[Asis-l] DCC and LUCAS Joint Workshop

Tue Oct 24 11:44:22 EDT 2006

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DCC and LUCAS Joint Workshop
November 30th-December 1st, 2006
The Foresight Centre, 
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006

The Digital Curation Centre and Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies (LUCAS) are pleased to announce that they will be delivering a two-day workshop to explore pre and post-ingest activity for digital archival collections. This event will be held in the Gallery at the Foresight Centre, Liverpool on November 30th and December 1st, 2006. 

This workshop will investigate pre and post-ingest activity through a mixture of case studies and presentations. 

Benefits of Attendance:
This workshop will be of benefit to individuals and institutions that are interested in collecting and managing digital archival collections. This event will specifically explore key issues associated with developing a pre-ingest strategy, ingest processes, and preservation activity.  

Dates: 
This workshop will be held on the afternoon of Thursday November 30th and all day Friday December 1st, 2006. 

Format
This two-day event will be split over two sessions. The first will explore pre-ingest activity and will include presentations on developing a pre-ingest strategy, improving contact with content creators and depositors, and understanding the benefits of compliance with standards. The second session will include presentations and case studies that illustrate ingest processes for a range of record types, format identification, and preservation activity.

Venue
This event will be held in the Gallery at the Foresight Centre, Liverpool. For more information about the venue, please see http://www.foresightcentre.co.uk/.

Travel Instructions
Please see http://www.foresightcentre.co.uk/location.html for information travelling to the Foresight Centre. 

Accommodation
Please see http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006
for a list of hotels in the area. 

Registration
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006
Registration fees are £100 for DCC Associates Network and £150 for non-members. Membership of the DCC Associates Network is free and more information on becoming a member can be found at http://www.dcc.ac.uk/network.html.Registration

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Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Service House, 11 University Gardens, University of Glasgow G12 8QJ Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.erpanet.org

*****Register now for the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference
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Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
George Service House, 11 University Gardens,
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QJ
Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 3549
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.erpanet.org

*****Register now for the 2nd International Digital Curation Conference
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/dcc-2006/ *****