I recently updated the Preserv bibliography for the first time in nearly a year. Hence, for those following KeepIt but not the earlier Preserv project, you may not have come across it It may be, currently, the most extensive bibliography on digital preservation, perhaps. Yet it isn’t comprehensive because it …
Twitter: Rory McNicholl (from #dptp slides): Is there a tool that covers the entire OAIS model? (next slide shows full diagram) “What do you think?” https://twitter.com/jisckeepit (2:33 PM Oct 22nd) So there goes another weekend, of relaxation, reflection and little event, interrupted as usual by the weekly supermarket shopping trip. We don’t have a …
A little bit about eCrystals: eCrystals Southampton (http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/) is a data repository based on the EPrints platform, but heavily reconfigured to manage data files from chemical crystallography structure determination experiments. The repository evolved out of 2 rounds of JISC funding of the eBank-UK project (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/). The repository has a schema …
The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is hosting another course in London next week. This is becoming a well established feature of the digital preservation landscape in the UK and further afield. It’s not cheap, but good quality training is not. One innovation to have resulted from this cost is …
I suppose the first thing I should comment upon is ‘UAL Research Online’. While I have worked upon and am still employed as Kultur Project Officer, the Kultur project has actually finished and I am working upon UAL Research Online. This is of course one of the outcomes from the …
The KeepIt project builds on substantial prior experience in the areas of digital repositories, through its partners, and digital preservation. In particular, the approach to preservation is informed by an earlier project, Preserv (spanning two phases from 2005). There are two ways of looking at this, as I said in …
The Twitterstream flows fast and isn’t always there for review later. So here is the stream, copied live from Twitter #ipres09, the Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (San Francisco, 5-6 October 2009), on Dave Tarrant’s talk:Â Where the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 meet format risk management: P2 …
Exciting news. This is now a real time blog, which means you can receive new posts the instant they are published, thanks to a plugin (rssCloud) that has been enabled for WordPress blogs, of which this is one. All you have to do is install a feed reader, such as …