[Web4lib] DRAMBORA Auditor Training Course, DPE/DCC Joint Training Event, Prague, Czech Republic, 13-17 October 2008

[Perla Innocenti]

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***DRAMBORA Auditor Training Course, DPE/DCC Joint Training Event, Prague, Czech Republic, 13-17 October 2008***

 

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC, http://www.dcc.ac.uk) and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE, http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu) are delighted to announce the first of a series of training courses for new DRAMBORA auditors, 13th to the 17th of October 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Detailed programme and registration at http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/training/prague-2008/

 

Intended Audience 

This course is designed for practitioners actively involved in funding, supporting, developing, implementing, and/or managing digital preservation repositories. The course will also be of value to auditors and risk managers from archives, libraries and museums sectors, and legal professionals and consultants. The maximum number of participants envisaged for this course is ten.

 

Learning objectives

By the end of the course attendees will:

 

* Comprehend the concept of risk with regards to digital preservation repositories

* Recognise the need for evidence-based evaluation for building trust in digital repositories

* Understand how the DCC/DPE self-assessment toolkit can be used to help design and develop systems and workflows that can help build trusted digital repositories

* Gain skills needed to undertake a thorough assessment of digital repositories using the DCC/DPE self-assessment toolkit DRAMBORA

* Appreciate the range of staff and skill-sets required to implement and sustain a trusted digital repository

* Obtain a working knowledge of the issues surrounding assessment, and audit and certification of digital preservation repositories.

 

Teaching methods

Learning will we through a combination of lectures and practical exercises focused on hands-on group activities. After-course learning care will include access to online tutorials and support.

 

Trainers

DPE and DCC teaching team authored the DRAMBORA toolkit and have inside knowledge of other repository audit and certification tools and practical experience in using them: Hans Hofman (DPE and National Archives of Netherlands); Perla Innocenti (DCC and HATII at the University of Glasgow); Andrew McHugh (Planets and HATII at the University of Glasgow); Seamus Ross (DCC, DPE, and HATII at the University of Glasgow); and, Raivo Ruusalepp (DPE and National Archives of Netherlands).

 

For more information and to register:

http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/training/prague-2008/

http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/

training at repositoryaudit.eu

 

Kind regards,





Perla Innocenti

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Perla Innocenti
Researcher/SHAMAN Co-PI 
HATII, University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44(0)141 330 4453
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
p.innocenti at hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk 
www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk