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 …
One of the characteristics that we have recognised in working with educational repositories is the diversity of the file types content creators work with in their development of educational resources. “It would be unrealistic, even positively unhelpful for an educational repository to limit by file types the kind of resources …
“Participation in the KeepIt Project has provided us with an excellent practical grasp of the realities of preservation and brought an apparently enormous and daunting area into the realms of approachable and practical possibilities.” We have developed an approach which will enable others to make a start and to develop …
KeepIt course module 2, Southampton, 5 February 2010 Tools this module: KRDS, LIFE Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 2, the full KeepIt course Presentation referred to in this blog entry Costs, Policy, and Benefits in Long-term Digital Preservation (Slideshare) Presentations and tutorial exercises course 2 (source …
KeepIt course module 1, Southampton, 19 January 2010 Tools this module: DAF, AIDA Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 1, the full KeepIt course Presentation referred to in this blog entry The AIDA toolkit: Assessing Institutional Digital Assets (Slideshare) Presentations and tutorial exercises course 1 (source files) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …