As part of our participation in the KeepIt project, the EPrints Formats/Risks plugin was installed on our newly-upgraded repository in order to allow us to identify format risks based on DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) [this blog post includes an explanation of how the DROID file format tool works]. We performed …
At the beginning of October 2010, a message was sent out across the usual mailing lists notifying the community that: “JISC infoNet have launched a learning and teaching upgrade to the Digital Repositories infoKit”. Lou McGill’s work has provided another useful and timely resource for the growing number of educational …
One of the characteristics that we have recognised in working with educational repositories is the diversity of the file types content creators work with in their development of educational resources. “It would be unrealistic, even positively unhelpful for an educational repository to limit by file types the kind of resources …