Digital preservation training & professional development
JISC is committed to ensuring that UK universities are able to call upon well-trained and knowledgeable practitioners to undertake effective information management, both within and beyond their institutions, via collaborations, using advisory services or calling upon the assistance of dedicated support projects and programmes. Digital Preservation is widely viewed as an area where specialist knowledge is required and there is consequently a need to ensure that adequate training and career and professional development opportunities are available to build capacity within the sector.
It is important that examples of good practice, accepted lexicons, widely disseminated use-cases, agreed standards, and robust technical procedures are used throughout the profession and are adopted by those teaching post-graduate curricula and professional training courses. If an emerging generation of practitioners is exposed to real-world examples of preservation practice and has a realistic grasp of the challenges faced by organisations who are dealing with burgeoning amounts of digital material across all sectors of activity: government, cultural heritage, health, public broadcasting, education and the private sector, then all organisations will benefit from a better-trained pool of expertise from which to recruit the next tranche of information specialists.
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