Digital Preservation Cluster (WP6)
Summer School 2005: Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries
Session Plans & Biographical Sketches of Lecturers
An overview of the session presenters and the timetable for the summer school can be found below. To access either of these directly, please select one of the following links.
Co-Sponsor: Digital Curation Centre (DCC) of the United Kingdom
The DCC is funded by the JISC & the EPSRC (www.dcc.ac.uk)
Host: ERCIM & INRIA
Seamus Ross & Hans Hofman
Academic Directors of the DELOS 2005 Summer School
On behalf of the Digital Preservation Cluster of DELOS
http://www.dpc.delos.info
Lecturers and Session Presenters
- Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Head of Development at the State and University Library in Aarhus. [more]
- Michael Day, Research and Development team at UKOLN. [more]
- David Giaretta, Associate Director for Development at the UK Digital Curation Centre. [more]
- Mariella Guercio, professor in archival science and electronic record management, ISTBAL, Università degli Studi di Urbino. [more]
- Ross Harvey, inaugural Professor of Library and Information Management at Charles Sturt University's School of Information Studies. [more]
- Stephan Heuscher, co-founder ikeep AG (Digital Archives Services). [more]
- Hans Hofman, co-director of ERPANET and senior advisor at the Nationaal Archief (National Archives) of the Netherlands. [more]
- Anne R. Kenney, Associate University Librarian for Instruction, Research, and Information Services at Cornell University Library. [more]
- Andreas Rauber, Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology.[more]
- Seamus Ross, Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation, and Director HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) (http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk), University of Glasgow. [more]
- Manfred Thaller, Professor of Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, University of Köln. [more]
DELOS SS2005 Timetable
Sunday, 5 June 2005
- 18:30 Overview of the Summer School and Introduction to the Lecturers [more]
- 19:30 Opening Reception at ERCIM/INRIA
Monday, 6 June 2005
- 9:00 - 12:30 Digital Curation in Digital Libraries: Issues, Obstacles, and Possibilities (Anne R. Kenney is Associate University Librarian for Instruction, Research, and Information Services at Cornell University Library) [more]
- 14:00 - 17:30: Unpacking The OAIS Model (David Giaretta is the Associate Director for Development at the UK Digital Curation Centre) [more]
Tuesday, 7 June 2005
- 9:00 - 12:30: Categories, Uses and Challenges of Metadata and Process Documentation (Michael Dayresearch and development team at UKOLN [more]
- 14:00 - 17:30: Workflow and Workflow Modelling (Stephan Heuscher, iKeep AG, Digital Archives Services) [more]
Wednesday, 8 June 2005
- 9:00 - 12:30: Identifying, Evaluating and Selecting Preservation Methods: An Introduction to the DELOS Testbed and Utility Analysis (Hans Hofman is co-director of ERPANET and senior advisor at the Nationaal Archief (National Archives) of the Netherlands & Andreas Rauber, Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology) [more]
- 14:00 - 17:30: Managing Ingest: Handling, Documenting, and Automating (Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard Head of Development at the State and University Library in Aarhus) [more]
Thursday, 9 June 2005
- 9:00 - 12:30: Role of Registries and Representation Information (David Giaretta is the Associate Director for Development at the UK Digital Curation Centre) [more]
- 14:00 - 17:30: Approaches to Audit and Certification of Repositories and Preservation Processes (Seamus Ross, Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation, and Director HATII (Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute) (http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk), University of Glasgow) & Mariella Guercio, professor in archival science and electronic record management, ISTBAL, Università degli Studi di Urbino). [more]
Friday, 10 June 2005
- 9:00 - 12:30: Methodologies of Selection and Appraisal (Ross Harvey is the inaugural Professor of Library and Information Management at Charles Sturt University's School of Information Studies) [more]
- 14:00 - 17:30: Digital Libraries as Persistent Collections of Autonomous Objects (Manfred Thaller Professor of Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, University of Köln) [more]
Saturday, 11 June 2005 (Morning Only)
- 9:00 - 12:30: Question and Answer Session (Panel: All Lecturers) [more]


