Repositories Are Doin’ It For Themselves (with due deference to Annie Lennox) “Up to a point, Lord Copper” (with due deference to Evelyn Waugh) When faced with the challenge of doing digital preservation, what will institutional repository managers choose to do? The KeepIt project aimed to find out, and now …
How format profiles can reveal potentially characteristic fingerprints for emerging types of repository. Not all digital repositories are the same. Nor are all institutional repositories the same. In fact, the differences between the types of repositories emerging recently can be surprisingly large. In KeepIt we’ve been investigating how these differences …
your computation goes to where your data is, not the other way around. Alistair Croll, Big business for big data, O’Reilly radar, 21 September 2010 They’re now called apps, after a certain other initiative; they were called plugins. As the KeepIt project moves towards its close, this is the story of …
Saturday morning, and I picked up an unread copy of the week’s Guardian g2 section where I chanced on a piece by Mark Lawson about some lost British television drama from the 1950s and 1960s that had resurfaced in the USA at the Library of Congress (LoC). I quickly tweeted …
KeepIt course module 5, Northampton, 30 March 2010 Tags Find out more about the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 5 (source files) Using copies of selected slides from the course, the following revision session summarises which tools were used and what we did with them, including a reminder …
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 Presentations and tutorial exercises course 5 (source files) “The Digital Repository Audit Method Based On Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) was developed by the Digital Curation …
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 Presentations and tutorial exercises course 5 (source files) Our primary tools in KeepIt course 5 are TRAC and DRAMBORA. We’ve seen passing references …
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 Presentations and tutorial exercises course 5 (source files) “Say what you do. Do what you say. Show that you do what you say. …
This is a copy of the live Twitter record (edited to remove duplicates and retweets) for the presentation: Dave Tarrant, Connecting preservation planning and Plato with digital repository interfaces, iPres 2010, Vienna, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 (Day 2) Session 5a Preservation Planning and Evaluation (10:30-11:50) See also the EPrints record …
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) So far in the practical work in KeepIt course 4 we have managed …