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 …
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 …
Presented as part of the half-minute madness session at the JISC Infomation Environment and VRE programme meeting (Twitter #inf11): “prepare your 30 second introduction to your project. No powerpoint slides permitted, should be aimed at a general audience.” Steve Hitchcock, KeepIt project Last week David Hockney was on TV painting Yorkshire …
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 …
KeepIt is a preservation project, about preserving digital repositories. But not preserving anything else, it seems. So we stand accused by Chris Gutteridge of not eating our own dogfood. The evidence is here, in this blog. What are we doing to preserve the content of this blog, the embedded content …
Yesterday Dave Tarrant from KeepIt was speaking at the latest Sun PASIG meeting in Malta (#pasig on Twitter). Chris Rusbridge, head of DCC, was tweeting from the event all day and had this to say about Dave’s presentation: Tarrant at 90 mph getting ePrints 3.2 data directly into a couple …
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 …
The first KeepIt project meeting for partners took place on 2 June and led with three presentations: to prompt discussion on why we should be wary of the big issues in digital preservation, on new tools to support repository preservation, and on the experience of one exemplar repository that has …
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. …
EdShare is one of the repository exemplars in the KeepIt project, and was recently profiled on this blog. For a broader view of this repository Debra Morris, manager of EdShare, has written an article in Ariadne (confusingly labelled as the April 2009 issue, but it has only just been announced): Encouraging …