1. Digital Preservation Tools for Repository Managers A practical course in five parts presented by the KeepIt project in association with Module 3, Primer on preservation workflow, formats and characterisation Westminster-Kingsway College, London, 2 March 2010 Twitter hashtag #dprc (digital preservation repository course)

2. Course structure Module 1. Organisational issues Scoping, selection, assessment, institutional parameters (19 January) Module 2. Costs Lifecycle costs for managing digital objects, based on the LIFE approach, and institutional costs (5 February) Module 3. Description Describing content for preservation: provenance, significant properties and preservation metadata (TODAY) Module 4. Preservation workflow tools available in EPrints for format management, risk assessment and storage, and linked to the Plato planning tool from Planets (17-18 March) Module 5. Trust (by others) of the repository’s approach to preservation; trust (by the repository) of the tools and services it chooses (30th March)

3. A slight change in emphasis Primer on preservation workflow, formats and characterisation Controlling format risk Identifying significant characteristics Description: – Provenance – Preservation metadata

4. A bigger change in emphasis Primer on preservation workflow, formats and characterisation Controlling format risk Identifying significant properties Description: – Provenance – Preservation metadata

5. Tools today Significant characteristics, Stephen Grace and Gareth Knight, King’s College London PREMIS, Open Provenance Model