A little bit about eCrystals: eCrystals Southampton (http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/) is a data repository based on the EPrints platform, but heavily reconfigured to manage data files from chemical crystallography structure determination experiments. The repository evolved out of 2 rounds of JISC funding of the eBank-UK project (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/). The repository has a schema …
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 …
I suppose the first thing I should comment upon is ‘UAL Research Online’. While I have worked upon and am still employed as Kultur Project Officer, the Kultur project has actually finished and I am working upon UAL Research Online. This is of course one of the outcomes from the …
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 …
Background to EdShare EdShare is a resource for collaboration and sharing of materials used in teaching and learning at the University of Southampton. EdShare is based on the successful EPrints software and was developed in the EdSpace Project at the University of Southampton. The resource has been created for teachers …
Following our last project group meeting we were all asked to come up with a set of objectives as preservation exemplar repositories. Mine are listed below. About NECTAR: NECTAR is a repository of research outputs; content comprises a range of item types (e.g. journal articles, book chapters, performances, conference papers, …
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, “Why …