KEEP Training Materials

From here you can download copies of the KEEP training materials presented at our series of International Workshops presented across Europe during 2011/2012. The versions shown here are those used at our workshop held in Cardiff on 24-25 January 2012.

The presentations are in .PDF format. Please feel free to disseminate these amongst colleagues who might have an interest in the use of emulation in Digital Preservation.

Please click on the items below to download the individual files.

Session 1 - Digital Preservation Business As Usual

Speaker Clive Billenness (University of Portsmouth) proposes that Digital Preservation should now be treated in the same way as any other risk management activity within an organisation, and considers how KEEP integrates into this.

Session 2 - Challenges for Libraries in Digital Preservation

Speaker Guillaume Badou-Barthelemy (BnF) considers the challenges facing libraries and other memory institutions in preserving their digital materials

Session 3 - Overview of the KEEP Project

Speaker Guillaume Badou-Barthelemy (BnF) provides an introduction and overview to the KEEP Project

Session 4 - Introduction to KEEP Legal Studies

The law as it relates to the use of emulators and the transfer of data between media is highly complex. Speaker David Anderson (University of Portsmouth) introduces the subject referring to the KEEP Layman's Guide to Legal Studies

Session 5 - The KEEP Emulation Framework

Speakers Jeffrey van der Hoeven (Dutch National Library) and Bram Lohman (Tessella) introduce the KEEP Emulation Framework

Session 6 - The KEEP Media Transfer Service

Speakers Marcus Dindorf (German National Library), Janet Delve Antonio Ciuffreda and Leo Konstantelos (all University of Portsmouth) consider the issue of obsolete media carriers and introduce the KEEP Media Transfer Tools and explain how they have been integrated for use within the PLANETS Interoperability Framework

Session 7 - Metadata in Emulation

Janet Delve Antonio Ciuffreda and Leo Konstantelos (all University of Portsmouth) consider the special metadata requirements of computer emulation and introduce the TOTEM metadata database

Session 8 - Emulation Issues in Games Preservation

This presentation on behalf of EGDF considers the special issues relating to the preservation of Computer Games in which emulation plays a key part and considers how the Computer Games market is changing and what this might mean in the future for games preservation.

Session 9 - The KEEP Virtual Machine

This presentation considers the final major research output of the KEEP Project - the KEEP Virtual Machine