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. …
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 …
The focus of the KeepIt project is preservation of repositories of broad scope, and our aim is to make a difference. This is challenging, but we are not alone, and our work overlaps with many others in various ways, whether concerned with digital repositories or preservation; ideally repositories AND preservation. …
Presented as part of the half-minute madness session at the JISC Infomation Environment and VRE programme meeting (Twitter #inf11): “prepare your 30 second introduction to your project. No powerpoint slides permitted, should be aimed at a general audience.” Steve Hitchcock, KeepIt project Last week David Hockney was on TV painting Yorkshire …
Repositories are entrusted by their institutions to manage their digital outputs, so data management is clearly a core activity, but extending that to longer term requirements – ‘digital preservation’ – has not happened yet on a wide scale. Who will be responsible for preserving this content: repositories and their institutions, …