Tag Archives: DPTP

Fáilte gu Ghlaschu!

  The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris Football and digital preservation seem an unlikely combination but on May 15th Ed and I arrived to a slightly damp Glasgow celebrating en masse the end of the football season, to deliver our DPTP north of the border.  There, I [...]

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 [...]

National Archives launch a new Digital Preservation FAQ

The National Archives has launched a new Digital Preservation FAQ. The first seven questions are those most frequently posed by archive services to the National Archives. The FAQ is aimed particularly at smaller archives in the publicly funded sector. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/projects-and-work/digital-preservation-faqs.htm ‘It’s designed to demystify issues and give a lead in to more detailed information provided [...]

A Workshop for the Web

We delivered our first DPTP workshop in London on 28 June 2010, on the subject of archiving websites. I delivered most of the training myself, working from my experience with archiving JISC project websites, writing the PoWR Handbook, and my sense for how the work should fit into a traditional archiving continuum. Accordingly I tried [...]

Iraqi visit to ULCC

Our last Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) was attended by many people from the UK and abroad.  Thanks to the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and the British Council in Iraq among the attendees were two colleagues from the Iraq National Library and Archives in Baghdad (INLA).  The INLA was destroyed during and post [...]