The large and growing volume of data held in an increasing variety of relational databases presents a huge challenge to the archiving community. In this practitioner and developer hackathon we will run requirements workshops and facilitate hands-on hack-sessions to address the issues of preserving databases. We will consider SIARD as a potential archiving standard and review its implementation at the Danish National Archives as well as discussing other existing practical solutions, for example, MIXED and RODA etc. During the event there will be demonstrations of existing tools as well as opportunities to discuss alternative solutions such as emulation.

To see the agenda visit: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/Database+Archiving+Event+Agenda

For more information, including hotel and travel information please visit: http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/2012-02-07+OPF+Hackathon+-+A+Practical+Approach+to+Database+Archiving

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Registration

OPF members are invited free-of-charge (please use the code issued to your main point of contact at your organisation). Non-members are welcome at the rate of EUR 200.00.

Terms and conditions

Full payment must be received in full one week before the event (by 31 January 2012).

There will be a EUR 100.00 no show/cancellation fee if you do not notify us within one full week of the event date.

If you wish to pay by BACS electronic transfer, please email rebecca@openplanetsfoundation.org for bank details.

Non-EC applicants will be responsible for making all their own travel and visa arrangements. Under no circumstances can any letters of support for visa applications be provided to any non-members.