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 …
“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;Â and to engage stakeholders.” Near the start of the KeepIt project, Steve …
Digital preservation presents its own complexity. Add the complexity of the target content, and it’s easy to get mired. This is particularly so for the case of open access (OA) content where that content is made available through institutional repositories (IRs), so-called ‘green’ open access. This is the layer cake …
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. …
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 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 …
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 …