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Year: <span>2009</span>

Exemplar repositories: positioned for preservation?

How well positioned and adaptable are our exemplar repositories for digital preservation practices? In the next couple of weeks I’ll be visiting each of them to find out. It’s important that we identify the requirements of the repository and build on what is there, rather than trying to transform them …

KeepIt project and this blog: the start

Repositories are entrusted by their institutions to manage their digital outputs, so data management is clearly a core activity, but extending that to longer term requirements – ‘digital preservation’ – has not happened yet on a wide scale. Who will be responsible for preserving this content: repositories and their institutions, …