How format profiles can reveal potentially characteristic fingerprints for emerging types of repository. Not all digital repositories are the same. Nor are all institutional repositories the same. In fact, the differences between the types of repositories emerging recently can be surprisingly large. In KeepIt we’ve been investigating how these differences …
As an institutionally-based digital repository, eCrystals is somewhat different – both as an exemplar in the KeepIt project and in the institutional repository landscape as a whole. It is operated by the National Crystallography Service (NCS), which is funded on a 5 year grant basis. This brings preservation implications and requirements …
eCrystals has been presented within KeepIt as an exemplar of a scientific data repository, but more particularly it exemplifies the ‘one man band’ scientific repository. No research scientist will take on the responsibility of setting up and administering a scientific data repository without an indication of the financial implications and …
Everybody knows DROID. Well, everybody working in digital preservation. And for those being introduced to digital preservation, it’s likely they will be shown a tool or two, because tools help us do practical preservation. And among those tools the one most likely to be shown will be DROID (for example, …
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 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 …
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 …