The Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Digital Preservation Europe
(DPE), Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research
(DRIVER), and Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital
Resources (nestor) are delighted to announce that they will be
delivering a joint workshop on the long-term curation of scientific and
scholarly digital repository content. This event will be held over one
and a half days at the Campus Adlershof, Humboldt University in Berlin
on 27-28 November 2007. This event is being organised as a follow-up to
the 2005 DCC workshop on long-term curation within digital repositories
which was held in Cambridge, UK.
Scientific and scholarly content such as articles and data are
increasingly deposited in institutional and subject-based repositories.
These developments pose practical, conceptual and organisational
challenges for accessing these contents now and in a future-proof
manner. The long-term survival, value and usability of the information
stored within digital repositories depends on numerous criteria such as
the formats selected for storage, the capture of associated metadata,
proactive preservation measures, and the perceived trust in the
repository itself. This workshop will highlight current practices and
shall provide insights into current initiatives and technical systems
being developed.
