Twitter: Rory McNicholl (from #dptp slides): Is there a tool that covers the entire OAIS model? (next slide shows full diagram) “What do you think?” https://twitter.com/jisckeepit (2:33 PM Oct 22nd) So there goes another weekend, of relaxation, reflection and little event, interrupted as usual by the weekly supermarket shopping trip. We don’t have a …
The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is hosting another course in London next week. This is becoming a well established feature of the digital preservation landscape in the UK and further afield. It’s not cheap, but good quality training is not. One innovation to have resulted from this cost is …
The KeepIt project builds on substantial prior experience in the areas of digital repositories, through its partners, and digital preservation. In particular, the approach to preservation is informed by an earlier project, Preserv (spanning two phases from 2005). There are two ways of looking at this, as I said in …
The Twitterstream flows fast and isn’t always there for review later. So here is the stream, copied live from Twitter #ipres09, the Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (San Francisco, 5-6 October 2009), on Dave Tarrant’s talk:Â Where the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 meet format risk management: P2 …
Exciting news. This is now a real time blog, which means you can receive new posts the instant they are published, thanks to a plugin (rssCloud) that has been enabled for WordPress blogs, of which this is one. All you have to do is install a feed reader, such as …
Should institutional repositories do data curation? Underlying this question is: what is a repository, and is that changing? Without going into full detail, there are some straws in the wind. First, back when I was working for the Repositories Support Project, Tony Hey, VP Microsoft and formerly head of our …
Data deletion happens within institutions, but the institutional repository can help prevent it. The previous post considered the prospect of single-click deletion of data, i.e. inadvertent or unexpected sudden loss of data. From a formal digital preservation perspective this is a rather simplistic example, but as Brian Kelly recently noted, âWhy …
Having used Windows since Win95, I recently switched to a new Mac laptop. Perhaps I should have waited until Win 7, but this Mac has a better screen that any earlier machine I’ve used, so I went for it. Getting used to the Mac – different shortcuts, lack of a …
The focus of the KeepIt project is preservation of repositories of broad scope, and our aim is to make a difference. This is challenging, but we are not alone, and our work overlaps with many others in various ways, whether concerned with digital repositories or preservation; ideally repositories AND preservation. …
When we talk about digital preservation or institutional repositories, not everyone has the same perspective, or the same terminology, for the work we are engaged in. For example, the institutional repository will have to work with people from all parts of the institution, including IT, data centre, legal, etc. staff. …