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DPE, Planets and CASPAR Third Annual Conference: Costs, Benefits and Motivations for Digital Preservation

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Programme

Tuesday, 28th October 2008
20.00
Evening reception with poster session including FP7

Wednesday, 29th October 2008
Day One will be oriented more towards a senior decision maker audience
08:30 - 09:00
Registration and Coffee
Session 1: The Case for Digital Curation and Preservation.
09:00 - 10:00
Introduction from European Commission - Digital Preservation: A Perspective on European Action and Research - Manuela Speiser (25 mins) Download Presentation [PDF, 210KB]

Overview focusing on the overarching risks, benefits, and motivations for digital preservation in a business context - Seamus Ross (25 mins) Download Presentation [PDF, 93KB]
Session 2: Who are we keeping data for and what do they need? Requirements for curation and preservation.
10:00-11:30
Provide an overview of the needs of specific communities of practice in the use of preserved data, exploring confidence in authenticity and integrity and legal clearance.

(20 minutes each)
  • NDA - Ian Upshall - Long Term Access to Digital Records - The Challenge Facing Managers of Radioactive Waste Download Presentation [PDF, 764KB]
  • UNESCO - Mario Hernandez - UNESCO, challenges in preserving cultural heritage data in relation with World Heritage sites Download Presentation [PDF, 1.7MB]
  • European Space Agency (ESA) - Luigi Fusco - The EO community vision for Long Term Data Preservation: Needs and technological, infrastructure, operational and political plan Download Presentation [PDF, 1.4MB]
  • Alliance for Permanent Access - Salvatore Mele - Preservation, re-use and (open) access to high-energy physics data (or lack thereof) Download Presentation [PDF, 3.0MB]
11:30 - 12:00
Coffee break
Session 3: What do we need to keep and how can we ensure it is kept?
12:00 - 13:30
Identifying holdings (benefits and risks), overview of the range of policies needed to support digital preservation. Introduce concepts of selection and appraisal and advice on who should be involved.

(25 minutes each)
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch
Session 4: Developing preservation infrastructures
14:30 - 15:30
Overview of need for senior level support over time, range of departments that need to be involved, workflows.

(30 minutes each)
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Session 5: Sustainability and Interoperability - Panel Discussion
16:00 - 17:00
To include technical and non-technical aspects of sustainability and interoperability.

Panel Discussion - David Giaretta, Seamus Ross, Clive Billenness
17:00
Summing up and close for day one
19:00 - 21:00
Group Dinner

Thursday, 30th October 2008
Day Two will be oriented more towards a practitioner audience
Session 6: Overview of tools and resources facilitating digital curation and preservation at an organisational level
9:00 - 11:00
Presentations (20 mins each): Demos (30 mins each):
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
Session 7: Overview of landscape with regards to shared/distributed infrastructures
11:30 - 13:00
(20 mins each):
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Session 8: Putting Evidence at the Heart of Curation and Preservation
14:00 - 16:00
Test bed demonstrations (25 mins each) Followed by Panel Discussion facilitated by Shaman: Matthias Hemmje
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30
Question and Answer Session
Summing up and Close - Seamus Ross