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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …