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KeepIt course 2: Keeping Research Data Safe

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 Presentations and tutorial exercises course 2 (source files) Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) is an approach to institutional costings and budgets for managing …

KeepIt course 2: institutional and lifecycle preservation costs

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 Presentations and tutorial exercises course 2 (source files) Welcome to our time capsule version of the KeepIt course, which is posted, for completeness, some …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Data report challenges IR managers

Nobody has asked the question – perhaps it doesn’t need asking after KeepIt course 1 – but why did a course on digital preservation start with organisational issues? Recently a new report was published by the Digital Curation Centre, and I will pick out one section that answers that question: Data …

KeepIt course 1: Assessing institutional digital assets

KeepIt course module 1, Southampton, 19 January 2010 Tools this module: DAF, AIDA Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 1, the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 1 (source files) Using the Data Asset Framework (DAF) will help you to discover hidden digital content produced in your institution that …

KeepIt course 1: Using the Data Asset Framework

KeepIt course module 1, Southampton, 19 January 2010 Tools this module: DAF, AIDA Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 1, the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 1 (source files) How much do we know about the range of digital content produced in an institution? …