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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
KeepIt course module 3, London, 2 March 2010 Principal topic this module: significant properties Tools this module: PREMIS, Open Provenance Model (OPM) Tags Find out more about: this module KeepIt course 3, the full KeepIt course Presentations and tutorial exercises course 3 (source files) After the simple game designed to highlight …
(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 …
File formats are a critical feature in digital preservation. This is hardly news to specialists, but in their objectives the repository managers of our exemplars also expressed an interest in file formats, so I was interested to discover what the recent report on file formats from the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) might …
The Twitterstream flows fast and isn’t always there for review later. So here is the stream, copied live from Twitter #ipres09, the Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (San Francisco, 5-6 October 2009), on Dave Tarrant’s talk:Â Where the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 meet format risk management: P2 …