Background to EdShare EdShare is a resource for collaboration and sharing of materials used in teaching and learning at the University of Southampton. EdShare is based on the successful EPrints software and was developed in the EdSpace Project at the University of Southampton. The resource has been created for teachers …
Following our last project group meeting we were all asked to come up with a set of objectives as preservation exemplar repositories. Mine are listed below. About NECTAR: NECTAR is a repository of research outputs; content comprises a range of item types (e.g. journal articles, book chapters, performances, conference papers, …
Should institutional repositories do data curation? Underlying this question is: what is a repository, and is that changing? Without going into full detail, there are some straws in the wind. First, back when I was working for the Repositories Support Project, Tony Hey, VP Microsoft and formerly head of our …
Data deletion happens within institutions, but the institutional repository can help prevent it. The previous post considered the prospect of single-click deletion of data, i.e. inadvertent or unexpected sudden loss of data. From a formal digital preservation perspective this is a rather simplistic example, but as Brian Kelly recently noted, “Why …
Having used Windows since Win95, I recently switched to a new Mac laptop. Perhaps I should have waited until Win 7, but this Mac has a better screen that any earlier machine I’ve used, so I went for it. Getting used to the Mac – different shortcuts, lack of a …