[Asis-l] Pre-SOA Conferece Workshop: Building Trust in Digital Repositories Using the DRAMBORA Toolkit

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

Digital Curation Centre (DCC) SoA Pre-conference Tutorial
Building Trust in Digital Repositories
Using the DRAMBORA Toolkit
27 August 2007
The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland 
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/drambora-belfast-2007/

Running from 11.00am to 4.00pm, this practical tutorial will provide a
contextual overview of the need for an evidence-based evaluation of digital
repositories and offer an overview of the DCC pilot audits to date. The
tutorial will then move on to demonstrate how institutions can make use of
the DRAMBORA toolkit to design, develop, evaluate, and refine new or
existing trusted digital repository systems and workflows. This will involve
a walk-through of the toolkit sections with practical examples based on the
pilot audits. Participants were encouraged to draw upon and share their own
experiences during this discussion. Participants will receive a hard copy of
the various DRAMBORA worksheets to take away with them so they could begin
to assess their own repositories and workflows or start developing their own
repository system.

This event is being held in cooperation with the Society of Archivists (SoA)
Annual Conference. The SoA conference  entitled 'Differing Directions:
Challenging Communities' tackles many of the important issues regarding the
future of archives. For more information on the conference, please see
http://www.archives.org.uk/thesociety/conference2007belfast.html.


Benefits of Participation
This course will enable attendees to:
- Comprehend the concepts of trust with regards to digital repositories 
- Recognize the need for evidence-based evaluation for building trust in 
  digital repositories 
- Understand how the DRAMBORA toolkit can be used to help design and develop
  systems and workflows that can help build trusted digital repositories 
- Obtain skills needed to undertake a thorough assessment of digital
  repositories using the DRAMBORA toolkit 
- Appreciate the range of staff and skill-sets required to implement and
  sustain a trusted digital repository 

Intended Audience
The intended audience for this event is anyone involved in funding,
supporting, developing, implementing, and/or managing digital repositories.

Registration
Registration fees are £30 for DCC Associates Network members and £60 for
non-members.
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/drambora-belfast-2007/register.

Instructor
Andrew McHugh, Advisory Services Manager for the DCC since 2004, leads a
world-class team of digital curation practitioners in offering leading-edge
expertise and insight in a range of issues. His most recent work at the DCC
has involved leading its work in trusted repository Audit and Certification.
McHugh also lectures on multimedia systems and design on the MSc in
Information Technology run by the Computing Science Department at Glasgow. 

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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 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu
british.editor at erpanet.org