The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is hosting another course in London next week. This is becoming a well established feature of the digital preservation landscape in the UK and further afield. It’s not cheap, but good quality training is not. One innovation to have resulted from this cost is …
Digital preservation has long been more art than science, but that has been changing. Although you will still find much hand waving on the topic, someone who transcends this with a fundamentally quantitative approach is David Rosenthal, one of the instigators of LOCKSS. Rosenthal’s plenary at the Coalition for Networked …
For those with an interest in emerging arts repositories, the Repositories Support Project held a timely meeting earlier this week, Open Access and Repositories in the Arts. Only two actual repository examples were presented, the Kultur repository at University of the Arts London, a KeepIt project partner, and PRIMO (Practice as Research in …
It’s an exciting possibility that arts repositories will not be the same as conventional institutional repositories. That will also bring new challenges in terms of managing data today and tomorrow, and it’s why Kultur is an important exemplar for the KeepIt project. I discovered some of those challenges when I …