Tag Archives: digital preservation

DPTP at the NAS – legal admissibility

We recently gave a two-day version of the Digital Preservation Training Programme to the National Archives of Scotland. Our timing was quite interesting; we arrived on the Monday the week after NAS had merged with the General Register Office, to become a new body called the National Records of Scotland. And just days before, the [...]

Getting Started in Digital Preservation

Last week Patricia and I attended this event organised by the DPC at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre on Digital Preservation. There was a good mixture of attendees which showed us digital preservation is a priority. William Kilbride from the DPC asked the audience what were their main concerns and some of the answers were: [...]

DPTP students talk about the October course

As you’ll know from our previous posts, ULCC welcomed 22 international students onto its October session of the Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) in London to learn about the essentials of policies, planning, strategies, standards and procedures in digital preservation. Attendees came from across the UK, as well as Germany, Portugal and the Republic of [...]

Being Frank: William Kilbride talks DPC and DPTP

After the DPC’s sponsorship of two places for our most recent DPTP course in May, I was keen to talk to William Kilbride, Executive Director at DPC, about his work at the coalition and his thoughts on the future of the training programme. Frank Steiner: I understand you’ve just recently taken on the post at [...]

¡La varita mágica!

Translation: the digital preservation silver bullet which people keep looking for. Well, as many of us know it doesn’t exist! This was part of my opening speech for the XV Jornadas de la Conferencia de Archiveros de las Universidades Españolas. This is the annual meeting of all Spanish university archivists. I spoke about “El perfil [...]