[Asis-l] DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint Workshop on Digital Repositories and DCC/DPE Forum on Developing an International Framework for Audit and Certification

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor are delighted to announce the following events
focusing on digital repositories. 

DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint Workshop: 
Practices and Challenges in Preservation and Access for Scientific and
Scholarly Digital Repositories 
27-28 November 2007
Campus Adlershof, Humboldt University Berlin
http://www.wepreserve.eu/events/dr-2007/

Scientific and scholarly content such as articles and data are increasingly
deposited in institutional and subject-based repositories. 
These developments pose practical, conceptual and organisational challenges
for accessing these contents now and in a future-proof manner. 
The long-term survival, value and usability of the information stored within
digital repositories depends on numerous criteria such as the formats
selected for storage, the capture of associated metadata, proactive
preservation measures, and the perceived trust in the repository itself. 

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Digital Preservation Europe (DPE),
Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER), and
Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources (nestor) are
delighted to announce that they will be delivering a joint workshop on the
long-term curation of scientific and scholarly digital repository content. 
This workshop will highlight current practices and shall provide insights
into current initiatives and technical systems being developed. For more
information, please see http://www.wepreserve.eu/events/dr-2007/. 

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DCC/DPE Forum: Developing an International Framework for Audit and
Certification
29 November 2007
Campus Adlershof, Humboldt University Berlin
http://www.wepreserve.eu/events/audit-2007/ 

We are delighted to announce that we will be holding a related DPE/DCC Audit
and Certification Forum directly following the DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint
Workshop. 

This event aims to bring together repository practitioners, professional
auditors, representatives from international funding bodies, and members of
the research community to determine the feasibility of digital repository
certification on an international scale. For more information, please see
http://www.wepreserve.eu/events/audit-2007/.
 
Registration is free for participants of the DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor Joint
Workshop*. For all other participants, the registration fee is 50 euros. You
can register online at http://www.wepreserve.eu/events/audit-2007/register/.

*Please note: If you have already registered for the DCC/DPE/DRIVER/Nestor
Joint Workshop, please ensure that you enter 'workshop participant' in the
'role' field of the audit and certification forum registration form so that
you will not be invoiced.

Best regards,

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