JISC Digitisation Programme

14-15 September 2009
Holiday Inn, Belfast, Northern Ireland
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/capacity-building-belfast-2009

The Joint Systems Information Committee (JISC) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in co-operation with the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are delighted to announce that we will deliver a joint two-day workshop in Belfast to help to establish more effective digital curation and preservation networks of support across the UK and between domains of public sector activity.

In particular, this workshop will explore:

“the current capacity of small and medium-sized organisations (including universities) to effectively undertake long-term preservation of digital materials

“how the mixture of organisations and support agencies in the area of digital preservation and curation can best work together, and how they relate to international initiatives

“recent and emerging technical developments in the curation and preservation field

The workshop will provide a mixture of presentations, breakout sessions and practical exercises and aims to:

“inform the ongoing refinement of the content and objectives of training and professional development courses for the widest possible audience.

“establish requirements for curation and preservation support, advice, and guidance for various domains from both a local and UK wide perspective.

To this end, the workshop will provide half-day taster courses for both Digital Curation 101 (DC 101) and Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) courses.

Benefits of participation will include:
Participation in this workshop will provide registrants with an opportunity to establish peer support networks to share their concerns, experiences, and approaches both with colleagues from Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK for digital curation and preservation activity within their institutions. The workshop will also enable participants to help inform the development of future training and professional development courses to ensure that they are fit for purpose.

Following this event, a short report will be drafted offering:

“Recommendations for improved local and UK-wide communications and interactions between a range of support networks and public sector institutions;

“A summary of local and UK-wide training and professional development requirements as gathered from the workshop participants.

“A set of recommendations from a local and UK-wide perspective to inform the future development of digital curation and preservation training courses.

The venue:

The workshop will be held at the Holiday Inn, Belfast. If required, accommodation will be provided on-site for participants for the nights of September 13th and 14th 2009.

Holiday Inn
22 Ormeau Avenue
Belfast
BT2 8HS

For directions to the venue, please see the website.

Registration:
Registration is open to participants from the university; schools; library; cultural heritage; local government; health; public broadcasting sectors. Preference will be given to participants from Northern Ireland but will also be open to eligible registrants from the rest of the UK and from the Republic of Ireland. Registration is free and participation is limited to 40 participants.

To register for this event, please complete the online form.

The Strategic Content Alliance has just announced aseries of workshops across the UK that will look at the digital content lifecycle from creation to curation.

Details of the workshops can be found below, with further information on the Strategic Content Alliance’s blog.

These FREE workshops from the Strategic Content Alliance and Netskills introduce simple and inexpensive search engine optimisation  techniques to improve your online presence, web visibility and website traffic.

Topics include:

• Maximising access and removing barriers to your content
• The importance of a structured approach to preparing content
• Content integrity and reaching the right audience
• Metadata and its significance
• Sustainable content and future proofing
• The social web and marketing

The workshops are aimed primarily at delegates from universities, archives, museums, health, public service broadcasting, schools and cultural heritage. No particular technical knowledge is required as a prerequisite.

Dates, locations and registration

Belfast
10:30 Monday 29 June – 15:30 Tuesday 30 June 2009
The Mount Conference Centre – register for this workshop

Edinburgh
09:30 Thursday 2 July – 16:15 Friday 3 July 2009
Grosvenor Hilton Hotel – register for this workshop

London
09:30 Monday 27 July – 16:15 Tuesday 28 July 2009
JISC Meeting Rooms, Brettenham House – register for this workshop

Cardiff
09:30 Thursday 30 July – 16:15 Friday 31 July 2009
Hilton Hotel – register for this workshop

“Improving your online presence” is a FREE 3-day course held in London aimed at showing how simple and inexpensive techniques can be used to boast your collection’s web visibility and consequently traffic to your website.

The course is organised by the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and builds on highly successful courses in Canada resulting in improving professional practice and increased traffic to attendee’s websites. Delegates from university archives and museums, health, public service broadcasting, schools and cultural heritage are particularly welcome to attend.

The course will consist of three strands:

An introduction to search engine marketing – 9th February;
Writing for the web – 10th February;
Community building and web analytics – 11th February.

It is strongly recommended that delegates attend all three days in order to get the maximum benefit. Places are strictly limited on a first come first serve basis. To register please use the online form at http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/scaseocourse/

Date: 9th-11th February 2009

Location: Woburn House Conference Centre, 20 Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9HQ

Timetable

9th February 10.30 Registration – 11.00 start – 15.30 close
10th February 10.30 start – 15.30 close
11th February 10.30 start – 15.30 close

A buffet lunch and light refreshments will be provided over the three days.

Accommodation

The organisers have negotiated a preferential room rate of £130 instead of the usual £250 per night (room only) for superior rooms at the Novotel – Euston (Four Star) (see attachment for hotel information). Executive rooms are on the higher floors of the hotel with a King sized bed and Wi-Fi Internet access. Executive rooms are also available at £30 per night supplement.

If you wish to take advantage of this special reduced rate please indicate this on your online registration, which must reach us by 12:30pm, Monday 12th January.

Please note that the hotel will contact you after this date to take full amount of stay – i.e. payable in advance (at booking time) by credit card, the full deposit is not refundable even if the booking is cancelled or modified. This will not be reimbursed by the Strategic Content Alliance or the Canadian Heritage Information Network. You are, of course, at liberty to stay at any hotel in London.

An e-Content Policy and Strategy Symposium has been organised to precede the two-day JISC digitisation conference. It will take place on July 18 2007 and aims to bring together key figures in the field of digitisation and content to discuss policy, business models, economics, technical infrastructure and collaboration and to discuss ways to promote innovation in these respective areas.

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