Digital Preservation: Ensuring Long-term access to digital objects. The course aimes to develop in participants an appreciation of the issues surrounding digital preservation within the context of digital library development and management and to develop their grasp of the core research in the area of digital curation and preservation. 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 and the techniques and practices that underlie digital curation. within the exercises, practical examples of digital Preservation scenarios and solutions using the conceptual models presented in the lectures will be elaborated.

Will also be offered in cooperation with the DELOS Summer School on Digital Preservation (dates to be announced) or the NESTOR Summer School Digitale Langzeitarchivierung (June 16-20 2008, Staufen, BRD) First Meeting: tba

Ort: zur Gruppe über TISS, Gruppenabwicklung über TUWEL

UNESCO Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage (PDF): http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001300/130071e.pdf OAIS Reference Model (PDF): http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf PADI Beginner's Trail (Website): http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/trails/beginners.html

Basics of information theory, theory of codes and programming