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Training Opportunities

The Library of Congress provides this calendar as a public service to help people access training in the practice of digital preservation. Providers have been asked to designate their educational offerings by level (beginner, intermediate, or advanced) and intended audience (executive, managerial, or practical). You can sort by date, course title, course format, location, and cost. To find out more about an offering, click on its title.

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Start Date Course Course Format Location Cost Range
05/14/2013 Digitization for Small Institutions Training Workshop Online $180
05/17/2013 Digital Cultural Heritage Symposium Symposium Brooklyn, New York Free
05/20/2013 Digital Preservation Training Programme Training Workshop University of London £780
05/21/2013 Introduction to Preservation Metadata Training Workshop Online $130
05/22/2013 Developing Specifications and RFPs for Recordkeeping Systems #1358 Training Workshop Austin, TX $185-285
05/29/2013 American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works 41st Annual Meeting Annual Conference Indianapolis, Indiana $155-480
05/30/2013 Storing and Protecting Digital Content over Time Training Workshop Springfield, Illnois Free
06/03/2013 Hackathon: Tackling Real-World Collection Challenges with Digital Forensics Tools and Methods Hackathon Chapel Hill, North Carolina $300
06/04/2013 Minnesota Digital Library 11th Annual Meeting Annual Meeting St. Paul, Minnesota $25
06/05/2013 Metadata for Preservation Training Workshop Online $170
06/06/2013 Getting Started in Digital Preservation 2013 Training Workshop DRWM, National Library of Wales £20
06/06/2013 Grant Writing for Digitization and Preservation Projects Training Workshop Online $180
06/09/2013 MIT Libraries Digital Preservation Management Workshops Training Workshop Cambridge, Massachusettes $1,001-$1,500
06/10/2013 FRAME, Future for Restoration of Audiovisual Memory in Europe Training Workshop Bry-sur-Marne, France 1000 EUR
06/13/2013 Advanced Preservation Metadata: How to Make it Happen Training Workshop Online $180
06/18/2013 Inreach and Outreach for Digital Archives Workshop Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
$185-285
06/18/2013 Caring for Scrapbooks: Preservation and Digitization Today Training Workshop Online $120
06/19/2013 Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums Workshop National Library and Archives of Québec
Montréal
$75
06/20/2013 Introduction to Linked Data for Libraries Training Workshop Online $130
06/24/2013 Digital Humanities Data Curation Institutes Workshop: Summer 2013 Workshop University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign See Website
06/28/2013 Accessioning and Ingest of Electronic Records #1368 Training Course Brigham Young University $185-285
Start Date Course Course Format Location Cost Range
07/10/2013 Born-Digital Materials: Theory & Practice Training Course University of Virginia $1095-1195
07/16/2013 Digital Humanities 2013 Conference Lincoln, Nebraska $225-500
07/17/2013 XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts Training Course University of Virginia $1095-1195
07/17/2013 Digitizing the Historical Record Training Course University of Virginia $1095-1195
07/21/2013 Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections Conference with workshops Ann Arbor, Michigan $499-550
07/22/2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2013 Annual Conference and Workshops Indianapolis, Indiana See Website
07/22/2013 1st International Workshop on the Digital Preservation of Research Methods and Artefacts (DPRMA 2013) Annual Conference and Workshops Indianapolis, Indiana (Co-Located with JCDL) See Website
07/26/2013 Curate Camp at JCDL 2013 Unconference Indianapolis, Indiana (Co-Located with JCDL) See Website
07/28/2013 The 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference Annual Conference and Workshops Dublin, Ireland TBD
07/29/2013 Curating and Managing Research Data for Re-Use Workshop Ann Arbor, Michigan $1001 - 1,500
07/31/2013 Connecting to Collections Preservation Boot Camp Training Workshop Worthington, Ohio TBD
08/30/2013 Thinking Digital...A Practical Session to Help You Get Started (ends August 30th) Webinar Not Applicable $145-175
09/02/2013 iPres and Dublin Core 2013 Joint Annual Conference Lisbon, Portugal See Website
09/19/2013 Digital Scholarship Co-Operative's Digital Frontiers Conference with Workshops TBD TBD
09/20/2013 Digital Preservation Workshop on Computer Science Day Conference with Workshops Koblenz,
Germany
See Website
09/22/2013 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Conference with Workshops Valletta,
Malta
See Website
09/26/2013 Cultural Heritage Archives: Networks, Innovation & Collaboration Conference with Workshops Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.
TBD
10/04/2013 Getting Started in Digital Preservation 2013 (Glasgow) Training Workshop Glasgow University
£20
10/28/2013 Digital Curation: Creating an Environment for Success Workshop Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
$185-285
11/01/2013 Preserving Digital Archives: Concepts and Competencies Workshop Briscoe Library
San Antonio, TX
$185-285
11/3/2013 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum Annual Conference Austin,
Texas
TBD
11/6/2013 AMIA Annual Conference 2013 Annual Conference The Marriott Richmond
Richmond, VA
TBD
11/6/2013 INFuture 2013 Annual Conference Zagreb
Croatia
75-350 Euros
11/18/2013 Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II Conference National Library of Catalonia
Barcelona, Spain
See Website
12/09/2013 Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Digital Archives #1406 Training Workshop Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
$185-285
12/31/2013 Archival Content Management Systems (ends December 31st) Webinar Online $145-175
Start Date Course Course Format Location Cost Range
Anytime DPE Digital Preservation Video Training Online Not Applicable Free
Anytime Using and Understanding PDF/A as a Preservation Format  Online Not Applicable $145-175
Anytime Standards for Digital Archives Online Not Applicable $145-175
Anytime Electronic Records, The Next Step! Online Not Applicable $145-175
Anytime Information Architecture Online Not Applicable $145-175
Anytime (PASIG) Boot-Camp Webinar Online Not Applicable $20 or less
Anytime Digital Preservation: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts Online Not Applicable $50 or less
Anytime Metadata Interoperability Online Not Applicable $39
Anytime NCDCR Digital Preservation Education Videos, Tutorials and Webinars Online Not Applicable Free