Agenda - Effective, Evidence-Based Preservation Planning

Learning Outcomes (by the end of the session the attendees will be able to:

1. Understand the SCAPE Planning and Watch lifecycle, and the benefits and opportunities.
2. Explain why a policy framework is important in successful preservation planning.
3. Evaluate when and how to execute preservation planning.
4. Apply preservation policy to a planning scenario.
5. Carry out content profiling experiments.
6. Analyse content profile results.
7. Understand how to monitor your repository and its environment
8. Create a preservation plan.
9. Envisage how the SCAPE components can be applied to your own collection.

Agenda: 

Wednesday 13 November

Time	Session	Facilitator	Learning outcomes
09.15 - 09.30	Registration and coffee
09.30 - 09.45	Welcome and housekeeping	SB
09.45 - 10.30	Introduction to SCAPE Preservation Planning and Watch What is Planning and Watch? Why plan? What are the key considerations? What is the SCAPE doing in this area? What will we show in the training event?	Kresimir Duretec, TU Wien	1, 3
10.30 - 11.00	Policy levels and control policies: from missions to objectives     Human-readable policies  High-level drivers and constraints  Discussion session See slides	Barbara Sierman, KBNL	2
11.00 - 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 - 12.45	Machine readable Policy representation  Introduction to creating control polices  Practical Exercise  Create some control policy statements  Discussion See slides	Catherine Jones, STFC	2, 4
12.45 - 13.45	Lunch
13.45 - 14.30	Content Profiling and C3PO See slides	Artur Kulmukhametov,  TU Wien	5, 6
14.30 - 15.30	Content profiling experiment  Understanding what is in your collection  C3PO tool demo & practical exercise	Artur Kulmukhametov  Kresimir Duretec  Michael Kraxner TU Wien	5, 6
15.30 - 15.45	Coffee break
15.45 - 16.30	C3PO practical exercise continued Discussion and analysis of results	Artur Kulmukhametov  Kresimir Duretec  Michael Kraxner TU Wien	5, 6
16.30 - 17.00	Wrap up	Kresimir Duretec, TU Wien
17.00	Close
19.00	Event dinner at Globen Flakket

Thursday 14 November

Time	Session	Facilitator	Learning outcomes
09.00 - 09.15	Coffee, welcome back and overview of agenda for the day
09.15 - 10.00	Monitoring and Scout	Kresimir Duretec	7
10.00 - 11.00	Monitoring demo  Scout capabilities  Schedule new adaptors  Monitor collections, formats and repositories  Using control policies in Scout	Kresimir Duretec	7
11.00 - 11.15	Coffee
11.15 - 11.45	Discussion What questions would you ask Scout?	Kresimir Duretec	7
11.45 - 12.30	Preservation Planning and Plato	Michael Kraxner	8
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 14.45	Plato demo and exercise  Guided by policies, from a repository through C3PO, Scout, and Plato back to a repository	Michael Kraxner  Kresimir Duretec	8
14.45 - 15.00	Coffee break
15.00 - 15.45	How things fit together and benefits of integration:   methods, tools, interfaces, repositories	Kresimir Duretec	9
15.45 - 16.30	Benchmarking digital preservation: assessment and improvement	Kresimir Duretec Artur Kulmukhametov	9
16.30 - 17.00	Event evaluation and wrap up	All
17.00	Close