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Docbyte Vault Training

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From preservation principles to practical archive design

Docbyte Vault Training combines the foundations of digital archiving with practical archive design and Vault configuration. Participants learn how information packages, metadata, preservation and access come together in a trusted digital archive.

  • Understand the purpose and principles of digital preservation.
  • Explore information packages, metadata, E-ARK and OAIS in practice.
  • Connect preservation strategy and actions to practical archive design.
  • Build a shared foundation for working with Docbyte Vault.
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Docbyte Vault Fundamentals

Fundamentals introduces the concepts behind a trusted digital archive and shows how they translate into Docbyte Vault. It is the recommended foundation for Advanced, but not a mandatory prerequisite.

  • Digital archiving fundamentals: Explore digital preservation, information packages, documents, metadata, E-ARK package formats and the principles that keep archived information understandable and accessible over time.
  • Concepts to practice: Work through OAIS in practice, its six functions, preservation strategies and preservation actions. Use these concepts to make sound archive-design decisions.

Docbyte Vault Advanced

Advanced applies the concepts from digital archiving to a practical application-retirement scenario. Participants learn how to configure a Docbyte Vault environment for the chosen use case and apply the resulting archive design to a practical, validated archive workflow.

  • Configuring your Docbyte Vault: Translate archive requirements into a coherent Vault configuration. Work with package design, metadata, relationships, search and the choices needed to support reliable, governed access.
  • Application retirement in practice Use application retirement as the integrating case. Bring together archive design, integrations, metadata, search and validation in a practical workflow. Platform deployment remains outside the scope.
  • Docbyte Vault Solutions: See how the main Docbyte Vault solutions support preservation, management and access. The section connects the digital-archiving principles to the Docbyte Vault context without moving into technical deployment.
  • Designing your Docbyte Vault: Apply the concepts to an initial archive design. Consider the information to be preserved, package granularity, metadata, relationships, access and the choices that should be made before practical configuration.
  • Recommended preparation for Advanced: Fundamentals gives participants the vocabulary and design principles needed to follow Advanced. Participants with equivalent knowledge may join Advanced directly.

A practical learning path

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Understand digital preservation and the OAIS model

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Work with information packages, metadata and context

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Explore preservation strategies and preservation actions

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Connect the principles to Docbyte Vault Solutions

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Design an initial Docbyte Vault archive structure

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. Fundamentals is recommended preparation, but it is not mandatory if you already have sufficient knowledge of digital archiving and Docbyte Vault.

No. The training focuses on designing and configuring a Vault environment and applying it to practical archive workflows. Platform deployment, provisioning and infrastructure setup are outside the scope.

Working knowledge of XML and XSLT is expected for Advanced. No separate infrastructure or development environment is presented as a public prerequisite.

Application retirement brings together archive design, package structure, metadata, validation and search in one practical scenario.

Yes. Include the expected number of participants in the request form. We will review the request and propose the most suitable option.

Deleting or switching off a system removes the operating burden, but it can also remove access to evidence. Application retirement preserves the information that still has value, together with the relationships, metadata, retention rules and audit trail needed to understand and defend it later.

Structured data archiving keeps retired application data searchable, governed and traceable after the source system is decommissioned. It supports retention management, legal hold, audit requests and controlled access without keeping obsolete infrastructure alive

A defensible retirement process includes extraction checks, validation rules, reconciliation, integrity evidence and documentation of the migration outcome. This creates an audit trail showing what was migrated, how it was validated and how it can be accessed after retirement.

Docbyte Vault provides a governed archive for retired application data. It supports structured data preservation, metadata and context retention, controlled access, search, retention, legal hold, auditability and long-term preservation beyond the life of the original system.

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  • Choose the track that matches your current knowledge and project needs.
  • Build a shared foundation for digital archiving and Docbyte Vault.
  • Request a place for a group of up to 12 participants.

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