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DP people to watch: David Rosenthal

Digital preservation has long been more art than science, but that has been changing. Although you will still find much hand waving on the topic, someone who transcends this with a fundamentally quantitative approach is David Rosenthal, one of the instigators of LOCKSS. Rosenthal’s plenary at the Coalition for Networked …

Arts repositories in the spotlight

For those with an interest in emerging arts repositories, the Repositories Support Project held a timely meeting earlier this week, Open Access and Repositories in the Arts. Only two actual repository examples were presented, the Kultur repository at University of the Arts London, a KeepIt project partner, and PRIMO (Practice as Research in …

Eating our own dogfood? Yes we can!

Having been questioned about whether or how we might preserve our project outputs in the form of blogs, slideshows, videos, some colleagues in the EPrints developer team have revealed how they are rising to the challenge and creating tools to support inclusion of new online content forms in repositories. Chris …

Preserving arts repositories: exceedingly good slides

It’s an exciting possibility that arts repositories will not be the same as conventional institutional repositories. That will also bring new challenges in terms of managing data today and tomorrow, and it’s why Kultur is an important exemplar for the KeepIt project. I discovered some of those challenges when I …

Preserving URLs

There are many dimensions to digital preservation. Typically we think about the individual objects, the digital bits that form the object and our ability to render, present or perform the object for a human to view or for another machine to use. Another aspect is locating and retrieving the object. …