Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET
Join us for an informal conversation on action items from @RiskNorth3: Safeguarding the Canadian Digital Record, the digital preservation summit that took place in November 2024. Sarah Lake (Concordia), CARL Visiting Program Officer for Digital Preservation, will give a short presentation on the high-level outcomes of @RN3, as shared in the @Risk North 3 Summit Report, and provide a progress update from the Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) on these action items. The presentation will be followed by an open discussion moderated by Sarah and Geoff Harder (Alberta), chair of the DPWG. Participants are encouraged to share their thoughts and suggestions for carrying forward summit learnings and priorities. Whether you attended @RN3 or not, this call is an opportunity to give feedback for future events, and more broadly, to provide community input on how we can best engage, collaborate and support digital preservation in Canada in the next few years.
This call will be held in French. An English language call, facilitated by Sarah Lake and Geoff Harder (Alberta, and DPWG chair) will take place on Friday, June 20th.
To facilitate a productive discussion, we encourage participants to complete a short (6 question) form ahead of the call: https://forms.gle/H9nB5ageN3HGCkma6.
The DPWG includes members from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Canadiana.org, Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL), Library & Archives Canada, Scholars Portal / Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), CARL, and several Canadian research libraries.The DPWG works towards the long-term stewardship of Canada’s digital scholarly record and multi-format documentary heritage, including assessing digital preservation capacity, available resources, and funding opportunities within the Canadian research community; identifying and promoting relevant approaches, standards, practices, and technologies, and liaising with relevant international efforts in order to cultivate an appropriate knowledge of the broader field of digital preservation within Canada.
Note that presentations will be recorded but the discussion period will not.
