The DPC invites you to join us for an online workshop to explore a new online decision support tool for digital preservation.
The National Archives UK, with statisticians from the University of Warwick and partners from five other UK archives, has developed a decision support tool to map and quantify the risks and uncertainty involved in digital preservation. The Digital Archiving Graphical Risk Assessment Model (DiAGRAM) is a new risk management framework that captures the conditional dependencies of the risks to the long term survival of complex digital objects and presents these in a visual and intuitive way. The model enables a quantitative comparison of the very different types of threats to preservation outcomes, from software obsolescence to natural disasters.
DiAGRAM will:
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Improve users' understanding of the complex digital archiving risk landscape and of the interplay between digital preservation risk factors.
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Enable archivists to compare and prioritise very different types of threats to the digital archive.
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Aid in quantifying the impact of risk events and risk management strategies on archival outcomes for use in decision making, communication with stakeholders and developing business cases for targeted action.
Programme (please log-in to watch recording)
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14:50 Informal Networking
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15:00 Welcome (DPC)
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15.30 Overview of statistical methodology used (University of Warwick)
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15:50 Populating the model - elicitation and experts (The National Archives/University of Warwick)
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16:05 Break
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16:25 Introduction to the DiAGRAM tool and demo (The National Archives/University of Warwick)
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18.15 Q&A and feedback - attendees will be encouraged to ask questions and share their thoughts on the tool (DPC).
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18.45 Final Questions & Next Steps (DPC)
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19.00 Close