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 …
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 …
So, Steve suggested that for the diary, there might be different perspectives on a Project event. Steve and I had a meeting as a preparation for participation in the KeepIt Project. Steve has blogged from his perspective on our conversation and this is my take on some aspects of our …