Goportis - Leibniz Library Network for Research Information is organising the Digital Preservation Summit from October 19-20, 2011, in Hamburg. An international group of practitioners of digital preservation will be coming together to discuss concrete solutions for their daily work and share their knowledge and experiences in the field of digital preservation.
The first day of the conference is dedicated to the institutional and technical preparations for digital preservation. As a prelude to the conference presentations, Dr. Adam Farquar will give an overview on the necessary preparations and the often underestimated challenges regarding the digital preservation of objects. Dr. Farquar is the Head of Digital Library Technology at the British Library and founder of the Open Planets Foundation. His address will be followed by a presentation and discussion on a variety of examples from practice concerning choice and risk assessment of digital stocks.
The different expert presentations will be followed by a workshop session. Here the conference participants can ask questions concerning their research areas and find joint solutions.
The following day will be devoted to the Ingest process using examples from different digital collections. Prof. Seamus Ross, Dean of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, will give an introduction to the topic. The following presentations will be on tools and the implementation of Ingest workflows for different types of material. The day will also focus on practical relevance and exchange of experiences.
The Digital Preservation Summit 2011 will conclude with a panel discussion with Twitterwall on the topic of organisation and infrastructure for digital preservation.
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