Greater than the sums of our parts?

Collaboration, cooperation and grand challenges in digital preservation

An iPres 2010 workshop of DPC, NCDD, NDIIPP and nestor

Workshop report

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Agenda and Presentations

8:30-9:00	Arrival and Registration
9:00	Welcome
9:05-9:45	DPC, NCDD, NDIIPP and nestor: four different collaborative initiatives: their achievements and challenges DPC: Digital Preservation Coalition (William Kilbride) NCDD: Netherlands Digital Preservation Coalition (Inge Angevaare) NDIIPP: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (Martha Anderson) nestor: Network of Expertise in Digital Preservation (Natascha Schumann)
9:45-10:30	Other participating collaborative initiatives introduce themselves Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale ICPSR and Data-PASS LDP Centre, Sweden  Library and Archives Canada and the Canadian Digital Preservation Landscape OPF: Open Planets Foundation PrestoSpace and PrestoPrime Aligning National Approaches... Conference Announcement
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:20	Interactive discussion between a panel of the organizers and workshop attendees on the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches to collaboration. What are the advantages of national collaboration? And how do these efforts relate to international collaboration? What are the main obstacles to collaboration and how can these be overcome? (Discussion moderated by Martha Anderson)
12:20-12:30	Wrap-up: Conclusion and lessons learned
12:30-13:30	Lunch

Workshop Description