
This course equips digital preservation professionals with a range of skills relating to various aspects of receiving, handling, and managing digital content. Participants will learn about key digital preservation concepts, how to prepare digital materials for preservation, to approach workflow development for digital preservation and will learn about current tools for working with digital materials.
The course is structured around five core modules:
1. Digital preservation concepts and workflows
2. File format identification and characterisation
3. Quick start to the command line
4. Metadata and digital preservation
5. Packaging digital materials for ingest or transfer