By funding projects like KeepIt, JISC has for many years sought to develop and promote best practice in digital preservation. This is consistent with JISC’s role as an advisor on technology and digital strategies to UK higher and further education, through the Higher Education Funding Councils. At the invitation of …
KeepIt course module 5, Northampton, 30 March 2010 Tools this module: TRAC, DRAMBORA Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 5, the full KeepIt course Presentation referred to in this blog entry DRAMBORA: Risk and trust and Data management (Slideshare) Presentations and tutorial exercises course 5 (source files) …
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 Presentations referred to in this blog entry Using DAF as a Data Scoping Tool, The DAF at Southampton (Slideshare) Presentations and tutorial exercises …
Recently each of the KeepIt project’s four exemplar repositories detailed objectives for their part in this work. Admittedly, when they were first asked to do this the reaction of the repository managers was one of surprise and perhaps consternation. They were probably thinking, as you are, why now, some way …
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 …
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 …
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, …
This is the final entry in our mini-series of four exemplar repository profiles, and it covers the soon-to-be-launched Kultur arts repository at the University of the Arts, London. To recap again for new readers, the purpose of these initial surveys of the exemplar repositories in the KeepIt project is to characterise the repositories …
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 …