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Aims of the programme

The DPTP is a modular training programme, built around themed sessions that have been developed to assist you in designing and implementing an approach to preservation that will work for your institution.

The course content is aimed at multiple levels of attendee: people from technical and archival professions come together, to learn the same standards and methods for digital preservation. The overall aim of the course is critical thinking, assessing ways of acting and planning at an organisational level.

Through a wide range of modules, the DPTP examines the need for policies, planning, strategies, standards and procedures in digital preservation, and teaches some of the most up-to-date methods, tools and concepts in the area. It covers these topics via a mixture of lectures, discussions, practical tasks and exercises, and a class project. (The course does not, however, offer hands-on training with any of these tools, and is not an ‘enabling’ course).

Scheduled DPTP courses run over 3 days and take place regularly throughout the year. In addition,we can provide a version of the course customised to suit your individual institutional needs, and delivered on-site.

History of DPTP

Our programme builds on the excellent foundations of Cornell’s Digital Preservation Management Workshop, whose development was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The programme began life as a project funded by JISC under its Digital Preservation and Asset Management programme. That project was led by ULCC, working with its partners the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Cornell University. ULCC now own the programme and are taking it forward as of 2007. The course has been developed by ULCC and the original project partners, along with King’s College London Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) and ADS/AHDS Archaeology.

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Video interviews with DPTP presenters and course attendants give a flavour of the programme.

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Feedback from previous courses

  • “…the most beneficial and well presented, thought out course that I’ve ever attended in 10 years as a professional”
  • “Thanks to you for your efforts to consolidate all digital preservation related subjects in one course. I believe this has enabled the participants to understand the wider picture of the digital preservation in a national and international context.”
  • “Well done, excellent content and a very enjoyable course”
  • “The course was very good and value for money”
  • “…thanks to all of you for your work on the fantastic DPTP course. It was without doubt the best training course I’ve ever been on, and I’m sure I’ll be referring to my folder for years to come. Somehow you even managed to transform the OAIS model from something confusing and a bit scary, into something understandable!”