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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 [...]

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 [...]

Digital Preservation Training Programme March 2010

Hard to believe that yet another DPTP has come and gone.  We had a full house again for this course and had to close bookings due to demand.  We had a very international attendance once again with people from the Netherlands, Iraq and Venezuela (via Essex) attending.  Our UK represenatation was very impressive with large [...]

Digital Preservation Training Programme, Web Archiving workshop, London, June 2010

Digital Preservation Training Programme, Web Archiving workshop, London, June 2010 We are pleased to announce a series of of one-day workshops to be delivered as a follow-up to the established Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP). A one-day workshop on web archiving will be held at SOAS on 28th June 2010. The workshop will look at [...]

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 [...]