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EPrints preservation apps: from PRONOM-ROAR to Amazon and a Bazaar

your computation goes to where your data is, not the other way around. Alistair Croll, Big business for big data, O’Reilly radar, 21 September 2010 They’re now called apps, after a certain other initiative; they were called plugins. As the KeepIt project moves towards its close, this is the story of …

Final thoughts on digital preservation work undertaken at UAL

As part of our participation in the KeepIt project, the EPrints Formats/Risks plugin was installed on our newly-upgraded repository in order to allow us to identify format risks based on DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) [this blog post includes an explanation of how the DROID file format tool works]. We performed …

Repository file type analysis for educational repositories

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 …

KeepIt course 4: putting a preservation plan into EPrints

KeepIt course module 4, Southampton, 18-19 March 2010 Tools this module: Plato, EPrints preservation apps Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 4, the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 4 (source files) So far in the practical work in KeepIt course 4 we have managed …

KeepIt course 4: Physical Preservation with EPrints

KeepIt course module 4, Southampton, 18-19 March 2010 Tools this module: Plato, EPrints preservation apps Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 4, the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 4 (source files) In this session of KeepIt course 4 we will use EPrints preservation apps …

Conditions for digital preservation

(or how to anticipate turnout at your preservation workshop) DIGITAL PRESERVATION is NOT so DIFFICULT if you WANT to DO IT You will want to do digital preservation if … View the conditionals now, see slide 2 in the slideshow below, or read on. Thus began the introduction to my …