The course aims to develop in participants an appreciation of the issues surrounding digital preservation within the context of information systems, business processes, scientific data management, security and software development. Participants should leave with a coherent and practical understanding of activities surrounding digital preservation and, in particular, a developed understanding of selection and appraisal, workflow modelling, metadata definition, ingest process management, and a working knowledge of the issues surrounding audit and certification of digital repositories. The course raises awareness of sustainability issues and builds sustainability into the process of software development. Moreover, security issues are elaborated in terms of data and software security with respect to long term preservation.

• 15.3.  Introductory Mtg, Basics, Preservation Actions 
• 22.3. Formats, characterisation, unique identifier
• 29.3. Legal Aspects of DP, Authenticity and Provenance
• 19.4. OAIS Standard: reference model , workflows and information model & Trust, Audit and Certification
• 26.4. Preservation planning: Context, Problems, Method, Objective Trees, Plato 
• 3.5. Preservation planning 2, Quality Assurance, Scalability
• 10.5. Emulation, game preservation 
•  24.5. Risk management, IT governance
• 31.5. Software Escrow, Small Scale Archiving
• 14.6. Guest lecture Treventus Mechatronics, current research issues
• 21.6. Exam

ECTS/Effort:

Lectures: 8 sessions @ 2h: 16h

Literature: sci. Papers, Standards, etc.: 28h

Exam Preparation: 30h

Exam: 1h

TOTAL: 75h

nestor-Handbuch: Eine kleine Enzyklopädie der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung: http://nestor.sub.uni-goettingen.de/handbuch/

OAIS Reference Model: http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdfOAIS Reference Model: http://public.ccsds.org/sites/cwe/rids/Lists/CCSDS%206500P11/Attachments/650x0p11.pdf

PADI Beginner's Trail (Link): http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/trails/beginners.html

Data's shameful neglect, Nature 461, 145 (10 September 2009), doi:10.1038/461145a:  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/full/461145a.html

Slides (from 2011, will be updated!):

• Introduction, Vorbesprechung: 01_dp_vorbesprechung.pdf (SS2012)
• Basics: 02_dp_basics.pdf (SS2012)
• File Formats, Characterization and PUID: File formats, Characterisation, PUID
• OAIS Model: 04_dp_OAIS.pdf (SS2012)
• Audit & Zertifizierung: 05_dp_audit-zertifizierung.pdf (SS2012)
• Authenticity and Provenance Slides, Legal Aspects of DP Slides
• Preservation planning 1: Preservation planning
• Preservation planning revisited, Quality Assurance, Monitoring: Preservation planning 2
• 8: Emulation/Preserving Interactivity: Emulation
• 9: Governance, Risk, Compliance and DP: GRC 
• 10: Software Escrow, Small Scale Archiving