Presentation during World Digital Preservation Day 2018 and International Conference 'Memory Makers' organised by DPC and the Dutch Digital Heritage Network

1. LearningDigitalPreservation
Learning:people, issues, concepts, knowledge, competences andcommunity

2. The community

3. Issues
Ingest
Metadata
ICT
Preservation
software
Information
management
Policies
Staffing
Roles
Professiona-
lisation
Funding
Support
Unique
identifiers
Repository
Risks
Contracts
Obsolence
Rights
File formats
Self
assessment
Advising
the donor
Provenance
Authenticity
Safe
storage
Websites
Email
Awareness

4. The issues and the people
Issues
People
Practitioners
Community
• Knowledge
• Competences
• How to get things done

6. “Practitioners are often looking for best
practices, how-to-guides, roadmaps and
tutorials”.
“On the other hand there is a group of heritage
professionals who don’t know what they don’t
know. They have the need for a completer
picture: where do I start and what do I need?”
“The learning aim is
that after completing
the training the
participants are able
to describe the
relevance of digital
preservation for their
own organization and
their own role, to
recognize challenges
and relate them to
possible solutions”

7. Three moduleblendedlearning
environment
Digital
Preservation
Concepts and
Models
How to?With whom?
Learning
to speak the
language
of digital
preservation
Getting able to
describe and use
the playing field
Learning to make
the first steps

8. Didactic approach/ tools

9. Always image
to the rigth
Assignments lead to interactive learning
A: “RESEARCH THE PROPERTIESOF A DIGITALOBJECT FROM YOUROWNCOLLECTION”
• Leads to insights in, discussion about and peer learningon the risks and the need for measures,
facilities and preservation policy.
• Lays the fundaments for learningon digital preservation.

10. Always image
to the rigth
B: DESCRIBEYOUROWNORGANIZATION/ PLAYING FIELD

11. Always image
to the rigth
C: DO SELF ASSESSMENT,USETOOL,STARTPOLICY

12. Expert sessions: overview
• Persistent Identifiers
• Website archiving
• Webarchaeology
• Self assessment
• Email archiving
• OAIS
• Preservation policy and ‘preservation in place’
• Significant properties

13. Expert sessions: preservation policy
Barbara Sierman
• Identify existing ‘breadcrumbs’ of digital preservation in your organization
• Makethem into stones and seethe wider context of digital preservation policy
• Connect them within the framework of het SCAPEPreservation Elements (and the Dutch
adaptation “Wiki Duurzaamheidsbeleid”)
• Exercise in small groups: appointthe importance ofone policyelement for your organizations
and the relevance in the caseof ‘preservation in place’.
• Onc

14. Expert sessions: email archiving
Gavean elaborate overview of structure/composition, metadata, preservation options and tools, approaches
to appraisal, selection, keepingauthenticity and integrity, and responsibilities for employees, ICTand
preservation officers.

15. Grouptraining exercises
Thepurposeof exercisesistomakestudentsunderstandconceptsbymakingthem experiencethe
issue.
Group exercise ‘Roadmap to a trusted digtital repository’.
Laying out cards on different aspects of a TDR in the ‘right’
order.
In the exercise ‘Significant properties’ students were
asked to work in small groups, giving feedback to
the other students on theoretical concepts on
significant properties from preservation literature in
their own words.

16. Students served:
Group training: 110
Online: 150 +
Concept, design, production, 2016/2017
Pilot training, spring 2017
Launch during Mini symposium, Sept 2017
Leren Preserveren autumn 2017
Leren Preserveren spring 2018
Leren Preserveren autumn 2018
Specials
@ Het Nieuwe Instituut
@ University of Amsterdam (UvA)
@ UvA, Special Collections
for repository specialists RHC’s
Alumni day, sept 2018
Participants from heritage institutes,
donors, education and professional
organizations. Discussion on
education, knowledge platforms,
learning needs, competences and
how to keep up with the fast
changing digital landscape.
More student feedback.
How did things learned land in practice?
How can it contribute to the use of shared facilities?
What is cooperative learning and how can it be used
by students promoting learning in the workplace?
@ group of 4 Archives, prov Noord-
Holland

17. General conclusions
Evaluationsshowthatstudentsappreciate
• The wayonline informationis structuredwithinthemodules, chapters,paragraphsandall the
topicsit covers
• Thecombinationofthe onlinelearningenvironment andthegroup training
• The expertsessions
• How thetrainingconnectsconcepts,methodsandtoolstopratice
Wouldliketosee morefocus
• On thewayconceptsarerelatedtopractice,i.e. throughthemoduleassignmentsandthe
expertsessions
• How grouptrainingexercises andexpertsessions kanstill bettersupportthelearningproces /
morefocuson‘strong’exercises in program
• On issuesthatareimportantwithintheirownpractice,suchas email archiving, preingestetc.

18. What encourages us to go on?
• Whatwereceived backfromstudents
• How westartedandhowwedevelopped as trainersin being capablein
translatingconceptsin applicableknowledgeanddevelopping student’s
competences
• Fourtimes anaverageparticipantratingof8 (outofa maximumof10).
• Involved studentsthatgive clear feedbackandsuggestions onhow to
improveLeren Preserveren
• Requestsforin-companytraining
• LerenPreserveren is playinganimportantrolein thedigital preservation
community
“ I expected that I would
learne about digital
preservation, but I learned a
lot about my own
organization too”.
“Compliments for the very
nice training. It gave me new
insights and I know now
how to begin small and
finish big”.

19. Thechallenge:howto go on
• Using student’sfeedback:howtoimprovetheprogram,morefocus,bettermeeting learning
needs?
• Being awareofourrolein strentheningthedigital heritagecommunity
• Positioning
- Serving theheritagecommunity,i.e. requestsforin-companytraining
- How toservesmall heritageorganizations?Using regional hubs.
- Regularmastersandbachelorarchival enheritagestudies
- Commercial trainingprovidors,whatrolecantheyhave?

20. Credits
Commissionedby:
BehrangMousavi (Het Nieuwe Instituut), Marcel Ras (Dutch DigitalHeritageNetwork)
Educationaldesignandweb design: MarinaNoordegraaf
Thecoaches: Remco van Veenendaal,Marcel Ras, Frans Neggers
Theprojectteamandtheexperts
Carolien vanZuilekom
BarbaraSierman
Robert Gillesse
Joost van der Nat
Margriet vanGorsel
WalterSwagemakers
Arnoud Goos
Theprojectmanager:Frans Neggers