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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
Anytime DPE Digital Preservation Video Training Online Not Applicable Free
Anytime Using and Understanding PDF/A as a Preservation FormatĀ  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 Protecting Future Access Now: Models for Preserving Digitized Books and Other Content at Cultural Heritage Organizations Online Not Applicable Free
Anytime Digital Preservation: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts Online Not Applicable $50 or less
02/12/13 iConference 2013: Scholarship in Action Conference with Workshops The Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel, Fort Worth $325-560
02/21/13 Personal Digital Archiving 2013 Conference with Workshops University of Maryland, College Park $125-225
03/04/13 Arrangement and Description of Electronic Records, Part I and II #1356 Training Workshop University of Texas at Arlington $285-415
03/07/2013 Digital Repositories #1353 Training Workshop Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA
$189-289
03/08/2013 Digital Repositories #1354 Training Workshop Seattle Municipal Tower, Seattle WA $189-289
03/06/2013 IMLS's WebWise Conference 2013 Conference with workshops Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace in Baltimore, MD $50
03/11/2013 Inreach and Outreach for Digital Archives Training workshop Elliott University Center
Greensboro, NC
$185-285
03/12/2013 Copyright Issues for Digital Archives Training workshop Elliott University Center
Greensboro, NC
$185-285
03/15/2013 Achieving Email Account Preservation with XML Training workshop Weber State University
Ogden, UT
$189-289
03/17/2013 Curate Thyself: Defining and Cultivating an Academic Trajectory in Digital Curation Symposium University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
See Website
03/21/2013 Digital Forensics for Archivists #1365 Training workshop Worcester, MA
$185-285
03/29/2013 Digital Curation: Creating an Environment for Success #1361 Training workshop Fairfax, VA
$185-285
03/30/2013 Basics of Managing Electronic Records: Getting You Started (ends March 30th) Webinar Online
$145-175
04/02/2013 Society for Imaging Science and Technology's Archiving Conference Conference Washington, DC $25-105
04/04/2013 Research Data Access & Preservation Summit 2013 Conference Baltimore $270-400
04/08/2013 Arrangement and Description of Electronic Records, Part I and II Training Workshop Cheney, WA $185-235
04/11/2013 Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Digital Archives #1355 Training Workshop Berkeley, CA $185-235
04/22/2013 International Internet Preservation Consortium's General Assembly 2013 Conference with Workshops Ljubljana, Slovenia See website
05/06/2013 Appraisal of Electronic Records #1337 Training Workshop Minneapolis, MN $185-235
05/06/2013 A Beginner's Guide to Metadata (ends May 6th) Webinar Online $145-175
05/10/2013 Managing Electronic Records in Archives and Special Collections #1364 Training Workshop Salt Lake City, UT $185-235
05/06/2013 Framing the digital curation curriculum: International Conference Conference with workshops Florence, Italy Free
05/22/2013 Developing Specifications and RFPs for Recordkeeping Systems #1358 Training Workshop Austin, TX $185-285
05/12/2013 DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices Institute University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $1,150-1,300
06/18/2013 Inreach and Outreach for Digital Archives Workshop Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
$185-285
07/10/2013 Born-Digital Materials: Theory & Practice Training Course University of Virginia $1095-1195
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
07/23/2013 Digital Preservation 2013 Annual meeting Washington, DC TBD
07/22/2013 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2013 Annual Conference and Workshops Indianapolis, Indiana See Website
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
08/30/2013 Thinking Digital...A Practical Session to Help You Get Started (ends August 30th) Webinar Not Applicable $145-175
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
12/31/2013 Archival Content Management Systems (ends December 31st) Webinar Online $145-175

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