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 |
