The E-ARK Dissemination Strategy:Year 3

This Project Dissemination Strategy sets out the strategy for achieving the communications objectives for Project E-ARK. The over-riding principle behind this Plan is to raise awareness of and promote access to the archiving tools and knowledge base produced by the project to encourage adoption by both end-users and archiving systems manufacturer

The E-ARK Dissemination Strategy:Year 1

This Project Dissemination Strategy sets out the strategy for achieving the communications objectives for Project E-ARK. The over-riding principle behind this Plan is to raise awareness of and promote access to the archiving tools and knowledge base produced by the project to encourage adoption by both end-users and archiving systems manufacturer

Best Practice:SIP specification, records export requirements, transfer and ingest

This report provides an overview of the current situation of the digital archiving best practices. Special attention is placed on archival ingest workflows, submission information package formats used for transfer and ingest of digital objects and their metadata. Records export best practices are covered as well. The report consists of the following parts: • introduction; • description of the methods used for the analysis; • overview of the results with short descriptions of practices, standards and tools; • recommendations for the E-ARK project; • appendices (the survey questions, an assessment of the interviewed stakeholders, the questions from the qualitative interview and a terminology list). The study concentrates on the following topics from the archival workflow: • Records export (Pre-Ingest workflow steps); • Steps in Ingest workflow; • Submission information packages (SIP) used. Highlighted points of this best practice report for E-ARK work are: • One high-level (pre-) ingest workflow is proposed in section 4 which consists of 4 phases of the PAIMAS methodology, but several existing workflow parts must be examined more deeply to include the common steps to the E-ARK archiving workflow; • E-ARK needs to develop detailed and commonly understood requirements for the records export process which include procedures for data selection, extraction, metadata mapping, validation and quality control as these are currently lacking; • One high-level SIP structure is proposed in section 4. (Recommendation for further work), but several existing SIP physical and logical structures must be examined more deeply to include the common aspects of formats used at archives into the E-ARK SIP specification

212.09 LT4 All Together Now: Why inclusion and diversity are important for Digital Preservation

A quick search on diversity in business will bring up numerous articles and studies quoting stats about the increased successes of organisations with diverse workforces. These include figures such as an 80% improvement in business performance when levels of diversity and inclusion are high, and a 3-9% increase in sales revenues for every 1% increase in the rate of gender or ethnic diversity in a workforce. It also been demonstrated as having a positive impact on innovation and problem-solving; in a field such as Digital Preservation this should make encouraging diversity essential. These figures do, however, come with a disclaimer: taking a lip-service-only approach to diversity can lead to greater conflict and reduced productivity. Individuals must feel properly supported by management and their peers, and work must go into creating a real culture of understanding. We all feel more comfortable and perform better in an environment where we are respected, understood and appreciated. Likewise, working with people who have different life experiences challenges us to think differently and helps us innovate. As an organisation with community at its core, the Digital Preservation Coalition has decided to make a clear statement about its commitment to these issues through its new ‘Inclusion and Diversity Policy’. This presentation will explore the main themes of that document, whilst also encouraging a broader dialogue about how the Digital Preservation community can further steps towards inviting new voices to contribute to our discipline

People Get Ready - iPRES 2019 Amsterdam

Sustainability has been a key focus for the digital preservation community in recent years, but we have mostly focused on issues such as the sustainability of systems and funding. We cannot, however, be successful as a community without also developing a robust and skilled workforce. This paper will examine trends in workforce development in digital preservation and suggest steps forward we should take as a community

Introduction to digital preservation

Introduction to digital preservation for PASIG 2017 Oxford Bootcamp Day on 11 September 2017

Engaging Decision makers: An Executive Guide on Digital Preservation

Poster (Best Poster Award Winner

Engaging Decision Makers - iPRES 2019 Amsterdam

The Executive Guide on Digital Preservation provides practitioners with a combination of generic and specific messages and motivators designed to communicate with senior executives, legislators and budget holders, as well as decision and policy makers with a view to embedding the value of digital preservation at the core of every organization

Continuous Improvement Tools for Developing Capacity and Skills_20220912

In-Person Tutorial Recording: https://youtu.be/JrA9qLgPQL