PTAB Modules for 4 day course

Program overview

Day # Description Rationale
1 1 Introduction Introduction - this presentation
2 Types of digital objects and threats Understand why a repository has to do anything about digital preservation
3a OAIS part 1 The fundamental concepts of digital preservation
Quiz about material covered in day 1
2 3b OAIS part 2 The fundamental concepts of digital preservation
4 Outline of Auditing An initial look at what an audit does
Quiz about material covered in day 2
3 5 Basic preservation techniques Then the basic preservation techniques
6 Archival Information Packages The AIP has in principle everything needed for long term preservation of a digital object
7 Organisational Infrastructure Now we have an understanding of digital preservation we can a first look at the infrastructure needed
8 Infrastructure and Security Risk Management One important issue is security - make sure we don't lose the bits!
Quiz about material covered in day 3
4 9 Ingest We understand what we need for preservation - the AIP - then we can see how this information must come into the repository
10 Access The other side of ingest is ACCESS - how can the information be found and supplied
11 Audit process Having understood all these aspects of preservation - we can look further at the audit process
12 Audit planning ...and how to plan it
13 Audit team ...and the team needed to do it
14 Repository capacity Then we can look again at ways the capabilities of the repository can be evaluated
15 Sustainability Of course the repository must be sustainable - not necessarily forever - but "long enough"
16 Audit report Finally a quick look at the audit report
Quiz about material covered in day 4