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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
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 …