Just Keep the Bits Workshop - Melbourne

Just keep the bits! A digital preservation workshop about risk management and digital preservation

Digital preservation is a complex challenge with many different facets and so many things that can go wrong! How do you design an approach to digital preservation that will meet these challenges? Or if you've already embarked on your digital preservation journey, how do you validate and fine tune what you're already doing? In short, how do you: “just keep the bits"?

This workshop will dig into the various threats our digital content faces, from technical breakdown to cyber attack. It will introduce a simple risk assessment based approach to document, analyse and offer routes to mitigate these risks, breaking the challenge down into manageable and understandable components. The workshop will take a collaborative approach and will combine an initial presentation with plenary and group based discussions and exercises.

The workshop will give participants the chance to discuss and learn about the most challenging questions in digital preservation, such as: how much digital preservation is enough or what’s an acceptable level of risk? There are no right or wrong answers, but this workshop will help the participants begin to find appropriate answers for their own organizational contexts and to learn in a friendly and collaborative environment.

Location

This is a face-to-face event in Melbourne, please see below for links to the event pages in the relevant cities:

• Canberra

• Sydney

• Brisbane

Agenda

• Storing bits and mitigating hits - presentation by Paul Wheatley, Head of Research and Practice at the Digital Preservation Coalition (40mins)

• Risk and mitigation - plenary exercise (20mins)

• Break (10mins)

• Risk assess a digital archive - small groups activity (40mins)

• Reporting back and discussion (30mins)

• Wrap up, feedback and final thoughts (10mins)

Registration

Places are strictly limited and should be booked in advance. Early booking is recommended as we expect this event will be popular. Due to the limited number of places, DPC members can register two attendees for an event. If you wish to register more, please contact Ellie O'Leary (eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org). If there are places available after registration opens to all, this limit will be changed.

Registration is free. DPC Members have priority registration until the 25th of August, after which registration will open to non-DPC Members. DPC Members, please log in to the website and view this page for the booking link.

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If you have any questions about registration please contact Ellie O'Leary (eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org)

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 to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.