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Education for digital preservation

Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE)

The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE), as part of the Library of Congress, serves to foster preservation of digital content through a collaborative network of instructors and collection management professionals working in cultural heritage institutions. Comprised of Library of Congress staff, the National Trainer Network, the DPOE Steering Committee, and a community of Digital Preservation Education Advocates, as of 2013 the DPOE has 24 working trainers across the six regions of the United States.

In 2010 the DPOE conducted an assessment, reaching out to archivists, librarians, and other information professionals around the country. A working group of DPOE instructors then developed a curriculum based on the assessment results and other similar digital preservation curricula designed by other training programs, such as LYRASIS, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative, University of North Carolina, DigCCurr (Digital Curation Curriculum) and Cornell University-ICPSR Digital Preservation Management Workshops. The resulting core principles are also modeled on the principles outlined in "A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections" by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

NISO Framework Advisory Group (2007). A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. 3rd edition. Bethesda, MD: National Information Standards organization. Retrieved November 17, 2008, from http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/framework3.pdf

Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE)

The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE), as part of the Library of Congress, serves to foster preservation of digital content through a collaborative network of instructors and collection management professionals working in cultural heritage institutions. Comprised of Library of Congress staff, the National Trainer Network, the DPOE Steering Committee, and a community of Digital Preservation Education Advocates, the DPOE currently has 24 working trainers across the six regions of the United States.

In order to determine the needs of the affected community, the DPOE conducted an assessment during the summer and Fall of 2010, reaching out to archivists, librarians, and other information professionals around the country. A working group of DPOE instructors then developed a curriculum based on the assessment results and other similar digital preservation curricula designed by other training programs, such as LYRASIS, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative, University of North Carolina, DigCCurr (Digital Curation Curriculum) and Cornell University-ICPSR Digital Preservation Management Workshops. The resulting core principles are also modeled on the principles outlined in" A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections" by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). The current training curriculum of the DPOE is structured around 6 themes: Identify, Select, Store, Protect, Manage, and Provide. DPOE held its first Train-the-Trainer workshop on September 20–23, 2011 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

On February 12, 2012, the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program met with leaders in the academic and cultural heritage world to discuss further expansion of the DPOE program. In a grassroots digital preservation education effort, DPOE with guide efforts toward regional training centers that promote education and outreach. Within less than a year of the program starting, DPOE Trainers have already delivered curriculum based training to 900 information professionals.