DELOS Summer School 2006
The DELOS Network of Excellence is pleased to announce its summer school programme on 'Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries: Emerging Approaches'. 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 (www.delos.info). The school is sponsored by:
- Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Milan)
- Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale (Florence)
Participation in the School will assist participants in understanding how to address digital preservation challenges in the context of the digital library. The workshop will provide a networking opportunity for participants to meet with other students and researchers, international experts, and practitioners across disciplinary and national boundaries.
The school will take place at Centro Studi "I Cappuccini", San Miniato (IT) during the week beginning 4 June 2006. 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 learning outcomes for the course as a whole appear at the bottom of this document.
Online Registration Form
UPDATE 31st May 2006: Registration is now closed.
Course Timetable
Full details of lectures and biographical sketches of the lecturers are now available.
Sunday, 4 June 2006
18:30: Overview of the Summer School and Introduction to the Lecturers
19:30: Opening Reception at San Miniato
Monday, 5 June 2006
9:00 - 12:45: Digital Curation in Digital Libraries: Issues, Obstacles, and Possibilities (Hieke Neuroth, Research & Development & DINI secretary Goettingen State and University Library (SUB))
14:00 - 17:30: Unpacking The OAIS Model (David Giaretta, Associate Director for Development at the UK Digital Curation Centre)
Tuesday, 6 June 2006
9:00 - 12:45: Creating and Using Metadata and Registries (Wendy Duff, Professor in Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto)
14:00 - 17:30: Identifying, Evaluating and Selecting Preservation Methods: An Introduction to the DELOS Testbed and Utility Analysis (Hans Hofman, senior advisor at the Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands and Andreas Rauber, Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the Vienna University of Technology)
Wednesday, 7 June 2006
9:00 - 12:45: Approaches to Preservation (Michael Day, UKOLN and Andrew Wilson, Arts and Humanities Data Service)
14:00 - 17:30: 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)
Thursday, 8 June 2006
9:00 - 12:45: Managing Ingest: Handling, Documenting, and Automating (Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Head of Development at the State and University Library in Aarhus)
14:00 - 17:30: Active Ingest: Metadata Extraction, Creation, and Workflow (Yunhyong Kim, Digital Curation Centre Researcher, HATII University of Glasgow & Seamus Ross, Professor of Humanities Informatics and Digital Curation, and Director HATII)
Friday, 9 June 2006
9:00 - 12:45: Preserving for 2016, 2116, 3016. Or: "Is there a life for an object outside a digital library?" (Manfred Thaller Professor of Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Informationsverarbeitung, University of Köln)
14:00 - 17:30: Audit and Certification of Preservation Processes and Repositories (Andrew McHugh, Audit and Certification Manager, Digital Curation Centre (DCC).
(All morning and afternoon session timings include 30 minutes for coffee or tea breaks.)
Venue
The venue for the Summer School is a 15th century monastery set in the Tuscan Hills. The lecture rooms and breakout meeting facilities are world-class. Those who select accommodation onsite will find the accommodation is pleasant and the food rich in local flavour. San Miniato, a town with a history stretching back to at least the Etruscan period, is about 1.5 kilometres walk away across Tuscan hills dappled with olive trees and vines.
How to Get There
San Miniato is easily reached from Pisa or Florence. From either town take a train to Empoli Station and catch a bus or taxi from there to the Centro Studi "I Cappuccini", San Miniato.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the Summer School, students 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;
- become familiar with the OAIS model and gained a knowledge of the approaches to repository design and deployment;
- a working knowledge of the issues surrounding audit and certification of digital repositories;
- a 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; and
- considered how digital curation and preservation requirements can be integrated into approaches to digital library development.
Course Fees
Full registration fee is 1100 Euros and includes Reception Sunday evening (4 June), Wine tasting (6 June), Summer School Dinner (8 June), coffee and tea in the morning and afternoon, pre-course reader, and course materials. The full registration fee also includes accommodation in the Centre "I Cappuccini" (single room with bath and air conditioning), and full board starting with the dinner of the 4th of June and ending with the breakfast of Saturday the 10th of June.
School (Tuition) only registration is 500 Euros and includes all of the above, except accommodation and meals.
For university students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers a limited number of partial bursaries is available. A letter of recommendation from the University or the research organization is required. The number of bursaries is limited and will be granted under a first come, first served policy.
Your registration will not become final until we receive payment. Payment can be made by credit card, bank transfer or money order, banker's draft or international cheque (see notes on payment methods).
The DELOS summer school is sponsored by the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC).
Further Information
If you have any further queries or require additional information, please contact:
Dr Seamus Ross (s.ross@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk)