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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rebecca McGuinness</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rebecca@openplanetsfoundation.org">rebecca@openplanetsfoundation.org</a>></span><br>
Date: 22 January 2014 15:51<br>Subject: [WEB4LIB] SCAPE Project Training: Preserving Your Preservation Tools, 26-27 March, The Hague<br>To: <a href="mailto:WEB4LIB@listserv.nd.edu">WEB4LIB@listserv.nd.edu</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">* Apologies for cross-posting *</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b><br>
</b></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b>SCAPE Training: Preserving Your Preservation Tools</b><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>(Package Management)</b></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>26-27 March 2014</b></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>The Hague</b></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><br>
</b></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Registration is now open for the next SCAPE Project Training event: <a href="https://scape-preserving-tools.eventbrite.co.uk" target="_blank">https://scape-preserving-tools.eventbrite.co.uk</a>.</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Overview</b></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Learning to Think Like a Package Maintainer</b></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Lots of great digital preservation applications and services exist, however very few are actively maintained and thus preserved! This is a big problem! By introducing the steps to develop these and engage the support of the community, this training course addresses what can be done to improve this situation. You will learn how to prepare packages for submission into the very heart of many digital environments; the operating system and directly associated “app-stores”. Attendees will be given hands-on experience with developing and maintaining packages rather than software and key differences will be discussed and evaluated. Better preservation of preservation tools, means better preservation our digital history.</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Learning Outcomes</b> (by the end of the training event the attendees will be able to):</font></div>
<div><ol><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Understand the complexities of package management and distinguish between the different practices relating to both package objectives and chosen programming language. </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Be able to carry out advanced package management operations in order to critically appraise current packages and propose changes. </span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Understand the importance of clearly defined versioning and licenses and the role of clear documentation and examples. </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Apply best practice techniques in order to create a simple package suitable for long term maintenance. </span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Evaluate a number of options for managing package configuration and behaviour relating to package installation, removal, upgrade and re-installation. </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Analyse opportunities for automating package management and releases, maintaining a clear focus on the user and not the developer. </span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Critically evaluate opportunities to generalise package management to allow the easy building and maintenance of packages on multiple platforms.</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Assess the potential to apply package management techniques in your own environment.</span><br></li></ol></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Agenda</b></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The agenda is available here: <a href="http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Agenda+-+Preserving+Your+Preservation+Tools" target="_blank">http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Agenda+-+Preserving+Your+Preservation+Tools</a></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The event will be conducted in English.</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Who should attend?</b></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Software and tool developers, system administrators</font></div><div><ul><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">No digital preservation knowledge required</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Learn how to make your software sustainable so it is easily distributed, installed, and used</span><br></li></ul></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Further information</b></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Travel and accommodation advice can be found on the event wiki page: <a href="http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/SCAPE+Training+Event+-+Preserving+Your+Preservation+Tools" target="_blank">http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/SCAPE+Training+Event+-+Preserving+Your+Preservation+Tools</a>. <b><i>Please note there is another major conference taking place in The Hague at the same time - we advise booking accommodation ASAP.</i></b></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">To find out more about the SCAPE Project visit: <a href="http://www.scape-project.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.scape-project.eu/</a>.</font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b><u>Save the date!</u> SCAPE & OPF Executive Seminar: Managing Digital Preservation, 25 March, The Hague. Registration opening soon.</b></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Kind Regards,</font></div></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#666666">Rebecca McGuinness</font><div>
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#666666">Membership and Communications Manager</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#666666">Open Planets Foundation</font></b></div>
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