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Month: <span>September 2010</span>

KeepIt course 4: Physical Preservation with EPrints

KeepIt course module 4, Southampton, 18-19 March 2010 Tools this module: Plato, EPrints preservation apps Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 4, the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 4 (source files) In this session of KeepIt course 4 we will use EPrints preservation apps …

KeepIt course 4: Putting storage, format management and preservation planning in the repository

KeepIt course module 4, Southampton, 18-19 March 2010 Tools this module: Plato, EPrints preservation apps Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 4, the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 4 (source files) We continue our journey through the KeepIt course modules, adding commentary and context …

Adding chemistry to a file format registry

Everybody knows DROID. Well, everybody working in digital preservation. And for those being introduced to digital preservation, it’s likely they will be shown a tool or two, because tools help us do practical preservation. And among those tools the one most likely to be shown will be DROID (for example, …

Unravelling the Open Access-Preservation layer cake

Digital preservation presents its own complexity. Add the complexity of the target content, and it’s easy to get mired. This is particularly so for the case of open access (OA) content where that content is made available through institutional repositories (IRs), so-called ‘green’ open access. This is the layer cake …