DELOS International Summer School on
Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries

Pisa (Italy), 3-8 June 2007
 
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 

School Website: http://www.dpc.delos.info/ss07/
     
  

The third DELOS Network of Excellence summer school programme on 'Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries: Realising Possibilities'. The DELOS Network of Excellence is a four-year project funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme to synergize and foster technology for the next-generation of Digital Libraries.
  
Participation in the School assists attendees in understanding how to address digital preservation challenges within the context of the digital library. In addition, the School provides a networking opportunity by creating the opportunity to meet with other researchers, international experts, and practitioners across disciplinary and national boundaries.
  
The school will take place at Santa Croce in Fossabanda (Pisa, Italy) during the week beginning 3 June 2007. We hope that the audience will be young researchers and professionals with an interest in the topic. Internationally established lecturers will each lead one half-day session and most will be available through the week for further discussion.

The DELOS summer school is supported by the UK Digital Curation Centre (http://www.dcc.ac.uk) (DCC), and Digital Preservation Europe (DPE).
  
  
  

Program 
   

This one-week intensive school will consist of nine half-day sessions. Established lecturers will each lead a session and most of them will be available through the week for further discussion.
All morning and afternoon session timings include 30 minutes for coffee or tea breaks.
  

TIMETABLE

  

Lecturers include:

• Michael Day (UKOLN)
• Maria Guercio (University of Urbino & CASPAR)
• Hans Hofman (National Archives of the Netherlands)
• Andrew McHugh (Digital Curation Centre, UK)
• Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology)
• Peter Rödig (Universität der Bundeswehr München)
• Seamus Ross (HATII at the University of Glasgow)
• Stefan Strathmann (NESTOR)
• Manfred Thaller (University of Cologne)
• Ken Thibodeau (NARA)
     

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the Summer School, student s will have:

• gained an appreciation of the issues surrounding digital preservation within the context of digital library development and management;
• developed a grasp of the core research in the area of digital curation and preservation;
• developed a coherent and practical understanding of activities surrounding digital preservation;
• gained experience with issues surrounding workflow modelling, metadata definition, and ingest process management;
• acquired an appreciation of the different approaches to selecting and appraising potential digital acquisitions;
• gain a knowledge of the approaches to repository design and deployment;
• a working knowledge of the issues surrounding assessment and audit of digital repositories;
• working knowledge of the techniques and practices that underlie digital curation;
• develop a firm understanding of the issues of authenticity, integrity, and reliability in relation to digital libraries;
• considered how digital curation and preservation requirements can be integrated into approaches to digital library development.