This is the final entry in our mini-series of four exemplar repository profiles, and it covers the soon-to-be-launched Kultur arts repository at the University of the Arts, London. To recap again for new readers, the purpose of these initial surveys of the exemplar repositories in the KeepIt project is to characterise the repositories …
One view of digital preservation is it is the management of risk. A component of preservation is storage, and there are an increasing range of storage options. This is why EPrints repository software, following work in the Preserv 2 and KeepIt projects, has developed a repository storage controller and a …
Our third repository exemplar is eCrystals, which manages scientific, specifically crystallography, data that might be referred to broadly as e-data or e-science. To recap the purpose of these initial surveys of the four exemplar repositories in the KeepIt project, we are seeking to characterise the repositories not in terms of their preservation activity …
After looking first at the EdShare repository, the second of our exemplar surveys looks at NECTAR, the institutional repository for the University of Northampton. Our approach to repository preservation is founded on recognising the motivations, objectives and activities of the individual repository, rather than the other way around. So in the initial …
It is likely that most authors of repository content, like most of the general population of the planet, use Microsoft Office tools. This may not be immediately apparent, but Office is likely to be the source of most pdfs found in repositories. For presentation and preservation, apparently, repositories prefer pdf …
Debra pre-empted the results of this survey for EdShare appearing here, since she saw the draft and not unreasonably anticipated that I would post the final version here somewhat sooner. I am pleased to complete the record. http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/ Entry in Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?url=http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/ Current status of repository …
How well positioned and adaptable are our exemplar repositories for digital preservation practices? In the next couple of weeks I’ll be visiting each of them to find out. It’s important that we identify the requirements of the repository and build on what is there, rather than trying to transform them …
Repositories are entrusted by their institutions to manage their digital outputs, so data management is clearly a core activity, but extending that to longer term requirements – ‘digital preservation’ – has not happened yet on a wide scale. Who will be responsible for preserving this content: repositories and their institutions, …