This workshop focuses on presenting the current state-of-the-art relational database preservation standards and tools used by major national archives and other institutions.
It presents SIARD 2, a new preservation format for relational databases. It also presents the current tools for harvesting information from live database management systems into SIARD format and back, namely SIARD Suite and the Database Preservation Toolkit. Furthermore, two tools to access and view the information preserved in SIARD-files are presented: the E-ARK database viewer and SIARDexcerpt.
The workshop includes live demonstration of the tools and prompts the participants to use them on their own laptops using the demonstration databases provided. This workshop closely relates to a tutorial on relational database preservation guidelines and use cases, that focuses on the operational concerns of database preservation and relevant real-world use cases.

This tutorial will provide participants with an introduction to the PREMIS Data Dictionary. It will give a basic overview of the standard and explore different models of implementation.

Fedora is a flexible, extensible, open source repository platform for managing, preserving, and providing access to digital content. Fedora is used in a wide variety of institutions including libraries, museums, archives, and government organizations. Fedora 4 introduces native linked data capabilities and a modular architecture based on welldocumented APIs and ease of integration with existing applications. Both new and existing Fedora users will be interested in learning about and experiencing Fedora 4 features and functionality first-hand.
Attendees will be given pre-configured virtual machines that include Fedora 4 bundled with the Solr search application and a triplestore that they can install on their laptops and continue using after the workshop. These virtual machines will be used to participate in hands-on exercises that will give attendees a chance to experience Fedora 4 by following step-by-step instructions. Participants will learn how to create and manage content in Fedora 4 in accordance with linked data best practices. Finally, participants will learn how to search and run SPARQL queries against content in Fedora using the included Solr index and triplestore.

This is an introductory level tutorial. The goals of the tutorial
are: to explain what persistent identifiers are and why they are
so important; to discuss what the criteria are for trustworthy
identifier systems; to introduce a decision tree tool that helps
determine which system is the most appropriate for a particular
set of needs; and to share case studies that are relevant to the
Digital Preservation community.

In this hands on workshop we will address the tools, models and process used when building the business case for data management services including those relating to, research data, preservation, curation, discovery and access. We examine and test the use of existing tools with real world institutional problems and potential future tools/services.

This workshop will address the topic of sustained access to digital content by providing a legal framework and a technical platform for hosting and distributing functional legacy software. Both aspects represent key areas of the UNESCO PERSIST Programme that will focus on the preservation of the digital heritage under the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
The objective of the workshop is to engage Digital Preservation Practitioners, Memory Organizations, the ICT industry and policy makers in the discussion of use cases for the international platforms of legacy software services, e.g., applications to preserving increasingly complex digital objects, engagement models among the stakeholders that would lead to revenue streams and economically sustainable services, and legal frameworks that ensure flexible use of legacy software in the far future, e.g., policies to guide life-cycle management of critical software and ‘fair use of software’ beyond its market lifespan.

Many cultural heritage institutions with digital collections have performed assessments of file formats to inform decision making for a wide range of activities. The development of digitization standards and transfer requirements for depositors, the selection of storage and access platforms, and preservation planning and the decisions to use emulation or migration as a preservation approach all benefit from the assessment of file formats for their appropriateness in these different contexts. This workshop will bring together several institutions who have created format assessments, together with institutions who already are or could potentially reuse this work to inform their own institutional policies and preservation planning. The workshop will start with short presentations to expose the assessment work that has been done, followed by a discussion of how they are being used, or could be used, and possibilities for more effectively sharing these resources across institutions for the benefit of the digital preservation community.

This tutorial focuses on the practical problems in ingesting, preserving and reusing content maintained in relational databases. The tutorial is based on practical experiences from European national archives and provides an outlook into the future of database preservation based on the work undertaken in collaboration by the EC-funded E-ARK project and the Swiss Federal Archives.

This workshop provides an overview of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, a standard addressing the information you need to know to preserve digital content in a repository. It includes an update on current PREMIS initiatives and reports from the preservation community on implementation of the standard in various systems or contexts.

This tutorial will prepare participants to use the open-source BitCurator environment and BitCurator Access Webtools to acquire, process and provide access to born-digital materials. There will be a brief lecture and discussion that focuses on the motivation for using the tools and several foundational technical concepts. The remainder of the tutorial will be devoted to demonstration and hands-on exercises that feature specific tools and methods. Participants will learn how to mount media as read-only, create disk images, mount forensically packaged disk images, export individual files or entire directories from disk images, use specialized scripts to perform batch activities, generate and interpret Digital Forensics XML (DFXML), generate a variety of standard and customized reports (including PREMIS records), identify various forms of sensitive data within collections, and provide browser-based search and navigation of files and folders.

This workshop is a follow up to the Tutorial on Persistent Identifiers. The goal of the workshop is to discuss in detail key current issues and recent developments in persistent identifiers that are interesting for the Digital Preservation community. This workshop deals directly with new initiatives and capabilities of persistent identifiers.

There is an increasingly urgent need to ensure the fullest possible preservation of research findings, both for proper validation of the research in question and to enable its comprehensive reuse. Furthermore, research undertakings are expensive and the return on investment needs to be secured by research funding agencies and public funding bodies through proper management of the knowledge that is required for the effective long-term reuse of results. Awareness of these facts leads to increasingly stringent regulations from funding agencies, which seek to enforce compliance of research data with specific policies. Hence, funding agencies are beginning to make Data Management Plans (DMP) increasingly mandatory before they will fund a research undertaking. In general, a DMP is a full text document that elaborates how the research data is handled, both during and after the project lifetime. In fact, a DMP includes policies for data management on different levels, as e.g. required by a formal framework the research has to comply with, as well as managerial parameters or policies that directly address the data management system level. Nevertheless, besides the pure establishment of policies, funders and researchers have further requirements concerning active aspects of data management, as e.g.: the continuous adoption of DMPs and its execution throughout the research lifecycle or to preserve the knowledge created during research that is needed for comprehensive later research validation. Because of the complexity of these and further requirements, management support is under discussion in various research communities. Within the international Research Data Alliance, these aspects are discussed within the so called Active DMP Interest Group.

This workshop will consider recent research and the outcomes of the next RDA ADMP IG workshop at Cern to discuss ADMP related topics and will address further open research questions around ADMPs, with a special focus on continuous adoption of DMPs and automation support. Hence, the aim of this workshop is to identify on base of submitted contributions and the conclusion of the discussion during the workshop the recent obstacles that prevent the realization of ADMPs and how those could be addressed. The outcome of this workshop will be the preparation of a roadmap towards a reference framework of ADMP management and automation.