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Year: <span>2010</span>

Conditions for digital preservation

(or how to anticipate turnout at your preservation workshop) DIGITAL PRESERVATION is NOT so DIFFICULT if you WANT to DO IT You will want to do digital preservation if … View the conditionals now, see slide 2 in the slideshow below, or read on. Thus began the introduction to my …

Digital Collections Risk Assessment at LSE: Using DRAMBORA

At LSE we are undertaking a programme of infrastructure development to build on our capacity to store, manage, preserve and provide access to our growing digital collections. We have a mature IR service holding our research outputs, but are seeking to expand our capacity to handle other digital collections such …

KeepIt exemplars reveal seven steps to digital preservation readiness

The following edited Twitterstream from Wed. 7th July 2010 is taken from the conference record for OR 2010 on Twapper Keeper (hashtag #or10). @jisckeepit KeepIt @ OR10 in Madrid. Waiting for Miggie to begin. Funky music playing. Auditorium huge. Audience building @jisckeepit Miggie speaking as repository manager, not as ‘specialist’ in preservation. …

Exemplars driving JISC’s digital preservation directions: an update and recap on KeepIt

By funding projects like KeepIt, JISC has for many years sought to develop and promote best practice in digital preservation. This is consistent with JISC’s role as an advisor on technology and digital strategies to UK higher and further education, through the Higher Education Funding Councils. At the invitation of …

Digital Preservation, Risk Management, and UAL Research Online

KeepIt course module 5, Northampton, 30 March 2010 Tools this module: TRAC, DRAMBORA Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 5, the full KeepIt course Presentation referred to in this blog entry DRAMBORA: Risk and trust and Data management (Slideshare) Presentations and tutorial exercises course 5 (source files) …

Getting down to the nitty-gritty: preservation workflow tools

KeepIt course module 4, Southampton, 18-19 March 2010 Tools this module: EPrints, Plato Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 4, the full KeepIt course Presentation referred to in this blog entry Preservation planning using Plato (Slideshare) Presentations and tutorial exercises course 4 (source files) So far, in …

KeepIt course 3: Primer on preservation workflow, formats and characterisation

KeepIt course module 3, London, 2 March 2010 Tools this module: Significant properties, PREMIS, Open Provenance Model (OPM) Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 3, the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 3 (source files) This post was updated on 9 April 2010. In this …

Tweets from the repository cloud

Twitter RT @llordllama: The challenge is not cloud computing but cloud thinking I didn’t go to the JISC-Eduserv meeting on Repositories and the Cloud (23 February 2010), but here is my take anyway, based on selected entries from the tagged Twitterstream for this event (#repcloud), presented in chronological order (and with …

Keeping data safe in an educational repository: cost-benefits analysis

KeepIt course module 2, Southampton, 5 February 2010 Tools this module: KRDS, LIFE Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 2, the full KeepIt course Presentation referred to in this blog entry Costs, Policy, and Benefits in Long-term Digital Preservation (Slideshare) Presentations and tutorial exercises course 2 (source …