Tag Archives: DPC

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: [...]

Next Digital Preservation Training!

Greetings. It has been a while. I thought I would give you a bit of an update about what we have been up to at DPTP. Our next DPTP takes place 29th, 30th and 31st of March 2010. We are really looking forward to it and have been updating various aspects of the course. The [...]

File formats…or data streams?

On 1st December Malcolm Todd of The National Archives gave a good account of the work he’s been doing on File Formats for Preservation, resulting in a substantial new Technology Watch report for the DPC. It was a seminar hosted by William Kilbride, with participants from the BBC, the BL, NLW and others. The afternoon [...]

DPC AGM – and thoughts on preserving research data

Last Monday (2009-11-23) saw DPC members travel to Edinburgh for a board meeting and for the annual general meeting of the company. We elected a new chair – Richard Ovenden – and offered our thanks to Bruno Longmore for the effective leadership he has offered as acting chair following the departure of Ronald Milne for [...]

DPTP October 2009 at the Hat and Tun

On day 3 of DPTP here in Hatton gardens. Again we see a wide variety of participants and backgrounds from UK and beyond. We have a full house of 22. Many thanks again to the DPC for their tremendous support with their scholarships. Here is a shot of William Kilbride talking about the DPC.