When we talk about digital preservation or institutional repositories, not everyone has the same perspective, or the same terminology, for the work we are engaged in. For example, the institutional repository will have to work with people from all parts of the institution, including IT, data centre, legal, etc. staff. …
Digital preservation has long been more art than science, but that has been changing. Although you will still find much hand waving on the topic, someone who transcends this with a fundamentally quantitative approach is David Rosenthal, one of the instigators of LOCKSS. Rosenthal’s plenary at the Coalition for Networked …
For those with an interest in emerging arts repositories, the Repositories Support Project held a timely meeting earlier this week, Open Access and Repositories in the Arts. Only two actual repository examples were presented, the Kultur repository at University of the Arts London, a KeepIt project partner, and PRIMO (Practice as Research in …
Presented as part of the half-minute madness session at the JISC Infomation Environment and VRE programme meeting (Twitter #inf11): “prepare your 30 second introduction to your project. No powerpoint slides permitted, should be aimed at a general audience.” Steve Hitchcock, KeepIt project Last week David Hockney was on TV painting Yorkshire …