Digital Preservation Workflows Webinar Series 2023

Free to attend and open to all, the Digital Preservation Workflows Webinar series will showcase just some of the digital preservation workflow processes developed and implemented by DPC Member institutions.

Each speaker will present their workflow, which represents a part of the digital preservation process or a particular digital media or content type, before we open the floor for discussion and a chance to ask questions.

Webinar series program

Episode 1: Tuesday 28 February, 1600 - 1800 UTC / 1100-1300 UTC-5

Speakers:

• Heather Tompkins, Library and Archives Canada - Pre-Ingest processing for transferred digital archives.
• Karyn Williamson, abrdn - Manual open-source workflow
• Tricia Patterson and Jessi Jassal, Harvard Library - ePADD email preservation workflow
• COW-a-thon:
  • Each episode will conclude with a community hackathon or ‘COW-a-thon,’ as we invite speakers and participants in the webinars AND the wider digital preservation community to contribute their own workflows into the Community Owned Workflows COPTR wiki.

Episode 2: Wednesday 1st March, 1000-1200 UTC / 1100 - 1300 UTC+1

Speakers:

• Silvia Galotti and Nick Bywell, LSE Library - Born-digital archives workflow and a demonstration of the Graphical User Interface as a front-end for the LSE Digital Toolkit
• Tom Wilson and Patricia Sleeman, UNHCR - Pre-ingest workflows for digitisation projects
• Jaime Penagos, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - eHumanities workflow
• COW-a-thon:
  • Each episode will conclude with a community hackathon or ‘COW-a-thon,’ as we invite speakers and participants in the webinars AND the wider digital preservation community to contribute their own workflows into the Community Owned Workflows COPTR wiki.

Episode 3: Wednesday 1st March, 2200 - 0000 UTC/ 0900 - 1100 UTC+11 (+1)

Speakers:

• Julia Miller, PARADISEC archive - Small archive workflows
• Andrew Martin, DAMSmart - PARADISEC digitisation workflow
• Elizabeth Hawkins, Queensland State Archives - Gaia resources workflow
• COW-a-thon:
  • Each episode will conclude with a community hackathon or ‘COW-a-thon,’ as we invite speakers and participants in the webinars AND the wider digital preservation community to contribute their own workflows into the Community Owned Workflows COPTR wiki.

Episode 4: Thursday 2nd March, 1200-1400 UTC

Speakers:

• Chris Knowles, Churchill Archives Centre - command sets for freely available tools
• Stephen McConnachie, BFI - MediaConch workflow
• Joanna White, BFI - RAWCooked workflow
• COW-a-thon:
  • Each episode will conclude with a community hackathon or ‘COW-a-thon,’ as we invite speakers and participants in the webinars AND the wider digital preservation community to contribute their own workflows into the Community Owned Workflows COPTR wiki

Who should attend?

This series of events will interest:

• Those starting out in digital preservation and looking for workflow inspiration
• Those looking to find out more about simple workflow using free tools
• Those looking for ideas to improve or enhance their own workflows
• Those with workflows ready to contribute and discuss

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 and attending this session to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.