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Digital Preservation Advanced Practitioner Training
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15 – 19 July 2013
Gilbert Scott Conference Suite, University of Glasgow
Co-sponsored event (all welcome, registration essential)
A training event organised by APARSEN, presented in collaboration with TIMBUS, SCAPE, EUDAT and the IMPACT Centre, and sponsore
d by the European Commission.
This week-long event, hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition at the University of Glasgow will bring together representatives from projects and organisations at the leading edge of digital preservation research, providing attendees with training at an advanced level. The training will aim to cover issues across the complete digital preservation life-cycle by addressing topics within four main themes: Governance and Management, Digital Object/Data Creation, Preservation Planning, and Infrastructure.
The course is a distinctive addition to digital preservation training activities in Europe and is the first iteration of what is to become a yearly training event, bringing together those at the forefront of digital preservation research and training. It is intended for managers and staff already working in digital preservation. It assumes a working knowledge of existing standards like the Open Archival Information System - OAIS - as well as an understanding of how issues of preservation apply to their own institution. An optional half-day digital preservation ‘boot-camp’ will be held prior to the commencement of the main course for those wishing a refresher on key concepts.
This training event is co-funded by the European Community’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development FP7/2007-2013 – ICT-2009.4.1: Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation (grant agreement No 269977), the APARSEN Project.
From Preserving Data to Preserving Research: Curation of Process and Context
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The TIMBUS and Wf4Ever projects are offering a half-day tutorial at the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2013,University of Malta, in Valletta, Malta on September 22, 2013.
Grand Hotel Excelsior (Great Siege Road, Floriana, FRN1810, Malta)
http://tpdl2013.upatras.gr/tut-pdpr.php
ABSTRACT
In the domain of eScience, investigations are increasingly collaborative. Most scientific and engineering domains benefit from building on the outputs of other research: by sharing information to reason over and data to incorporate in the modeling task at hand. This raises the need for preserving and sharing entire eScience workflows and processes for later reuse. We need to define which information is to be collected, create means to preserve it and approaches to enable and validate the re-execution of a preserved process. This includes and goes beyond preserving the data used in the experiments, as the process underlying its creation and use is essential.
The TIMBUS project and Wf4Ever project team up for this half-day tutorial to provide an introduction to the problem domain and discuss solutions for the curation of eScience processes.
From Preserving Data to Preserving Research: Curation of Process and Context
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The TIMBUS and Wf4Ever projects are offering a half-day tutorial at the 10th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres) 2013, in Lisbon, Portugal on September 2, 2013.
http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/index.html at IST - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
ABSTRACT
In the domain of eScience, investigations are increasingly collaborative. Most scientific and engineering domains benefit from building on the outputs of other research: by sharing information to reason over and data to incorporate in the modeling task at hand. This raises the need for preserving and sharing entire eScience workflows and processes for later reuse. We need to define which information is to be collected, create means to preserve it and approaches to enable and validate the re-execution of a preserved process. This includes and goes beyond preserving the data used in the experiments, as the process underlying its creation and use is essential.
The TIMBUS project and Wf4Ever project team up for this half-day tutorial to provide an introduction to the problem domain and discuss solutions for the curation of eScience processes.
APA EURO PROJECTS FAIR
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The TIMBUS Project is organising and facilitating an
APA EURO PROJECTS FAIR
Chaired by Dr William Kilbride, Director DPC
6 November 2012, 16:30 - 18:30
European Space Agency, ESRIN, Frascati, outside Rome
In Association with the 2012 APA Conference, 6-7 November 2012
EU project members will introduce their Digital Preservation projects followed by panel and audience discussions. Amongst the project presented will be the ODE, SCIDIP-ES, EUDAT, APA/APARSEN, ENSURE, SCAPE and TIMBUS projects.
For the programme please see
APARSEN Webinar: Long Term Preservation and Digital Rights Management
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10 March 2014, 14:00 Central European Time (13:00 UK time via web-meeting and is scheduled to last 2 hours).
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php/about-aparsen/aparsen-webinars/
Digital Preservation is all about long term accessibility, re-usability and understandability of digital objects. Environments and objects with digital rights management, pose extra challenges for Digital Preservation. The APARSEN project has researched in-depth the risks, challenges and approaches for preservation of DRM-systems and explored approaches and measures to ensure longterm accessibility of objects.
As part of the project, risk assessments and surveys were held and use cases made. Come and listen to the results of this research in our webinar.
The speaker’s programme is:
- Simon Lambert, APARSEN Coordinator: “General introduction to APARSEN and how DRM fits in”
- Stefan Hein, German National Library DNB: “Introduction to Digital Rights and their representation; Introduction to DRM concepts, classification and risk analysis”
- Sabine Schrimpf, German National Library DNB: “Use case: DNB”
- Kirnn Kaur, The British Library BL: “Highlights from the survey and recommendations”
- David Giaretta, APARSEN project Manager: “Conclusions for APARSEN”
Moderator: Eefke Smit (STM)
The meeting is a web-meeting and takes place on megameeting: http://alliancepermanentaccess.megameeting.com/guest/#&id=36245
More information on APARSEN can be found here: http://aparsen.eu/
