Events

Here is a list of events related to the digital preservation community. See also

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JISC Digital Festival 2014

The festival will be innovative, informative and fun, showcasing and celebrating the very best in UK digital talent by bringing together experts and providers from the higher education, further education and skills sectors to share ideas and best practice.

This is an opportunity for you to discuss real solutions to improve teaching and learning and enhance the student and research experience. 

There will be practical ideas and tips to take away and use straight away in your institution as well as thought provoking ideas on technologies of the future.

Date: 
11 March 2014 to 12 March 2014
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SCAPE Webinar: ToMaR – The Tool-to-MapReduce Wrapper: How to Let Your Preservation Tools Scale

Overview

When dealing with large volumes of files, e.g. in the context of file format migration or characterisation tasks, a standalone server often cannot provide sufficient throughput to process the data in a feasible period of time. ToMaR provides a simple and flexible solution to run preservation tools on a Hadoop MapReduce cluster in a scalable fashion.
ToMaR offers the possibility to use existing command-line tools and Java applications in Hadoop’s distributed environment very similarly to a Desktop computer. By utilizing SCAPE tool specification documents, ToMaR allows users to specify complex command-line patterns as simple keywords, which can be executed on a computer cluster or a single machine. ToMaR is a generic MapReduce application which does not require any programming skills.

This webinar will introduce you to the core concepts of Hadoop and ToMaR and show you by example how to apply it to the scenario of file format migration.

Learning outcomes

1. Understand the basic principals of Hadoop
2. Understand the core concepts of ToMaR
3. Apply knowledge of Hadoop and ToMaR to the file format migration scenario

Who should attend?

Practitioners and developers who are:

• dealing with command line tools (preferrably of the digital preservation domain) in their daily work
• interested in Hadoop and how it can be used for binary content and 3rd-party tools

Session Lead: Matthias Rella, Austrian Institute of Technology

Time: 10:00 GMT / 11:00 CET

Duration: 1 hour

Date: 
21 March 2014
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Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014

The Research Data Access and Preservation Summit 2014 will feature three days of programming with an emphasis on practical approaches to research data management, access, and preservation, including success stories (and lessons learned), innovative research, and resources and tools developed by and for the community. The program will include invited panels and presentations, an interactive poster session, lightning talks, and a hands-on workshop. 

Date: 
26 March 2014 to 28 March 2014
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SCAPE Training - Preserving Your Preservation Tools

Overview

Learning to Think Like a Package Maintainer

Lots of great digital preservation applications and services exist, however very few are actively maintained and thus preserved! This is a big problem! By introducing the steps to develop these and engage the support of the community, this training course looks at what can be done to improve this situation. Specifically, this training course looks at how to prepare packages for submission into the very heart of many digital environments; the operating system and directly associated “app-stores”. Attendees will be given hands-on experience with developing and maintaining packages rather than software and key differences will be discussed and evaluated. Better preservation of preservation tools, means better preservation our digital history.

Learning Outcomes (by the end of the training event the attendees will be able to):

  1. Understand the complexities of package management and distinguish between the different practices relating to both package objectives and chosen programming language. 
  2. Be able to carry out advanced package management operations in order to critically appraise current packages and propose changes. 
  3. Understand the importance of clearly defined versioning and licenses and the role of clear documentation and examples. 
  4. Apply best practice techniques in order to create a simple package suitable for long term maintenance. 
  5. Evaluate a number of options for managing package configuration and behavior relating to package installation, removal, upgrade and re-installation. 
  6. Analyse opportunities for automating package management and releases, maintaining a clear focus on the user and not the developer. 
  7. Critically evaluate opportunities to generalise package management to allow the easy building and maintenance of packages on multiple platforms.
  8. Assess the potential to apply package management techniques in your own environment. 

Delegates will receive a certificate of attendance for the training course.

The agenda can be seen here: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Agenda+-+Preserving+Your+Preservation+Tools.

Registration is now open! https://scape-preserving-tools.eventbrite.co.uk

Date: 
26 March 2014 to 27 March 2014
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Museums and the Web 2014

Museums and the Web is an annual conference featuring advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natural and scientific heritage. Formed by leading professionals from around the world, our community has been meeting since 1997. The products of our meetings and conversations – the MW proceedingsBest of the Web archives and discussion Forum – are an unparalleled resource for museum workers, technologists, students and researchers that grows every year.

Please check the news page for important information about MW2014.

Who Comes to MW?

All kinds of people from around the world come to Museums and the Web. You will find webmasters, educators, curators, librarians, designers, managers, directors, scholars, consultants, programmers, analysts, publishers and developers from museums, galleries, libraries, science centers, and archives – as well as the companies, foundations and governments that support them – at Museums and the Web every year.

Date: 
2 April 2014 to 5 April 2014
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Managing Digital Preservation: A SCAPE & OPF Seminar

This event will focus on the issues that managers face when implementing digital preservation in their organisation. It will explore the tension between stable business processes and the introduction of new technologies. Many managers have a responsibility for digital preservation but they are not necessarily a technical expert in the field.

Why attend?

  • Meet peers who are managing digital preservation
  • Learn about the approach of others who are embedding digital preservation in business practices
  • Hear about strategic approaches and policies in the field of digital preservation
  • Meet experts in digital preservation
  • Find out about research and development project developments

Who should attend?

Managers with a responsibility for digital preservation in large or small organisations

Date: 
2 April 2014
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Personal Digital Archiving 2014

PDA 2014 explores the intersection between individuals, public institutions, and private companies engaged in the creation, preservation, and ongoing use of the digital records of our daily lives. The conference reflects upon the current status of personal archiving, its achievements, challenges, issues, and needs as evidenced through research, education, case studies, practitioner experiences, best practices, the development of tools and services, storage options, curation, and economic sustainability. There is also interest in the role of libraries, archives and other cultural heritage organizations in supporting personal digital archiving through outreach or in conjunction with developing community history collections.

Date: 
10 April 2014 to 11 April 2014
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IS&T Archiving Conference 2014

The first IS&T Archiving Conference was held in 2004. Since the first meeting, archiving has continued to offer a unique opportunity for imaging scientists and those working in the cultural heritage community (curators, archivists, librarians, etc.), as well as in government, industry, and academia, to come together to discuss the most pressing issues related to the digital preservation and stewardship of hardcopy, audio, and video.

Date: 
13 May 2014 to 16 May 2014

3rd LIBER Workshop on Digital Curation (and SCAPE/APARSEN satellite event)

"Which representation of the records will be the target of preservation?"

The management of digital objects (e.g. articles, datasets, images, streams of data, multimedia objects) and non-digital objects (namely real-world entities, like authors, institutions, teams, geographic locations, etc.) is a crucial issue for the whole scientific and administrative process within an academic institution.

The need to unambiguously locate and access the digital resources, as well as associate them with the related metadata (e.g. authors, relevant entities, institutions, research groups, projects, administrative organisational units) is an essential requirement for managing, accessing, reusing, retrieving and preserving huge amounts of cultural and intellectual resources.

Along with the tide of Big Data, the relevance of this issue has been dramatically increased, making it clear that academic institutions have to take actions and develop plans that foster achievement of these goals. In this Conference, we argue that the introduction of comprehensive Data Management Plans is the imminent step for the Instiutions and their repositories which seek to fulfil requirements set to them.

Data Management Plans facilitate the curation process of digital objects. Thus, the time and effort spent by the curators is minimized.  

http://liber2014.univie.ac.at/satellite-event/programme-satellite-event/

19-20 May Main workshop

21 May (AM) Digital Preservation measures to ensure long-term accessibility of digital resources (SCAPE & APARSEN Projects)

21 (PM) -22 May Final SCAPE Training Event (more information coming soon)

Date: 
19 May 2014 to 22 May 2014
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Open Repositories 2014

The 9th International Conference on Open Repositories will be held from 9 to 13 June, 2014 in Helsinki,  Finland.

The main theme of the conference is “Towards Repository Ecosystems”. The Call for Proposals is available, and you can also submit your proposals. The deadline for proposals is Monday, February 3, 2014.

Date: 
9 June 2014 to 13 June 2014
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