Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives | Launch Event

This World Digital Preservation Day, kindly sponsored by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is working in partnership with the AHRC funded Towards a National Collection Project, ‘Our Heritage, Our Stories’ (OHOS) to celebrate community archives. This event will launch a toolkit for community generated digital content that addresses digital preservation of this fragile and valuable material. This toolkit has been created by the DPC in collaboration with a wide range of community archives and will be sustained by the DPC over the long-term.

Programme (times in GMT)

09:45 - 10:25: Registration and Refreshments

10:30 - 10:40: Welcome and Introduction

• Pete Williams, Deputy Librarian for Senate House Library

10:40 - 11:10: Community Archives – Landscape, Fragility and new developments

• Lorna Hughes – Principal Investigator, Our Heritage, Our Stories Project

11:10 – 11:40: Community Archives Toolkit Launch

• Karyn Williamson – Our Heritage Our Stories Representative

11.40 - 12:00: Community Archive Case Studies

• Choose/ Create Your Content – Eleni Parisi – Bengali Photo Archive

• Organise Your Content – Mark Hourihane – Leas Pavillion Archive

• Understand your content - Gill Binnie and Peter Higgins - Birmingham People's History Archive (BPHA)

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch and Networking

13:00 – 13:45: Community Archive Case Studies Continued

• Control your Content - Orla Egan – Cork LGBT Archive

• Plan to Share - Alison Surtees – Manchester Digital Music Archive

• You Are Not Alone- Julie Melrose, Haringey Archive and Museum Service

13:45 – 14:00: Case Studies Q and A Session

14:00 – 15:00: Panel – What comes next?

• William Kilbride – Executive Director, Digital Preservation Coalition (Chair)

• Lorna Hughes – Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow

• Karyn Williamson – Digital Preservation Analyst, Digital Preservation Coalition

• Samantha Bell – The National Archive UK

• Dr Andrew Flynn – Reader in Archival Studies & Oral History University College London

• Simon Popple – University of Leeds 

15:00 – 15:10: Event wrap up and close

Registration

Registration for the face-to-face event is open to all, though numbers are limited.

Registration for the online event will open two weeks before.

Registration will close on the 1st of November. If you wish to register after registration has closed, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org If you need to cancel, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org with the event name. If cancelling please try to provide more than 48 hours’ notice before the scheduled event time.

DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.