[Asis-l] DCC and DPE announce the release of the Digital Repository Audit Tooklit (DRAMBORA)
Joy Davidson
british.editor at erpanet.org
Mon Mar 5 11:13:37 EST 2007
***Apologies for cross-posting***
Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA)
toolkit released and supporting tutorials announced
The DRAMBORA Toolkit
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and DigitalPreservationEurope
(DPE) are delighted to announce the release of the Digital Repository
Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) toolkit and
supporting tutorials. This toolkit facilitates internal audit by
providing repository administrators with a means to assess their
capabilities, identify their weaknesses, and recognise their
strengths. It complements other emerging work on attributes and
criteria for Trustworthy Digital Repositories. DRAMBORA can be
utilised by a broad range of digital repositories, including the
majority of current instances whose mandates do not yet include
responsibility for long-term digital preservation.
The development of this toolkit follows a concentrated period of
repository pilot audits undertaken by the DCC, conducted at a diverse
range of organisations including national libraries, scientific data
centres and cultural and heritage data archives. We recognise that
digital repositories are still in their infancy and, accordingly,
this model will respond to meet the changing needs caused by the
rapidly developing landscape.
This self-assessment toolkit was developed collaboratively by the DCC
(funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Core
eScience Programme run by EPSRC on behalf of all the Research Councils
in the UK) and DPE (co-funded by the European Commission).
These two initiatives will continue to work together to test and refine
the toolkit, to manage the online tool, which is available at
http://www.repositoryaudit.eu, and to foster its widest possible
take-up within the United Kingdom, Europe and broader international
contexts.
Chris Rusbridge, Director of the DCC, said ‘Digital Curation
embraces the whole life cycle of scientific data, and uses databases
and repositories with widely different scales and mandates. This
approach could have benefits across the whole spectrum. I welcome this
toolkit, emerging from a combination of theoretical and practical
underpinning, involving collaborations between different parts of the
DCC and many international bodies and individuals, which has such
strong potential for improving the management of scientific data.’
Seamus Ross, in his capacity as Director of
DigitalPreservationEurope, noted that, ‘Digital repositories provide
a fundamental mechanism for contemporary society to communicate our
cultural and scientific heritage with the future. If they are to do
this well then they must closely monitor what they do and how they do
it. This toolkit is designed to help them to meet these needs.’
While formal certification is still some time away, the DCC and DPE
are confident that there are many benefits to be gained by undertaking
the process of self-auditing. To support the take-up of the DRAMBORA
self-assessment toolkit in the UK, Europe, and beyond the DCC in
cooperation with DPE are pleased to announce three tutorials to
introduce the DRAMBORA toolkit.
Supporting Tutorials:
DCC Tutorial: Building Trust in Digital Repositories - Using the
DRAMBORA Toolkit
London, UK
26 April 2007 (from 11:00-16:00)
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/drambora-london-2007/
DPE Tutorial: Building Trust in Digital Repositories - Using the
DRAMBORA Toolkit
National Archives of the Netherlands
The Hague, The Netherlands
3 May 2007 (from 11:00-16:00)
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/drambora-hague-2007/
DCC at IS&T Archiving Conference: Building Trust in Digital
Repositories -
Using the DRAMBORA Toolkit
IS&T Archiving Conference
Virginia, USA
21 May 2007 (from 08:00-12:00)
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/IS&T-2007
<http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/IS&T-2007>
http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2007/tutorials.cfm
These practical tutorials open with a contextual overview of the need
for an evidence-based audit of digital repositories and describe the
results of the DCC pilot audits to date as well as lessons. The
tutorials will then move on to demonstrate how institutions can make use
of the DRAMBORA toolkit to design, develop, evaluate, and/or
refine new or existing trusted digital repository systems and
workflows. This will involve a walkthrough of the audit process with
practical examples based on the pilot audits.
Participants will be encouraged to draw upon and share their own
experiences during this discussion. Participants will receive a hard
copy of the DRAMBORA toolkit and related documentation to take away with
them so they can begin to assess their own repositories and workflows or
start developing a repository system.
Benefits of Participation:
This course will enable the attendee 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
** Contribute to the refining of the audit toolkit
Intended Audience:
This tutorial will be of interest to anyone involved in funding,
supporting, developing, implementing, managing, and/or using
digital repositories.
For more information on the toolkit and the tutorials, please see:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu
http://www.repositoryaudit.eu
Best regards,
Chris Rusbridge
Director Digital Curation Centre
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
&
Professor Seamus Ross
Director HATII at University of Glasgow,
Principal Director DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE),
& Associate Director Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk <http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/>
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu
<http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/>
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
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Notes for Editors:
The JISC-funded Digital Curation Centre (DCC) provides a focus on
research into digital curation expertise and best practice for the
storage, management and preservation of digital information to enable
its use and re-use over time. The project represents a collaboration
between the University of Edinburgh, the University of Glasgow
through HATII, UKOLN at the University of Bath, and the Council
of the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC). The
DCC relies heavily on active participation and feedback from all
stakeholder communities. The DCC is not itself a data repository.
Rather, based on insight from a vibrant research programme that
addresses wider issues of data curation and long-term preservation, it
has developed and offers programmes of outreach and practical services
to assist those who face digital curation challenges. It also seeks to
complement and contribute towards the efforts of related organisations,
rather than duplicate services. For more information see:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) is a three-year project
(2006-2009), co-funded by the European Commission
(IST-2006-034762), and comprising nine partner organisations from
eight European countries. It fosters collaboration and synergies
between existing national initiatives across the European Research Area
to address the need to improve coordination, cooperation and
consistency in current activities to secure effective preservation and
curation of digital materials. For more information see:
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu
Instructors:
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.
Seamus Ross, professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation
and director of Humanities Computing and Information Management at the
University of Glasgow, runs HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology
and Information Institute, of which he is the founding director. He
is an associate director of the DCC, a co-principal investigator in
the DELOS Digital Libraries Network of Excellence, and principal
director of DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE).
Raivo Ruusalepp is currently involved in the audit and certification of
digital repositories work of the EU DigitalPreservationEurope project.
He is employed at the National Archives of Netherlands and the Estonian
Business Archives. Ruusalepp has an MA in computing applications for
history from University of London and has worked with digital
archives and electronic records management for more than ten years.
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