Tag Archives: DCC

Latest Digital Preservation Training Programme, SOAS May 2009.

So another DPTP over! As presenters we felt it went really well. We again had a great group of people. The level of knowledge was very high and even so it seems the course really does help consolidate many levels of knowledge about digital preservation. For many it was OAIS and the class project seems [...]

4th International Digital Curation Conference part 3 (idcc4 rides again)

This is the third and final post of mine summing up my notes from the 4th international digital curation conference (now a few weeks ago.) These notes cover the bulk of the second day, which consisted of submitted (as opposed to invited) papers. Most of these were given in parallel tracks, so I’m only able [...]

4th International Digital Curation Conference part 2 (return of idcc4)

My last post from IDCC4 ended with me being unable to report on John Wilbank’s closing keynote on day 1, so I’ll rectify that now with the benefit of handwritten notes and a little more time for reflection. John is working on the Science Commons initiative which, through projects and advocacy, is taking the Creative [...]

The 4th International Digital Curation Conference: idcc4

This is a brief and undigested report from day 1 of the DCC’s international digital curation conference taking place in Edinburgh. After a welcome from Chris Rusbridge (DCC director) and Professor Peter Clarke (NeSC director) we had a keynote from Professor David Porteous, a professor of human molecular genetics and medicine and a key player [...]

DCC 101 at the NeSC

I’m writing this whilst listening to Michael Day of UKOLN talk about preservation as one component of the data curation lifecycle espoused by the DCC. He is one of a number of people invited by the DCC to give lectures and create exercises as part of the pilot of DCC 101, a course aimed at [...]