Policies for Practical Digital Preservation


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introduction:

Digital preservation asks, how can my organisation use the computerised documents or spreadsheets (or other files) which it creates today in two, three, five, ten years, or longer? This is an essential and urgent problem for any regulated industry in which some records must be accessible for 20 to 100 years or more.

This course is an intermediate course on how to achieve effective digital preservation. It covers the main practical solutions, and shows how to create policies and behaviours which will apply these in real-world organisations.

outcomes:

  • Learn to design & manage a preservation solution for your organisation
  • Understand the framework and long-term management commitments for a digital preservation solution in more detail
  • Know how to draft policies and procedures to increase the chances of successful digital preservation
  • Have considered the costs and benefits of the main preservation methods.
  • Learn what your next steps should be

programme:

  • The solutions to digtial preservation: management & testing requirements
  • Policies for digital preservation
  • Procedures for doing and testing digital preservation
  • The organizational framework to support long-term preservation: making it easier to preserve than to fail
  • Preservation workshop 1: migration, standard formats and emulation
  • Policy workshop 2: Responsibility and control
  • Policy workshop 3: Budgets, audits, and testing

speaker:

David Bowen , Trainer, Consultant

teaching style:

This course is taught in short presentations, with discussion to bring out the experiences of attendees. It includes practical examples, which will be demonstrated to attendees, and it also has a workshop element in which attendees will draft and discuss some policies, and will experience actual preservation events. The course is supplemented by hand-outs and references to web sites and publications.

who should attend?

This course is specifically for Company Secretaries, senior Lawyers, senior Compliance Managers, or senior Quality staff who are responsible for ensuring that documents are available far into the future. It will also be useful for Information leaders (Librarians, Records Managers, Information Officers, Knowledge Officers) and ICT leaders.

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