Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term strategies for Long-term problems

Five-Day Workshops

Workshop Goal

Promote Practical and Responsible Stewardship of Digital Assets

ICPSR, the world's largest archive of social science data and part of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, is pleased to continue the digital preservation training program developed at Cornell University. The workshop series is intended for managers who are or will be responsible for digital preservation programs in libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions. The goals of the workshop are to foster critical thinking in a technological realm and provide the means for exercising practical and responsible stewardship of digital assets in an age of technological uncertainty.

Workshop Dates

Next Workshop	Registration Begins	Tuition Due
October 11-16, 2009	August 1, 2009, 9am ET	September 14, 2009

Future scheduled 5-day workshop: June 13-18, 2010 at MIT in Cambridge, MA.

Content

Workshop attendees participate in an interactive process to develop digital preservation plans that incorporate technical, financial, organizational, and policy aspects encompassing the full life cycle of digital objects. The resulting organization-specific digital preservation plans stresses short-term risk reduction strategies while research and development goes forward in creating longer-term solutions that can be incorporated into the program framework. The workshop includes presentations, group discussions, labs, individual assignments, and a keynote presentation by an international expert in digital presentation.

Online Tutorial

The online tutorial was made available to workshop participants in June 2003, and was released to the public the following fall. The workshop organizers revise and update the tutorial on an ongoing basis, and it has proven to be a useful prerequisite for workshop attendees. The tutorial is also available in French and Italian.

Online Tutorial

Digital Preservation Workshop

Section 1: Setting the Stage
Digital technology and preservation timeline

Section 2: Terms and Concepts
Digital preservation terminology

Section 3: Obsolescence
Obsolete and endangered media

Section 4: Foundations

Section 5: Challenges

Section 6: Program Elements
Components of a digital preservation program

Day 1: Organizational Context

Day 2: Working with OAIS and Workflows/Tools

Day 3: Preservation metadata, Recent Technology Tools, and Keynote

Day 4: Requisite Resources and Digital Preservation in Practice

Day 5: Where do you go from here?

Additional Information

Please use the following links to learn more regarding the workshops and how to attend:

The workshop organizers welcome your questions and comments at digital-preservation@icpsr.umich.edu