Putting iPRES 2024 in Context

Part of the iPRES 2024 Workshop "Digital Preservation Registries: What We Have & What We Need"

Goal

The goal of this activity is to introduce you to the Digital Preservation Publications Index, use it to help place iPRES 2024 in context, and get your feedback on how it goes and what could be improved.

We'll work together to find relevant papers from the twenty-year history of iPRES and connect them to this year's publications using the conference platform's commenting system.

Preparation

• Go to the iPRES 2024 site and sign up for an account (if you haven't already).
• Make sure you are logged in.
• Keep this page open, and open new windows/tabs for:
  • The iPRES 2024 Search Page
  • The Publications Index

Process

• Use the coordination spreadsheet below to find a paper you'd like to work with. Leave some unique identifier (like your initials, or your favourite colour/color/biscuit/musician/beverage/utensil/parent/child etc.) in the Working On It columns. That way we can avoid duplicating effort.

• Go to or search for the article, open it up, give it a quick scan.
  • If the publications has keywords, they should link back to the Publications Index, so you could try that, or...
• Go to the Publications Index and use it to search for related papers.
  • Note that the Publications Index has two access/search systems, one plain website-style search and a more complicated but powerful database-driven system. Please try them both!
• If you find something interesting, use the iPRES 2024 commenting system to add a note linking to the related paper(s) and describing how they are connected.
  • Please don't just put a link in with no explanation.
  • If you have some personal connection to the linked work, please make that clear!
  • Maybe try looking for other papers by the authors, or variations on the keywords.
  • Take your marker out of the Google Sheet when you move on.
• If you have any difficulties, let us know!
• If you have any feedback, let us know! The Feedback section below provides some more detail on feedback we'd like and a way to pass feedback to us anonymously if you prefer.

Feedback

We'd like any and all feedback about the iPRES Proceedings and the Publications Index. e.g.

• What other sources of relevant publications should we include in the index?
• What additional fields or functionality would have helped?
• What additional documentation or support should we add?
• Are the keywords links from iPRES 2024 publications to the Publications Index helpful?
• What should the digital preservation community and the iPRES Steering Group do with the iPRES Proceedings?

You can use the Padlet below to leave feedback, or add a 👍/👎 to the feedback that's already there. Unless you have specifically logged into the Padlet service, this feedback will be anonymous. Either way, please be kind.