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Digital Preservation Tools for Repository Managers

Join the KeepIt project for a practical course on digital preservation tools for repository managers. Learn about preservation workflows, formats, metadata, and more. Enhance your skills in managing digital objects effectively.

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Digital Preservation Tools for Repository Managers

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  1. Digital Preservation Tools for Repository Managers A practical course in five parts presented by the KeepIt project in association with Module 3, Primer on preservation workflow, formats and characterisation Westminster-Kingsway College, London, 2 March 2010 Twitter hashtag #dprc(digital preservation repository course)

  2. Course structure • Module 1. Organisational issues Scoping, selection, assessment, institutional parameters (19 January) • Module 2. CostsLifecycle costs for managing digital objects, based on the LIFE approach, and institutional costs (5 February) • Module 3. Description Describing content for preservation: provenance, significant properties and preservation metadata (TODAY) • Module 4. Preservation workflow toolsavailable in EPrints for format management, risk assessment and storage, and linked to the Plato planning tool from Planets (17-18 March) • Module 5. Trust (by others) of the repository’s approach to preservation; trust (by the repository) of the tools and services it chooses (30th March)

  3. A slight change in emphasis Primer on preservation workflow, formats and characterisation • Controlling format risk • Identifying significant characteristics • Description: • Provenance • Preservation metadata

  4. A bigger change in emphasis Primer on preservation workflow, formats and characterisation • Controlling format risk • Identifying significant properties • Description: • Provenance • Preservation metadata

  5. Tools today • Significant characteristics, Stephen Grace and Gareth Knight, King’s College London • PREMIS, Open Provenance Model

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