The AAOEe is pleased to offer the following in-person workshop on digital preservation. This workshop is meant for individuals or institutions seeking a practical, easily-implemented approach to developing their digital preservation program. Registration is open until March 4.
Getting started with Digital Preservation: a simple way to begin your digital preservation program using (mostly) free tools
This half-day workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of digital preservation good practice and offer concrete, accessible approaches to getting started with digital preservation. Attendees will provide a summary of their current (and/or projected) born-digital and digitised collections.
The workshop will introduce and demonstrate the practical application of digital preservation concepts, including intellectual control, checksums and fixity, file format identification, redundancy, and responsible data storage. We will then review some of the strategies and tools that will help attendees to establish control over their digital heritage material, such as registry templates, MD5Summer (and other checksum software), and DROID and the PRONOM database. Attendees will come away from the workshop ready to create simple workflows to enable process-based digital preservation for their archival collections.
The audience for the workshop includes individuals or institutions seeking a practical, easily implemented approach to developing their digital preservation program.
Format: Presentation, handout (furnished prior to event), examples, discussion.
When: March 6, 2024, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location: City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K2G 6J9
Cost: AAO members / Students - $25 ; Non-members - $40
Note: If you require support to attend this workshop, please contact the AAOEe at aaoeast@gmail.com
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/getting-started-with-digital-preservation-workshop-tickets-823863145847
A minimum of 8 participants and a maximum of 17 participants may register for this event. Please note that this workshop requires a minimum of 8 participants to have registered by March 1, 2024.
About the Instructors:
Emily Monks-Leeson is a digital archivist with the Digital Integration section of Library and Archives Canada (LAC), where she is engaged in technical appraisal, capacity-building and program development for LAC's digital preservation program. Emily has facilitated preservation and access in digital and analogue collections for over a decade, including curating web collections for LAC's Web and Social Media Preservation Program, generating pathfinder tools for online content development, and supporting archival collections-building at a national museum. She holds a Master's degree from the University of Toronto (Archives; Book History and Print Culture) and currently sits on the iPres 2024 Program Committee, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Workforce Development sub-committee, and the AAO's Digital Access and Preservation Committee.
Kevin Palendat is a digital preservation practitioner and web curator currently working as a Senior Project Manager with Library and Archives Canada’s Web and Social Media Preservation Program. Kevin holds an M.A. in Archival Studies from the University of Manitoba and has served in numerous archival and preservation-oriented roles across Canada and in several global contexts. He maintains an abiding interest in and love for documentary history in all its many guises.
Julienne Pascoe completed her Masters in Film + Photographic Preservation and Collections Management (F+PPCM) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and subsequently worked in a variety of cultural heritage sectors including as a Collections Assistant at the Art Gallery of Ontario and Special Collections researcher at TMU Archives + Special Collections. Her interest in all things digital led her to pursue a Post-Masters Archives Certificate specialization in Digital Stewardship at the Graduate School for Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at Simmons College in Boston. During her studies she taught the graduate course, Digital Applications and Collections Management in the F+PPCM program at TMU, which focused on providing hands-on experience with metadata and digitization projects. Upon completion of her studies, she took on the role of Lead Metadata Architect at Canadiana.org, a position she held for four years before joining Library and Archives Canada (LAC) as a Digital Archivist within the Digital Integration section. She currently participates in a variety of committees and working groups, including as Co-Chair of the Digital Access and Preservation Committee (DAPC) of the AAO, as well as a member of the Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) Committee on Advocacy and Community Engagement (ACE).
