Introduction to the sessions & structure of the Hackathon Paul Wheatley British Library / OPF / DPC

Approach and aims Capture preservation challenges Solve the challenges Record, evaluate and publish the results Interaction and knowledge sharing Roles: Collection Owners and Developers

The Preservation Challenge What is this digital collection? What risks are associated with this digital collection? Is this collection content? Is the metadata consistent with the content? Are all the pages present in each issue? Are all digitised pages in focus? Are any files damaged? Are the files compliant with a specific profile?

Agenda overview: Day 1 Preservation challenges Presentations from participants Team up the participants Brainstorm our preservation challenges and prioritise Developers: begin developing a solution for your collection owner Collection owners: discuss and write up requirements on the wiki Report back to the group

Agenda overview: Day 2 Hacking solutions Techies: hacking solutions Collection owners: requirements gathering and special sessions: –Tools and projects –Workflows –File format identification –Preservation Planning Check points for working in your teams

Agenda overview: Day 3 Wrapping up, reporting, evaluation Wrapping up developments Checking in code to Git Completing wiki write ups Reporting back results Evaluation Voting and prizes!

The wiki End to end preservation challenges or “scenarios”: –Dataset –Issue –Context –Solution This record is invaluable to steer future development

Throughout the event Facilitators are on hand to help – just ask No “stupid” questions Your fellow developers and collection owners are also on hand to help! Reporting back sessions – ask us if you want to do more or have a themed discussion session Visualisation resource on days 2 and 3 (Ivan and Luka)

Teams and Groups Table 1 –Ifor, Jodie + Michael, Dave –Louise, Andrew + Lucien Table 2 –Jenny + Carl –Gerben + Kam Table 3 –Cal + Swithun –Lynne, Carol + Derek –Klaus + Thomas