Course
Modules
The training course modules are far reaching and comprehensive, addressing the most up-to-date and relevant topics in the digital preservation arena. Accompanying course materials and a large practical component ensures that any hands-on learning reinforces key concepts and strategies explored during the course. The content of the modules is tailored, in recognition of the fact that some issues are global in nature while allowing for national variations.
Course modules are taught via a mixture of lectures, discussions, practical exercises, and a class project. You can find out more about each module by clicking on the links below.
- Five organisational stages
- OAIS functions
- Institutional repositories
- Legal issues
- Access
- Tools of the trade
- Preservation approaches
- Preservation metadata
- File formats
- Costs and risks management
- Certification and outsourcing
- Influencing the organisation
Pre-course requirements
The following documents are required reading and underpin many of the course modules:
- The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide by Brian Lavoie (Office of Research OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., DPC Technology Watch Series Report 04-01, 2004)
- Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities RLG-OCLC Report [an RLG-OCLC Report, May 2002]
- Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC): Criteria and Checklist, February 2007
The following document is optional reading:
- Reference model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) [Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, January 2002]
We also advise that you complete an online tutorial before attending DPTP. The link above leads to the original online tutorial built by Cornell University (now maintained by ICPSR in Michigan).
