by Peter Hirtle

Canadian Legal Context

• Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) Statutory Review of the Copyright Act: http://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/INDU/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=9897131,
• Link to submitted brief requesting an exception for circumventing technical protection measures (currently being translated to French): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PHQrINvwSeEao_rOEVmWjdCxsBid4UVxlIk5eI5jn7w/edit?usp=sharing

Articles & Reports

United Kingdom Legal Context

• Charlesworth, Andrew. (2012) Intellectual Property Rights for Digital Preservation: DPC Technology Watch Report 12-02 2012, https://www.dpconline.org/docs/technology-watch-reports/796-dpctw12-02/file
• Kemper, Jakko; Kolkman, Daan. (2018) Transparent to whom? No algorithmic accountability without a critical audience, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1477967
• Rowland, D., Kohl, U. & Charlesworth, A. (2016) Information Technology Law. 1 Aug 2016 5th ed. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Schafer, Burkhard; Edwards, Lilian. (2017). ‘“I spy, with my little sensor”: Fair data handling practices for robots between privacy, copyright and security’, Connection science, Vol 29, pp 200-209
• Schafer, Burkhard; Komuves, David; Zatarain, Jesus Niebla. Diver, Laurence. (2015).  ‘A fourth law of robotics?: Copyright and the law and ethics of machine co-production’, Artificial Intelligence and Law, Vol 23, pp 217-240
• Schafer, Burkhard. (2015). ‘D-waste: Data disposal as challenge for waste management in the Internet of Things’, International Review for Information Ethics, Vol 22, pp 100-106

United States Legal Context

• Whitt, Richard S. (2017).  ‘Through a Glass, Darkly’ — Technical, Policy, and Financial Actions to Avert the Coming Digital Dark Ages. Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2016. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2742388

Ongoing Discussion

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Following ‘Connecting the Bits’ DPC Member Unconference, this episode will be concluded with a wrap up and summary from the DPC team who will outline a plan of member events, activities, publications and work for the coming year. Members will be invited to make further suggestions and recommendations, before the plan is published as the DPC Prospectus for 2018-2019.

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Following the inaugural Digital Preservation Futures Community Forum, and based on the emerging themes, trends and priorities identified at the event, this episode will gather together representatives from each of our Supporters again to hear their plans for the coming year in response to these discussions. Members will be invited to ask further questions about how these solutions might meet their particular needs and upcoming challenges.

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In this episode DPC Supporters Preservica will introduce their digital preservation products and services, before we hear a user case study on identifying requirements and engaging with the solution. In the final portion of the episode, and drawing from their customer feedback, Preservica will go on to identify the challenges they see emerging in the next five years in an open discussion with members in attendance.

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Supplementary information

• SaaS Portfolio DatasheetSaaS Portfolio Datasheet

Future-proofing your digital preservation now with Arkivum

With so many priorities and demands on peoples' time, we understand how easy it is to let your digital preservation and data safeguarding requirements slip down the to-do list. Until there is a problem, that is, and you lose that all important digital asset. We've all been there, and the frustration after the event of not taking action sooner is unbearable.

Dr Matthew Addis and Paula Keogh from Arkivum talk about why it's important to act now and provide support on how to pull together a compelling business case that your stakeholders can't say no to. Arkivum real-life users talk about how they achieved this, and why it was important for them to take action when they did.

Matthew and Paula close the session identifying challenges and trends they see emerging in the next five years in an open discussion with members in attendance.

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Supplementary Information

1. 'Producing a Business Case for Digital Preservation' eBook

In this episode Phil Clegg and Phil Odgen from MirrorWeb introduce their web and social media archiving products and services, before being joined by Tom Storrar at The National Archives UK to discuss identifying web archiving requirements and engaging with the solution.

In the final portion of the episode, and drawing from their customer feedback, MirrorWeb identify the challenges they see emerging in the next five years in an open discussion with members in attendance.

Members and Supporters log in to watch the recording

Supplementary information

1. Set up a free demo archive
2. Video with John Sheridan, The National Archives 
3. 'Delivering long-term value with secure, scalable, cloud-native digital archiving' eBook
   
4. The National Archives Web Archive Service Agreement

The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion with attendees.

The webinar series is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network.

EPISODE 5: Scaling Software Preservation and Emulation

This episode explores current programmatic and project based initiatives to create the processes and infrastructure that will support a growing number of software (re)use cases/organizational users. Our first use case highlights challenges and opportunities associated with scaling an institutional software preservation program. Our second use case highlights the challenges and opportunities associated with scaling software preservation across institutions.

Research Lead and Facilitator:  

• Paul Wheatley (Digital Preservation Coalition)

Guests

• Euan Cochrane (Yale University)
• Maureen Pennock (British Library)
• Klaus Rechert (OpenSLX and University of Freiburg)

Discussion Questions:

1. Define scale in the context of your project. How is scale different from growth?
2. Are there aspects of software preservation that are not in scope for your project or program to tackle, but are nevertheless crucial to the long-term success of your project or programmatic goals?

Sharing experiences and perspectives is critical to understanding the hurdles in software preservation, to imagining future use of software-dependent data, and to forming a mutual understanding of where collective action is necessary to facilitate those future uses so we hope you will join the discussion.

The webinar series is free to attend and open to all.  

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(Runtime 54 mins)

  Read the Chat from the webinar: Episode 5

Supplementary Resources

Websites & Blogs

Emulation as a Service (EaaS) at Yale University Library:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2014/08/emulation-as-a-service-eaas-at-yale-university-library/

Example of emulated content at Yale University Library
https://twitter.com/euanc/status/998599100311490562

Scaling Emulation as a Service Infrastructure Project
http://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi/

Articles, Reports & Presentations

ARL Best Practices for Fair Use in Software Preservation
http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/copyright-ip/fair-use/code-of-best-practices-in-fair-use-for-software-preservation

Cochrane, E. (2013). “Rendering Matters.” Archives New Zealand.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130218111126/http:/archives.govt.nz/rendering-matters-report-results-research-digital-object-rendering
and examples from the report:
http://archives.govt.nz/resources/information-management-research/rendering-matters-report-results-research-digital-object-0

Day, M., Pennock, M., May, P., Davies, K., Whibley, S., Kimura, A., Halvarsson, E. (2016). “The preservation of disk-based content at the British Library – Lessons from the Flashback project.” http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0955749016669775

“Integrated Preservation Suite” in the 2017-2020 BL Digital Preservation Strategy: https://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/collectioncare/digitalpreservation/strategy/BL_DigitalPreservationStrategy_2017-2020.pdf

Interview with Dirk von Suchodoletz about PLANETS and Emulation: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012/12/the-foundations-of-emulation-as-a-service-an-interview-with-dirk-von-suchodoletz-part-one/

Rechert, K., Liebetraut, T., Stobbe, O., Lubetzki, N., Steinke, T. (2017).
“Integrating emulation into library reading rooms”
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0955749017725427?journalCode=alaa

Rosenthal, D. (2016). Emulation & Virtualization as Preservation Strategies:
https://mellon.org/media/filer_public/0c/3e/0c3eee7d-4166-4ba6-a767-6b42e6a1c2a7/rosenthal-emulation-2015.pdf

Scott, J. (2017) “20 Minutes into the Emulation Future.” Created for the Digital Preservation Coalition Halcyon and On Emulation Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuIOJD2xbjY&t=1s 

Ongoing Discussion

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The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion with attendees.

The webinar series is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network.

EPISODE 4: Software in Digital/Scholarly Communications

This episode provides an overview of scholarly communication practices as they relate to software preservation and citation within contemporary scholarly research methods. Attention is paid to evolving and changing practices in a variety of institutional settings (e.g. post-secondary institutions, GLAMs, nonprofits), and to the need for disciplinary responsiveness in publication and citation practices.

Research Lead and Facilitator:  

• Elizabeth Parke (McGill University)

Guests:

• James Howison (University of Texas at Austin)
• Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati (Vanderbilt University)
• Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustinability Institute)

Discussion Questions:

1. Where (and when) can software preservation discussions enter into the research process? Especially in terms of disciplines such as the humanities where issues of software creation, preservation, and emulation are in the initial stages of development.

2. What role can training take in order to facilitate scholarly communication practices within and beyond institutional boundaries? E.g. outward facing blogs as well as internal communication re. Best practices, workflows etc.

3. What teams/groups should be involved in discussions of software in digital/scholarly communications? How can SPN or other collectives work to build strong networks?

4. Where do you see software in digital/scholarly communications in the next 5 years? 10 years?

Sharing experiences and perspectives is critical to understanding the hurdles in software preservation, to imagining future use of software-dependent data, and to forming a mutual understanding of where collective action is necessary to facilitate those future uses so we hope you will join the discussion.

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Websites & Blogs

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Scholarly Communications Program: https://sloan.org/programs/digital-technology/scholarly-communication
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholarly Communications Program: https://mellon.org/programs/scholarly-communications/
• Bucknell’s Digital Scholarship Workflow: http://dsc.bucknell.edu/files/2016/08/Digital_Scholarship-Flowchart_ver3.pdf
• CiteAs: https://github.com/Impactstory/citeas-api/
• “Climategate” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy
• Developers and researchers on cross-functional teams that use digital collections: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2015/06/bl-labs-competition-winners-for-2015.html#  
• FLOSS mole: https://flossmole.org/
• FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Group https://www.force11.org/group/software-citation-implementation-working-group
• Haters Gonna Hate - why you shouldn't be ashamed of releasing your code https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2016-10-06-haters-gonna-hate-why-you-shouldnt-be-ashamed-releasing-your-code
• James Howison“Peer Production” course syllabus: https://jameshowison.github.io/peer_production_course/pp_syllabus.html
• London School of Economics and Political Science. Impact Blog. “101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication: how researchers are getting to grip with the myriad new tools” http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/11/11/101-innovations-in-scholarly-communication/
• London School of Economics and Political Science. Impact Blog. Digital collections offer researchers opportunities to develop new skills and scholarly communications networks. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2017/02/02/digital-collections-offer-researchers-opportunities-to-develop-new-skills-and-scholarly-communications-networks/
• Scholarly and Research Communication Vol 7 No. 2/3 (2016) AND CfP for Theme: The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Algorithms, Bots, Usage Data, Big Data, Visualization, and AI (Questions? Contact Monique Sherrett This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
• Software Sustainability Institute. “How to Describe and Cite Software.” https://www.software.ac.uk/how-cite-and-describe-software
• 4OSS recommendations: Recommendations to encourage best practices in research software from the Open Source Software Working Group, supported by ELIXIR, SSI and the Netherlands eScience Center: https://softdev4research.github.io/recommendations/
• University of Toronto Scholarly Communications Guide: https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/ScholarlyPublishing

Articles, Reports & Presentations

• Manifesto from Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 16252. Engineering Academic Software. “serving as a roadmap towards future professional software engineering for software-based research instruments and other software produced and used in an academic context. The manifesto is expressed in terms of a series of actionable “pledges” that users and developers of academic research software can take as concrete steps towards improving the environment in which that software is produced.”http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/7146/pdf/dagman-v006-i001-p001-16252.pdf
• Practice papers from the International Digital Curation Conference (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/international-digital-curation-conference-idcc) are published afterwards in the IJDC: http://www.ijdc.net/
• Software as a Well-Formed Research Object, DLF 2017 Presentation https://www.slideshare.net/yasmina85/software-as-a-wellformed-research-object
• The Pathways of Research Software Preservation: An Educational and Planning Resource for Service Development

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The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode will explore a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion with attendees.

The webinar series is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network.

EPISODE 3: Software (Re)Use Cases

The “collections as data” initiative centers user communities and use cases in discussions about collection development. This episode will highlight research use cases for software collections, and explore whether and how the “collections as data” approach is a useful response to the unique challenges of collecting, preserving and providing access to software?

Research Lead and Facilitator:  

• Andrea Altenbach (Studio Gang)

Guests:

• Matthew Allen (University of Toronto)
• Eric Kaltman (Carnegie Mellon University)

Discussion Questions:

1. How does software factor in to your research? How do you utilize software as data/as a research object?

2. What are the unique qualities of software as data/as a research object?

3. How/Where do you access the software you have used in your research?

4. Do you think that the practice of creating/writing software is a requirement for the study of software as a research object?

5. Which "Collections as Data" tools/documentary methods (position statements, facets, personas) have the greatest impact potential for software preservation efforts?

Sharing experiences and perspectives is critical to understanding the hurdles in software preservation, to imagining future use of software-dependent data, and to forming a mutual understanding of where collective action is necessary to facilitate those future uses so we hope you will join the discussion.

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Supplementary Resources

Websites & Blogs

• Collections as Data, https://collectionsasdata.github.io/
• Cooper Hewitt Labs, https://labs.cooperhewitt.org/category/ch-3-0/
• Matthew Allen’s research on academia.edu, https://matthewallen.academia.edu/research  
• Eric Kaltman’s research, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Nyi5tjYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
• The Santa Barbara Statement on Collections as Data. Retreived from https://collectionsasdata.github.io/statement/
• Collections as Data National Forum 2 recording, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENaPV2XmO9I

Articles, Reports & Presentations

• Padilla, T. (2016) On a Collections as Data Imperative. Retrieved from http://digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/dcs16/tpadilla_OnaCollectionsasDataImperative_final.pdf
• Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access. Sept 2016, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.. Retrieved from http://digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/dcs16.html
• Designing the Future Landscape: Digital Architecture, Design, and Engineering Assets. Nov 2017, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.. Retreived from http://digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/ade/ade2017.html
• Newman,J.(2011). (Not) Playing Games: Player-Produced Walkthroughs as Archival Documents of Digital Gameplay. International Journal of Digital Curation. 2011; Issue 2, Volume 6. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.206
• Swalwell, M. (2009). Towards the Preservation of Local Computer Game Software: Challenges, Strategies, Reflections. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 15(3), 263–279. doi:10.1177/1354856509105107

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The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion with attendees.

The webinar series is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network.

EPISODE 2: Software Collection Development

This episode reviews existing software collections and who those collections serve. In order to better capture current efforts in collecting software, we identify different collection profiles and the set of features that characterize each of them. We explore how collection development policies and strategies for existing collections impacts community goals of sharing and reuse.

Research Lead and Facilitator

• Anne-Marie Trepanier (Canadian Centre for Architecture)

Guests:

• Tim Walsh (Canadian Centre for Architecture)
• Paula Jabloner (Computer History Museum)
• Patricia Falcao (Tate)

Discussion Questions:

1. How did you get your hands on the material? Map out your acquisition process and your relationships with donors, loaners, sellers and manufacturers.

2. Why are you collecting software and what are you collecting? Pinpoint your collection’s distinctive features and its (potential) users.

3. What does collecting software entails? Describe what types of physical and digital components are found in your software collection.

4. Are all software collecting entities ensuring preservation? Define and compare procedures and standards in collecting and preserving software.

Sharing experiences and perspectives is critical to understanding the hurdles in software preservation, to imagining future use of software-dependent data, and to forming a mutual understanding of where collective action is necessary to facilitate those future uses so we hope you will join the discussion.

The webinar series is free to attend and open to all.  

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Supplementary Resources

Websites & Blogs

• Depocas, A., Ippolito, J., & Jones, C. (2003) Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach. Retrieved from http://www.variablemedia.net/e/preserving/html/var_pub_index.html
• DOCAM project, http://www.docam.ca/
• Dover, C. How the Guggenheim and NYU Are Conserving Computer-Based Art Part 1 https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/checklist/how-the-guggenheim-and-nyu-are-conserving-computer-based-art-part-1
• Fondation Daniel Langlois pour l’art, la science et la technologie. (2009) Subtitled Public: Documentary Collection. Retrieved from http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=2117
• Kossow, A. (2012). Bit by Bit: Software Collecting. CHM Blog. Retrieved from http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/bit-by-bit-software-collecting/
• Matters in Media Art. (2015). Retrieved from http://mattersinmediaart.org/

Articles, Reports & Presentations

• Au Yeung, T., Carpendale, S., & Greenberg, S. (2008) Preservation of Art in the Digital Realm. The Proceedings of iPRES2008: The Fifth International Conference on Digital Preservation. London: British Library.
• Ball, A. (2013). Preserving Computer-Aided Design (CAD). DPC Technology Watch Report 13-02. Retrieved from https://www.dpconline.org/docs/technology-watch-reports/896-dpctw13-02-pdf/file
• Bearman, D. (1987). Collecting Software: A New Challenge for Archives & Museums. Archives and Museum Informatics. (Archival Informatics Technical Report [August 1985].1987;1, no.2) Retrieved from http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/bearman_col_soft.html
• Colon-Marrero, E. (2017). Image This! A Voyage Through Software Preservation [PDF]. Retrieved from https://osf.io/rwkx5/
• DiCosmo & Zacchiroli (2017). Software Heritage: Why and How to Preserve Software Source Code. iPRES 2017: 14th International Conference on Digital Preservation, Sep 2017, Kyoto, Japan. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01590958/document  
• Engel, D. &  Wharton G. Reading between the lines: Source code documentation as a conservation strategy for software-based art https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/2047058413Y.0000000115
• Fuller, M. (2002a). Behind the blip: Software as culture. Nettime mailing list, 7. Retrieved from http://noemalab.eu/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fuller_sw_as_culture.pdf
• Lowood, H. (2016). It is What it is, Not What it Was, Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, 27. Retrieved from http://refractory.unimelb.edu.au/2016/08/30/henry-lowood/
• National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Software Preservation (2013) Retrieved from http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/documents/PreservingEXE_report_final101813.pdf
• Rechert, K., Falcao, P. and Ensom, T. Introduction to an emulation-based preservation strategy for software-based artworks: http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/emulation-based-preservation-strategy-for-software-based-artworks

• SPN Metadata Standards and Policies Working Group. (2017) SPN Metadata Standards Survey: Initial Results, Analysis and Next Steps. Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DERjYdU-90eaGImsbsWFBXMyftt0ymQF

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The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion with attendees.

The webinar series is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network.

EPISODE 1: Software Preservation Overview

This episode provides an overview of software preservation including past and current programmatic and project-based efforts to address key facets of software preservation such as metadata & standards, law & policy, technological infrastructure, research and training & education. Presenters provide additional detail about the subsequent episodes in the series, and solicit questions/topics from attendees that will inform open discussion with guests.

Sharing experiences and perspectives is critical to understanding the hurdles in software preservation, to imagining future use of software-dependent data, and to forming a mutual understanding of where collective action is necessary to facilitate those future uses so we hope you can join the discussion.

Speakers:

• Jessica Meyerson, Software Preservation Network
• Paul Wheatley, Digital Preservation Coalition
• Introduced and moderated by William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition

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Websites & Blogs

bwFLA – Emulation as a service website http://eaas.uni-freiburg.de/ 

CAMiLEON Project Website, https://web.archive.org/web/20060801000000*/http:/www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/

JISC Funded Workshops on Software Preservation: Raising awareness of preservation issues within software development https://softwarepreservation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ 

Mapstalgia Blog, Josh Millard http://mapstalgia.tumblr.com/

Variable Media Initiative, Guggenheim website https://www.guggenheim.org/conservation/the-variable-media-initiative

Software Heritage website https://www.softwareheritage.org/

Software Preservation Network Series, BLOGGERS! The Blog of SAA’s Electronic Record Section

• Overview
• Legal and Policy Aspects of Software Preservation
• Collecting, Processing, and Providing Access to Software
• Prospects in Software Preservation Partnerships
• Community Roadmapping for Moving Forward

Articles & Reports

Cochrane, E. Rendering Matters. Archives New Zealand.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130218111126/http:/archives.govt.nz/rendering-matters-report-results-research-digital-object-rendering

Newman,J.(2011). (Not) Playing Games: Player-Produced Walkthroughs as Archival Documents of Digital Gameplay. International Journal of Digital Curation. 2011; Issue 2, Volume 6. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.206

Swade,D.(1993). The Problems of Software Conservation. (Computer RESURRECTION, The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society [Autumn 1993].1993;Issue 7) http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/resurrection/res07.htm#f

Software Heritage – Why and How to Preserve Source Code https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01590958/document

SPN Curation Readiness Working Group Reports

• Report 1: Exploring Curation-ready Software Use Cases
• Report 2: Improving Curation-readiness https://osf.io/crfyv/

“The Emularity” blog post, Jason Scott, Internet Archive, Textfiles.com http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4546

2017 Report on the First IEEE Workshop on the Future of Research Curation and Research Reproducibility
https://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/ieee_workshops/ieee_reproducibility_workshop_report_final.pdf

The Software Preservation Network (SPN): A Community Effort to Ensure Long Term Access to Digital Cultural Heritage, D-Lib Magazine, May/June 2017, Volume 23, Number ⅚ http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may17/meyerson/05meyerson.html

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The webinar provides a short overview of the E-ARK project, a quick round up of key Big Data terms, followed by an exploration of the Big Data techniques and architecture (Hadoop, Solr etc.) used by the project: including faceted searches and Named Entity Recognition.

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Following up from the DPC’s Planning Day at the British Library on 3rd April, this webinar provides a roundup of the feedback received throughout the course of this productive day, with an outline of the next steps, key points from the subsequent iteration of the Strategic Plan 2018-2023 draft for review and the launch of the DPC Dragon's Den 'Big Ideas' for the coalition's next 5 years.

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Arkivum provides best-of-breed data safeguarding and long-term digital preservation solutions. Heritage and higher education organisations benefit from a simple, usable and secure digital preservation platform.

In this webinar, Arkivum's Paula Keogh provides practical advice on how to make your digital preservation procurement experience as painless as possible and discuss all that comes afterwards; how preservation can be integrated into day-to-day working practices, and will discuss: 

• How to define realistic and successful criteria when procuring a digital preservation system
• Procurement pitfalls and how you can avoid them
• How preservation techniques can add business value to your digital assets and records by integrating into everyday practice
• The interaction between archiving, preservation and how ‘business as usual’ activities can work seamlessly
• How data flows in and out of an archive and how automation through integration enables joined up workflows
• Taking examples from other sectors e.g. how the finance industry uses large-scale workflows and integration for preserving audio, video, social media and much more

Case studies will be used to illustrate the session, demonstrating how archiving, preservation and public access solutions have been implemented by a range of Arkivum customers, including Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Kramlich Collection, the Linnean Society, MoMA, Tate and the University of Westminster.

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Accelerate your Digital Preservation Plans: The 5 Step Journey

One of the main challenges to deploying the right Digital Preservation governance and systems for your organisation can be knowing the best way to get started or how to build the case and get organisational buy-in. In this webinar Preservica's Michael Hope will provide an overview of the key steps to successfully justifying, choosing and deploying a Digital Preservation system using a proven 5 Step Digital Preservation journey as a framework. This will include reference to best practice, template documents and case-studies from over 50 successful implementations.

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For organizations challenged by remotely and safely transferring born-digital material from a sender to a recipient, we invite you to join Bertram Lyons (https://www.avpreserve.com/people/bertram-lyons/) for a workshop on AVPreserve's (https://www.avpreserve.com) free EXACTLY tool.  A simple and easy to use application that utilizes the BagIt File Packaging Format standard, EXACTLY supports FTP (and SFTP) transfer, as well as standard network transfers, and integrates into desktop-based file sharing workflows such as Dropbox or Google Drive. Additionally, EXACTLY allows the recipient to create customized metadata templates for the sender to fill out before submission.

Download and find out more about Exactly at https://www.avpreserve.com/tools/exactly/

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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Abraham Lincoln

It is clear that the digital preservation community currently faces a nearly endless set of challenges, not the least of which is the availability of archival data storage technologies to meet their requirements now and in the future. Realising highly resilient, very long-term, access to digital content and services will inevitably necessitate the consumption of increasing amounts of raw data storage. However, in recent years there has been a significant, though not unexpected, rationalisation in the data storage industry, coupled with a marked decrease in the rate of growth of storage unit capacities. In this webinar Dr. Mark L Watson, Director of Hardware Development, Archive Storage Technologies, Oracle will describe currently available data storage technologies to meet the digital archivist’s needs, review the likely direction of these in the medium term and examine what – if any – possible alternative technologies might exist in the future and the technological challenges they will face.

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The E-ARK Knowledge Center (available at http://kc.dlmforum.eu) is an aggregator of services developed under the scope of the E-ARK Project (http://www.eark-project.com/) to (1) support the definition of Information Governance (IG) practices, (2) contribute to the existing body of knowledge of IG, and (3) assess existing IG practices.

In particular, the Maturity Assessment consists on a self-assessment questionnaire that allows organisations to evaluate their archival management practices. The questionnaire is based on the E-ARK maturity model for archival management practices that uses as references OAIS/ISO14721, TRAC/ISO16363, and PAIMAS/ISO20652.

This webinar will present and demonstrate the services at the E-ARK Knowledge Center with particular focus on the Maturity Model that serves as reference to one of those services.

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How do you know if your digital files are corrupt, missing, moved, or renamed? AVPreserve's (https://www.avpreserve.com) free tool called Fixity can help! Join Amy Rudersdorf (https://www.avpreserve.com/people/amy-rudersdorf/) to learn how Fixity enables you to monitor and report on file integrity and attendance in your digital collections. When run regularly, Fixity becomes a powerful tool for monitoring digital files in almost any storage location.

To download Fixity at https://www.avpreserve.com/tools/fixity/

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E-ARK was an EC-funded pilot project which aimed to improve the methods and technologies of digital archiving, in order to achieve consistency and interoperability on a Europe-wide scale. E-ARK finished in January 2017 and delivered:

• series of standardised Information Package specifications, sufficiently scalable and open to satisfy the needs of all preservation institutions;
• interoperable software tools allowing to create, preserve and reuse Information Packages which comply with the specifications;
• a series of best practices for digital preservation institutions, for example on using big data techniques in long-term repositories and digital preservation maturity assessment.

This webinar provides a comprehensive overview all the aspects of the E-ARK project and insights into follow-up work. The webinar serves also as an introduction to more detailed and technological webinars which will follow later in the programme. 

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The OECD (Organisation for Econimic Cooperation and Development) is an international government organisation that creates knowledge. Its reports and analysis focus on important social and environmental issues, and are underpinned by data colected from participating national statistics offices and other sources. With more than 5 billion data points and constant updates, the challenge was how to preserve the dynamic data, in a format facilitating use and ensuring long-term availability.

In this webinar Project Manager Terri Mitton at OECD explains how this expansive data was captured and archived for dissemination alongside other digital content of the research platform, OECD Library.

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Digital preservation is a topic that has been extensively explored over the last thirty years in the fields of archival and information studies. However, relatively little literature has touched on the topic of Trusted Digital Repositories (TDRs). A TDR is '[A]n archive, consisting of an organization of people and systems that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a Designated Community.’1 Standards governing TDRs, namely the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) and Repository Audit and Certification (RAC), have been designed and tested by developed nations with minimal reference to the developing world.

In her last webinar Anthea Seles talked to us about OAIS: its limitations and (how) can they be fixed. In this update, Anthea will talk us through the standards development process, identifying underlying socio-economic, cultural, infrastructural, educational and other presumptions that may exist in the documented standards and examines whether these biases impact on the applicability and transferability of standards to Eastern Africa.

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HSBC’s 2016 Digital Preservation Award winning Global Digital Archive system was launched in January 2015, combining a synchronised Preservica digital repository with discrete Calm archival management catalogues covering Asia, Europe and North America.

This holistic approach to collections management and digital preservation merges ingest and preservation workflows with strong search capabilities, enabling the archivists to curate physical assets, digital copies and born‐digital records on a global basis, whilst also navigating numerous information security risks posed in a commercially sensitive and highly regulated environment. In this webinar James Mortlock talks us through the successful project which demonstrates to ‘big business’ that preservation technology is a truly specialist requirement – separate to traditional document management. 

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New media art constitutes a significant vein of contemporary artistic production, with many artists creating culturally significant artworks that critically investigate the meanings and uses of technology in the contemporary moment. Yet countless such works have been lost from the cultural record, with even more rapidly becoming inaccessible.

While there exists a growing body of literature devoted to the preservation of new media artworks in institutional collections, a great many such artworks remain uncollected, and thus without the benefit of the resources and preservation know-how afforded to artworks within major collections.

In this webinar, Colin Post from the University of North Carolina, addresses this lack of research by posing the following questions: How do new media artists conceive of the preservation of their artworks? Do preservation concerns arise in the process of creation? How do preservation challenges manifest in the ongoing maintenance of an artwork?

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To achieve cross-domain collaboration and to create a network of nationwide facilities, a practical framework has been developed in The Netherlands for public organisations that ensure sustained access to digital information. Based on realistic and achievable scenarios, these organisations and their clients can now make well-founded policy choices, rearrange resources, and better designate responsibilities on a national scale. Carefully avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach, the strategy is based on differentiation between domains while achieving economies of scale and other efficiencies by sharing jointly facilities and services where possible.

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The project team at George Washington University Libraries give us an introduction to Social Feed Manager – an open source web application which empowers social media researchers, students, and cultural heritage institutions to define and collect datasets from social media services. Its development is led by the team at George Washington University Libraries, made up of software developers, archivists, and librarians. The webinar is designed for new users who are building collections and includes a short demo of the tool.

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Rhiannon’s research is in the area of digital preservation with a particular focus on film, games, and time-based media art. Her work looks at documenting context for media objects and documenting properties that are not intrinsic to an object's code but still essential to long-term understanding. She looks critically at the development of new archival practice to examine social and political implications of digital preservation tools and will talk to us about elements of her thesis and what bearing these have on upcoming revisions of OAIS.

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Rhiannon’s research is in the area of digital preservation with a particular focus on film, games, and time-based media art. Her work looks at documenting context for media objects and documenting properties that are not intrinsic to an object's code but still essential to long-term understanding. She looks critically at the development of new archival practice to examine social and political implications of digital preservation tools and will talk to us about elements of her thesis and what bearing these have on upcoming revisions of OAIS.

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Head of Curation and Preservation Services for MIT Libraries, Nancy McGovern shares her insights into Preservation Planning and Maturity Modelling.

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All organisations in all sectors create digital materials, either as part of their organisational records, by digitising non-digital collections in order to enhance access to them, or they may be created digitally (“born digital”). However, they come into being, they will need to be managed as early as possible in their life-cycle, preferably at the design stage, but if not as soon as practicable thereafter, if they are to remain accessible as long as they are required. Practical experience and expertise in this area is still relatively limited so there is a clear need for guidance to ensure that the significant opportunities are not overwhelmed by the equally significant threats.

The Digital Preservation Handbook aims to identify good practice in creating, managing and preserving digital materials and also to provide a range of practical tools to help with that process. Following on from our first introduction to this resource by Neil Beagrie, the DPC's Sharon McMeekin will point us to the many examples of good practice contained within the Handbook and will suggest ways in which institutions can begin to address digital preservation. By providing a strategic overview of the key issues, discussion and guidance on strategies and activities, and pointers to key projects and reports, the Handbook aims to provide guidance for institutions and individuals and a range of tools to help them identify and take appropriate actions.

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Digisams pilot project on storage for long-term usability is a part of the ongoing work on a scalable and flexible infrastructure that is carried out in collaboration with SUNET, Swedish University Computer Network and e-infrastructure. The project aims to develop an effective infrastructure common storage solution in order to increase usability of digital cultural heritage information.

The project is based on results from Digisams earlier work on digital preservation, including a pilot study in which a common storage, either centralized or distributed, is pointed out as desirable technical solution, together with services and tools for preservation: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/DCH-RP_WP5_DigitalPreservationAt-SwedishCHInstitutions-3.pdf (in English)

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Following up from the DPC’s Member Unconference and all of the fantastic ideas generated in this day long workshop, William and Sarah will fill you in on the popular favourites returning to our programme for 2016-2017, as well as all of the new and specialist activities planned for the coming year. Diaries at the ready…

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Preservica Product Manager, Martin Springell explores how the use of Digital Preservation software has evolved over the last two years - highlighting important trends and illustrating his talk with customer examples and demonstrations of Preservica’s very latest features.

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In this session Paul Wilson, formerly of the Office Systems Division at The National Computing Centre,  explains how he arrived at a Preservation Planning process which suited his requirements for Personal Digital Archiving after a 35 year journey.

In an accompanying Case Note, Paul narrates his attempts to create a preservation plan for a small personal collection. In the fuller article (which can be downloaded as a PDF), he outlines his experiences to provide insights into the practical outcomes of using published guidelines and tools for preservation planning. Since he could find no preservation planning process appropriate to individuals, Paul obtained a slide set detailing a simple preservation workflow from the Digital Preservation Coalition, and used that as a foundation on which to establish an approach to the work.

This general approach and accompanying documentation was tested and refined on two of his personal digital collections (one of 800 mementos and the other of 17,000 photos).

“I recounted my PDF experiences not to alert others to specifics about PDF (about which I know very little) or the eCopy software (which I am generally very pleased with),” he explains, “but to illustrate how complicated and time-consuming work on file formats can be.”

The detailed account of his research and preliminary trials provides a set of guidance for any individual or institution looking to preserve their own small, digital collection. Paul has also provided the documents he created from scoping to maintaining his collection, along with blank template versions that can be easily used and adapted by others. All of the documents, as well as blank templates, are available to download as a Toolset.

This case note also appears in the DPC’s Technology Watch Report Personal Digital Archiving by Gabriela Redwine.

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‘Digital preservation is an always-emerging challenge. As technology changes so the processes and tools of effective preservation need to adapt. Success is provisional: a commitment to constant improvement is a prerequisite. Never entirely certain what success looks like, the digital preservation community has over the years developed several proxies for success and maturity of service. The ideal of a Trusted Digital Repository has gained much traction in the literature since it was first posited in 1996, and it is now encapsulated and codified as a series of standards. The resulting requirements and checklists provide a framework for repository improvement; however, with too many demands, too little practical experience and too little transparency these standard can also be a barrier to participation. If best practice is a receding and unattainable horizon, then it can become the enemy of good practice. Practitioners and their managers simply want to know how they are doing and how they can do it better.

This joint webinar between DPC and NCDD reviews state of the art in the certification and accreditation of digital preservation. The relationships between various key standards will be delineated with a deep dive into practical implementation of the ‘Data Seal of Approval’. The utility of audit methodologies will be reviewed; the role of maturity models presented; an emerging approaches in the UK and the Netherlands will be discussed.

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In this webinar Gaby Wijers, director of the international platform LIMA that focuses on the preservation, distribution and research of media art (www.li-ma.nl), talks about how the current situation in the Netherlands is concerning the sustainability of born digital art.

Gaby shares examples from the research rapport on born digital art of the Dutch Cultural Coalition Digital Preservation (only available in Dutch) and the Transformation Digital Art project from the Dutch Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (SMBK).

NCDD (the Dutch National Digital Coalition for Digital Preservation) and DPC (the British Digital Preservation Coalition) have teamed up to organize a series of monthly webinars in 2016, with alternate speakers from the British and Dutch preservation field. All webinars are recorded and made available online. Keep an eye on the agenda for upcoming webinars and other joint events.

Links to the videos Gaby tried to show during the webinar session are as follows:

• I/Eye Bill Spinhoven, 1993: http://www.li-ma.nl/site/catalogue/art/bill-spinhoven/i-eye/11700
• Se Mi Sei Vicino (If you are close to me) Sonia Cillari, 2006: http://www.li-ma.nl/site/catalogue/art/sonia-cillari/se-mi-sei-vicino-if-you-are-close-to-me/9774
• Digital Art Who Cares LIMA and SBMK, 2016: http://www.arttube.nl/en/video/Digital_Art_who_cares

More info on projects and documentation can be found on the LI-MA website: www.li-ma.nl/site/article/transformatie-digitale-kunst-peter-struycken

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The promise of an economy based on new forms of data and novel types of exploitation has generated lots of excitement in the last few years. The excitement about so-called ‘big data’ is not just from the technology side: economic commentators point to technology as the single most important success story of the last three decades. Digital technologies have continued to grow more powerful and more prevalent, even as economic models and financial paradigms have stumbled. This invitational webinar will examine the claims made for the role of technology in the economy and their foundations. It will underline in stark terms the need for digital preservation, calling into question the credibility and viability of those agencies not making not making rapid progress in establishing digital preservation best practices.

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In his presentation, Chido shows the results of the NCDD project ‘Born digital collection’ that focuses on how institutions decide upon acquiring born digital collections. The project report describes the current situation in the Netherlands and also provides scenarios that can guide institutions in their future choices regarding the acquisition of born digital collections. With the aid of two case studies, Chido also explores the consequences of the timing of preservation efforts: should we be acting right up front at the creation of born digital material, or can it wait? Lastly, participants will be invited to give their feedback on the ‘decision tree’ that is being developed to support the decision whether or not to acquire a born digital collection.

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PERICLES is a 4-year EU-funded RTD project (Feb 2013 – Jan 2017). This webinar will briefly outline the key concepts that are guiding the PERICLES research and development and introduce you to notions of “digital ecosystem”, “model-driven approach”, “scenario-based testbeds” and “sheer curation”. The overarching aim of PERICLES is to propose a novel approach on how to manage change in digital environments, taking it beyond the challenges of technological obsolescence, with the aim of ensuring long-term availability of digital information. The project outcome will be a testbed demonstration of the overall approach, which by its very nature does not aspire to constitute a system in itself, but describes means and deploys tools that support change management in digital environments. Most of the tools and their integration into a testbed are still work in progress. Two tools that the project developed first, the PET and the PeriCAT, were needed early on for substantiating and informing other more complex components of the project. However, they are also effective as stand-alone tools, applicable both for preservation and other purposes.

The PET tool is a framework for extracting useful information from the environment where digital objects are created and modified. The extracted information supports object use and reuse.The PeriCAT tool is a framework of Information Encapsulation techniques, which can be used to aggregate information, such as those extracted by PET. It supports the user in the selection of the best encapsulation approach based on the scenario under consideration. By the end of the session, participants will have: 

• a clear impression of the PERICLES project research
• a basic understanding of the use of the tools and their use cases
• knowledge about the relevant documentation

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In the Jisc funded "Filling the Digital Preservation Gap" project, teams at the Universities of Hull and York are looking at how to incorporate digital preservation into their workflows for research data management. The project is looking specifically at Archivematica, an open source digital preservation solution. Whilst the project focuses on a particular use case (research data management) the project team also have other use cases in mind for Archivematica and many of the lessons learnt so far have been more broadly applicable. This webinar will summarise project results so far and discuss some of the ways we are enhancing and developing Archivematica to make it more suitable for our proposed use cases.

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The slides from the members' veraPDF webinar held on Tuesday 3rd February are now available for members.

Slides 24 and 25 have been updated as there was an error on the webinar version of the slides, but this is highlighted and explained during the recording.

We welcome feedback and comments on the functional and technical specification (circulated in advance of the webinar on 29 January). 

Please submit your feedback by Friday 13th February 2015 to ensure the prject consortium can address your comments in the final versions to send to PREFORMA at the end of Phase 1. We ask that you do not circulate the documents and recording beyond your organisation.

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