Digital Preservation Training Programme:
Warwick, 10-14th October 2005
The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) offers practical training and support to all staff involved in managing digital information within their institutions. The pilot training programme will be geared towards Higher Education and Further Education institutions but the content will also be broadly applicable. Managing digital material requires a range of skills from different individuals working within an institution, from managers to operational staff, and includes legal, policy and economic considerations as well as technical strategies. The DPTP is being led by the University of London Computer Centre, in association with the Digital Preservation Coalition, AHDS, King's College Digital Consultancy Service and in partnership with Cornell University. The modular structure of the course will encourage individuals to apply their new found skills on return to their host institution.
A pilot residential DPTP takes place in the University of Warwick, October 10th-14th, 2005. Places on the pilot will be heavily subsidised through generous funding by JISC. Places are therefore limited. If you are interested in attending, then we recommend that you register your interest as soon as possible. DPTP plans to offer the programme again, but without subsidy.
To register your interest in attending the DPTP visit the programme website at http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/dptp/
Guides to Good Practice
The Guides to Good Practice provide detailed and authoritative advice for researchers planning projects that depend on digital data. Guides are thematic and focus on archaeological examples:
•Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data
•Digital Archives from Excavation and Fieldwork
•GIS Guide to Good Practice
•Geophysical Data in Archaeology
•CAD: a Guide to Good Practice
•Creating and Using Virtual Reality
... with guides from our sister services on: Digitising History, Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts, Creating Digital Performance Resources, Digital Audio
Resources, Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts and GIS
for Historians. All guides are available from Oxbow
Books (www.oxbowbooks.com)and are available for free online at:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/
Information Papers
The AHDS has also recently published a series of shorter Information Papers. These focus on the key themes associated with digitisation and derive from the very successful AHDS Digitisation Workshops. Topics include:
•Project Planning and Management
•The Digitisation Process
•Metadata for your Digital Resource
•Copyright and Rights Issues in Digitisation
•Users and using digital resources
•Writing a technical appendix for the AHRC
•Choosing an XML editor
•Risk Management and contingency planning
•Developing a website
•Creating Digital Resources: an introduction
These are online with a number of case studies at:
http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/information-papers/
