Repositories Are Doin’ It For Themselves (with due deference to Annie Lennox) “Up to a point, Lord Copper” (with due deference to Evelyn Waugh) When faced with the challenge of doing digital preservation, what will institutional repository managers choose to do? The KeepIt project aimed to find out, and now …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“Our DAF project has provided an evidence base for the development of a future research data policy and of services to support research data management.” Some months ago I blogged about our plans to undertake a DAF project at The University of Northampton. DAF is the Data Asset Framework, which …
“From a starting point of little knowledge and still less understanding, the KeepIt project has demonstrated that digital preservation need not be scary. The secret is to take small steps; to set preservation planning within the bigger institutional context; and to engage stakeholders.” Near the start of the KeepIt project, Steve …
“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 …
The following edited Twitterstream from Wed. 7th July 2010 is taken from the conference record for OR 2010 on Twapper Keeper (hashtag #or10). @jisckeepit KeepIt @ OR10 in Madrid. Waiting for Miggie to begin. Funky music playing. Auditorium huge. Audience building @jisckeepit Miggie speaking as repository manager, not as ‘specialist’ in preservation. …