http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/ Continuing updates on digital preservation training opportunities for all audiences and skill levels. Maintained by the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program. Mon, 21 May 2012 21:12:51 GMT ListGarden Program 1.3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/tttindiana.html The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program of the Library of Congress, in partnership with the Indiana State Archives and Indiana State Library, is pleased to announce a call for applications to participate in the DPOE Train-the-Trainer Workshop, Midwest Region. The workshop is made possible by a grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services. Mon, 21 May 2012 21:12:10 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/introdp.html Volunteers and professionals responsible for managing and preserving digital content are invited to a digital preservation workshop. The workshop is based on curriculum developed by the Library of Congress' Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program (DPOE), whose mission includes fostering national outreach and education to encourage individuals and organizations to actively preserve their digital content. The Indiana State Historic Records Advisory Board, in conjunction with the Indiana State Library and Indiana Commission on Public Records, are hosting and teaching the workshop. This workshop introduces fundamental concepts for managing your digital content over time through a series of six modules. Mon, 14 May 2012 19:17:57 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/describingav.html As repository managers will tell you managing, preserving and creating access to digital rich media audio and video files presents a complex set of challenges for administrators, content creators and users. Join Karen Cariani and representatives from AVPS and Stanford University for an overview of metadata and formats including the complexity of video metadata, and the challenges posed by those complexities. This presentation will conclude with a wrap up and general overview of video in repositories. Thu, 03 May 2012 14:04:35 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/creatingaccess.html As repository managers will tell you managing, preserving and creating access to digital rich media audio and video files presents a complex set of challenges for administrators, content creators and users. Join Karen Cariani and representatives from the Variations on Video project and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to learn about new strategies, best practices and scholarly applications for audio and visual digital media in your institutional repository. They will share their experiences with access, video issues and preservation storage. They will share their experiences with access, video issues and preservation storage, and discuss new open source iniatives related to video access and repositories. Thu, 03 May 2012 14:03:53 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/bigpicture.html As repository managers will tell you managing, preserving and creating access to digital rich media audio and video files presents a complex set of challenges for administrators, content creators and users. Join Karen Cariani and members of WGBH for an overview of digital audio and video preservation. They'll share workflows, challenges, best practices and complexities around differing video formats. Thu, 03 May 2012 14:03:03 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/gettingStarted.html In a six-hour workshop the mysteries of digital preservation will be revealed. Designed for practitioners, the workshop will provide an introduction to the fundamental digital preservation terms, concepts, and activities. Through hands-on exercises attendees will start constructing the building blocks of digital preservation methods and strategies they can bring back to their respective institutions to begin managing digital content for the long term. Topics will be presented in the form of six modules based on a curriculum developed by the Library of Congress’s Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program. Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:38:44 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/dpvideodc.html If content on analog videotape is to survive for the long term, the tapes must be digitized--moved from the unstable magnetic media on which the content is currently held, into the digital realm where--in theory--they can be preserved indefinitely and migrated forward as files rather than physical objects. Digitization, however, means more than simply selecting a destination file format. It requires a series of decisions that will determine the long-term viability of files created--and thus of the valuable video content. Workshop topics include: basic digital file creation, preservation and access file formats and codecs, software, storage and trusted digital repositories, workflows for digitization, and technical and preservation metadata. In addition, participants will examine case studies of small and large-scale digitization projects in order to understand real-world applications of principles introduced in the workshop. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:09:49 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/filenotfound.html This session provides a basic introduction to the concept of and issues associated with digital preservation. Digital resources are defined, the life-cycle of digital objects is discussed, and challenges and risks associated with digital preservation are identified. Participants will be introduced to the Library of Congress's Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Program. This introductory course is for staff of any library, archive, or other organization concerned about the long term care of their digital resources. No previous knowledge about the topic of digital preservation is assumed. Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:14:06 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/dpidentifyselectstore.html This workshop will be a half-day event for Michigan-based cultural heritage institutions and academic research centers to provide them with basic digital preservation curriculum for beginning to curate and preserve their digital collections. <br> <br>This free workshop is restricted to representatives from Michigan-based cultural heritage institutions, government agencies or academic research centers and limited to 50 seats. Please register by March 31st, 2012. Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:58:10 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov//education/courses/dpsustain.html This is the third session in Preservation Institute 2012: Born Digital. This session will focus on ensuring that electronic records and digital publications remain intact and accessible well into the future. It will detail how to mitigate the risks posed by hardware and software obsolescence, identify various options for processing and securely storing electronic records and digital publications, and outline how to minimize the risk that electronic files will be lost as a result of natural or human-caused disaster. It will also focus on making the case for digital preservation to senior managers, other resource allocators, and the general public. <br> <br> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:29:51 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/dplegal.html This is the second session of Preservation Institute 2012: Born Digital. The session will cover the legal considerations raised when a library goes digital: Intellectual Property laws, Fair Use, "Safe Harbor" under the DMCA, distance learning and the TEACH Act, the Creative Commons, cloud computing, computer theft and intrusion laws, privacy, negotiating licensing contracts, document retention, and distance learning for this overview and collection of best practices. Attendees will get a sense of both the "big picture," and some concrete tips and practices to keep up with the law--even as the law struggles to keep up with emerging technology! Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:29:14 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/dpcommitment.html This session will cover recent research into digital preservation policy and practice development, with a focus on building commitment across the library, including with administrators, to developing all of the resources needed to achieve digital preservation. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:42:45 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/dpvideo.html Is there a preservation format and access format standard for delivery of digital video? Are some formats more appropriate for preservation and access than others? Are there established digital video preservation methods? The topic of preservation formats for video is a timely topic, and one that is relevant to curators and librarians. This webinar will discuss the basics of video digitization. We will also talk about the challenges of handling born-digital video and how cultural heritage institutions can mitigate some of these challenges. This is a webinar designed for people will little or no experience working with digitized and born-digital video in a preservation context. There will be plenty of time for questions as well. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:42:16 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/textcuration.html How is digital curation different from digital preservation? Some would say that instead of merely preserving for viewing, digital curation allows content to be adapted for other uses. This presentation will discuss an approach to digitizing documents that supports future adaptation. The Best Practices for TEI in Libraries gives guidance on digitizing documents in a way that goes beyond mere page images by encoding the text in a structured, open format (TEI XML). TEI is not only an open standard with rich metadata; a TEI document can be rendered in various formats, analyzed quantitatively, and, by following the philosophy of the Best Practices, “upgraded” to support future scholarly research needs. Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:41:38 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/managingandpreservinggr.html If you manage or need help preserving your digital content you are invited to a digital preservation workshop. The workshop will be held in Green River, Utah, on April 20, 2012. The Harold B. Lee Library and the John Wesley Powell River History Museum are hosting this free, one day workshop which will provide valuable information for those who manage digital records. The workshop will focus on identifying, storing, protecting and overall management of potentially long-term digital records. The workshop is based on curriculum developed by the Library of Congress’ Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program (DPOE). Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:30:30 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/managingandpreserving.html Anyone responsible for managing and preserving digital content is invited to a digital preservation workshop based on curriculum developed by the Library of Congress’ Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program (DPOE). The DPOE workshop will be held at Brigham Young University, March 16, 2012. The Harold B. Lee Library is hosting this free, one day event, which will provide valuable information for those who manage digital records. The workshop will focus on identifying, storing, protecting and overall management of potentially long-term digital records. Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:29:48 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/basicelectronicrecords.html Archivists have to start somewhere, and this workshop provides the basics. Attendees are introduced to the principles of appraising, accessioning, preserving, and providing access to records in digital formats. Upon completing this workshop, attendees will be able to identify goals and objectives for addressing electronic records within their own institution’s mission; discuss and examine various technical and organization issues; and develop a tentative plan for action with their organization. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:55:10 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/managingpreserving.html Volunteers and professionals responsible for managing and preserving digital content are invited to a digital preservation workshop based on curriculum developed by the Library of Congress’ Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program (DPOE). The DPOE workshop will be held at the Indiana State Library on March 27, 2012. The Indiana State Historic Records Advisory Board (SHRAB), in conjunction with the Indiana State Library and Indiana Commission on Public Records (ICPR), are hosting this free, all-day event, which will provide valuable information for those who manage digital records. The workshop will focus on identifying, storing, protecting and overall management of potentially long-term digital records. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:35:47 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/dpplanning.html This one hour webinar will introduce you to the key concepts for digital preservation planning. Included in the webinar will be an introduction to the standards underlying preservation planning and digital preservation solutions and services. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:26:28 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/governmentstewardship.html The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and School of Government (SOG) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) will hold a day-long symposium called “Government Bits: Stewardship of Public Information in a Changing Digital Landscape”. The symposium will include panel discussions and other interactive sessions related to lessons and strategies for professionals to engage in public information stewardship. Themes of the day will include challenges in the stewardship of electronic records; current solutions for digital records environments; moving from a paper-based environment to a digital environment; information stewardship strategies for public administrators; and building information systems for information stewardship. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:17:51 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/digitalaudiovideo.html Participants in this webinar will be able to make informed decisions about digital audio and video projects and revisit their planned or existing projects with an eye to making sure they will be useful and sustainable into the future. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:25:24 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/basicsrecords3.html This course instructs state employees on how to identify, manage and preserve the public records they produce in the course of their work. The course will cover both traditional paper records and electronic or born-digital records of all formats and types. There are no prerequisites, but it is recommended that participants review their agency's record schedules prior to the course. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:56:14 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/basicsrecords2.html This course instructs state employees on how to identify, manage and preserve the public records they produce in the course of their work. The course will cover both traditional paper records and electronic or born-digital records of all formats and types. There are no prerequisites, but it is recommended that participants review their agency's record schedules prior to the course. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:55:17 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/basicsrecords1.html This course instructs state employees on how to identify, manage and preserve the public records they produce in the course of their work. The course will cover both traditional paper records and electronic or born-digital records of all formats and types. There are no prerequisites, but it is recommended that participants review their agency's record schedules prior to the course. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:54:38 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/whatwhyhow.html Based upon materials of the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program, Library of Congress, this program is intended to teach the audience the basic principles and practices of preserving digital materials. The program will answer questions such as: what is digital preservation? Why and how to preserve digital materials? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:16:58 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/aserl3.html Long-term access is the purpose of digital preservation – organizations preserve content to be able to make it available as needed or desired over time. In order to provide this access, we need to consider the concepts, roles, and challenges involved. Furthermore, managing digital content for the long term requires program planning, implementation, and sustainability. A core component of this is preservation planning, which includes organizational aspects (e.g., policy development, training, legal issues) and resources (e.g., designated funding and sustainability). This discussion will highlight some steps organizations can take to make long-term access to digital content more possible to achieve. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:10:43 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/aserl2.html Digital content that has been selected for preservation needs to be stored in ways that align with good practice. It’s necessary to consider the file formats that are best suited for archiving, the requirements for processing, and the metadata needed to make use of this content in the future. Organizations also need storage management policies and procedures that ensure multiple copies in at least two locations. Once stored, content needs protection. This includes everyday concerns (such as who has access and whether files have changed), as well as emergency contingencies (business continuity and disaster planning). We will address how to manage roles and responsibilities for physical and virtual access to digital content throughout its life cycle. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:10:13 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/aserl1.html The first step in preparing for digital preservation is to identify all the potential content that may warrant this attention. This could include born-digital content arriving in special collections and archives, material digitized on site for online access, and content created by students, faculty, and researchers. This process will inform an organization about the categories of content and types of files it might need / want to preserve, as well as the challenges that might be encountered in doing so. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:09:38 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/policypractice.html This course is intended to serve as a bridge between archivists, curators, researchers, legal experts and policymakers whose work deals with digital records, cultural heritage collections and/or open data. Launching an itinerary to reform the political and statutory landscape by uniting the efforts of key stakeholders is one of the broad purposes of the course. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:54:41 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/demystifydp.html Do you have digital stuff? Want to keep it? In this conference session we’ll share key concepts, considerations, and strategies for storing and protecting your digital materials. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:53:49 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/filenaming.html This four-part video tutorial describes why file naming is important, how to change a file name, what not to do when changing a file name, and best practices for file naming. These brief videos simply and clearly describe how deliberate file naming, a common everyday practice, can lead to responsible file management and ongoing digital preservation. All four videos can be found on YouTube on the State Library's channel. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:55:41 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/alliancedigital.html Final webinar in the €œKnowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning curated webinar series. The Director of the Alliance Digital Repository will provide a case study of how the ADR collaborative migrated their digital collections from Fedora to Islandora. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:31:00 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/planningsuccess.html 2nd webinar in the Knowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning curated webinar series. Learn how strategic planning can facilitate the implementation of a digital preservation program for your institute. Presenters will share their experiences in developing a digital preservation plan and outline the steps involved in implementation. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:30:10 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/preservationreadiness.html 1st webinar in the nowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning curated webinar series which will focus on the processes and best practices for preservation planning. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:29:30 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/preservingdigitalarchivesDAS.html What do you need to know to preserve born-digital materials successfully once they’ve crossed the archives threshold? With an emphasis on modern records and technology, you’ll learn about the concepts and competencies you need to construct and administer digital archives. You’ll examine accepted digital archives models and implementations and emerging standards of practice, as well as preservation metadata schemas and their use in digital archives. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:28:41 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/managingelectronicrecordsDAS.html In this workshop you will get more than policy and theory! After review and discussion about electronic record issues facing colleges and universities, you will break into groups to discuss case studies and report findings. Day 2 will be devoted to demonstrations of tools supporting electronic records workflows including Archivematica, HTTrack, and forensic tools. Attendees will learn about and use open source tools for ingest and management of electronic records. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:27:56 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/basicelectronicrecordsDAS.html You have to start somewhere and this workshop gives you the basics. You are introduced to the principles of appraising, accessioning, preserving and providing access to records in digital formats. Upon completing this workshop you’ll be able to: Identify goals and objectives for addressing electronic records within your own institution's mission Discuss and examine various technical and organizational issues Develope a tentative plan for action within your organization Who should attend? This workshop is intended for archivists who have a good understanding of archival principles and techniques but need basic training in how to apply those principles to records in electronic form. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:27:22 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/rochesterpreservation3.html This class will discuss management of and access to digital content over the long term. Effective management of digital content requires planning, implementation, and sustainability, and includes organizational aspects such as policy development and training, and necessary resources such as designated funding. Long term access to digital content is the purpose of digital preservation. Providing access addresses the concepts, roles, and challenges involved in making digital content accessible over time, not of providing real-time access in the present. This webinar will also include a wrap-up of the digital preservation principles discussed throughout the series. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:26:41 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/rochesterpreservation2.html This is the second class in a three-part series on digital preservation. It is recommended that you take all three classes in this series (3/8, 4/12, 5/10). This class will address best practices in storing digital content and the various aspects of protecting that content. Best practices for storing digital content include maintaining multiple copies of digital objects in at least two locations, with digital objects consisting of files and associated metadata. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:25:11 GMT http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/rochesterpreservation1.html This is the first class in a three-part series on digital preservation. This course will address the scope of digital content potentially available at an institution, as well as the process for selecting digital content for preservation. The scope of content will include digital content currently in the custody of a cultural heritage institution and digital content that has been or will be created in the future. The process for selecting digital content for preservation may be known by different terms in institutions, e.g., appraisal in archives, selection in libraries, or acquisition in museums, but there are common principles and outcomes that may be applied across all types of institutions. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:23:45 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/datacuration.html A Data Curation Profiles (DCP) Workshop on Monday, March 19, 2012 will be hosted by Boston University. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is funding a limited number of workshops to train librarians in the application and use of the Data Curation Profiles Toolkit. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:51:37 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/digitalcuration.html Digital archives require professional curatorial practices just as paper archives do! In this course you’ll discover the differences and similarities between curating paper and electronic records, a system of best practices for digital curation, and review what any institution needs to implement to ensure the success of its own digital curation. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:54:47 GMT http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/courses/index.html The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program is excited to introduce its new RSS feed and email subscription system. This will allow DPOE to inform the public of new digital preservation training opportunities as they become available. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:54:05 GMT