preservation

IDCC11 Session A3: Formats

13 December, 2011 | in Blogs

This session at IDCC 2011 might have been titled “Everything to Fear but Fear Itself”. As preservation specialists know, when it comes to file format issues just about anything that can go wrong probably will in time. The three presentations in this session were about understanding the probabilities involved, and taking appropriate steps to stop data loss being the outcome.

IDCC11 Session 2B: preservation

9 December, 2011 | in Blogs

Parellel Session 2B on preservation seemed to be only loosely connected to preservation, but all the institutions involved have taken open approaches to archiving.

STFC releases a scientific data policy

19 September, 2011 | in Press Releases

The STFC has released a scientific data policy, meaning that every member of RCUK has now issued guidelines on data management and sharing. The STFC policy builds on the RCUK Common Principles on Data Policy released in April 2011. It applies to all scientific data produced as a result of STFC funding, including grants, access to beam time at STFC supported facilities, and subscriptions to other organisations. Key stipulations (by theme) include:

Software Preservation Days

23 February, 2011 | in DCC News

Software preservation workshop outputs available, new event coming from Software Sustainability Institute

Reflections on a few data management events

28 June, 2010 | in

I’ve been hastily writing up travel reports to submit expenses before year end, and in reviewing the data management events I’ve been to in the last few months, a few recurrent questions emerge...

Digital Curation and Preservation Policies in Scottish HEIs

28 April, 2010 | in DCC News

The JISC-funded ERIS project aims to enhance curation and preservation processes within institutions in order to build confidence amongst researchers in the longevity of repositories. As a first step, a survey was undertaken to collect information on the status of digital curation and preservation policies in Scottish HEIs. The survey, which did not identify any preservation policies endorsed at an institutional level, revealed that repositories are still relatively young, and that preservation is not yet amongst their highest priorities.

Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories Report released

1 April, 2010 | in Publications

We are very pleased to announce that a second State of the ART report from Alex Ball (a UKOLN-based DCC staff member) has been released, this time on Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories. It can be found under the Resources section of the DCC website, in the Technology Watch section of Briefing Papers. View State of the ART report

WebCite

WebCite® is a project initiated by the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University of Toronto intended to digitally archive web material (web pages, PDF documents, and so on) which are cited in scholarly articles. The idea of WebCite is that authors of scholarly papers (as well as editors and publishers of scholarly work) are increasingly citing digital material which is in the public domain on the web, yet which is at risk to disappear, i.e.

http://www.webcitation.org

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PARADIGM Online Workbook

Between 2005 and 2007, the Paradigm project of the Bodleian Library and John Rylands University Library explored the issues involved in the long-term preservation of born-digital private papers in the context of hybrid archives - those that are composed of traditional and born-digital formats. The project accessioned sample archives from contemporary UK politicians and used these to gain practical experience of combining archival and digital curation worflows, standards, tools and technologies. An Online Workbook was created during the project and a print edition has recently been produced.

http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/workbook

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Permanence Through Change: The Variable media Approach

Jean Gagnon is Executive Director, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Montreal. Since its founding, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology has considered the preservation of electronic and digital artworks a pressing matter. But it took some years before we received any project demonstrating a truly innovative approach to this issue. When the Solomon R.

http://variablemedia.net/e/preserving/html/var_pub_index.html

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SCARP Synthesis Study

Shedding light upon the diversity of scientific research is this DCC-commissioned report, based on SCARP and other case studies. Attitudes and approaches to data deposit, sharing, reuse, curation and preservation are investigated across a range of research fields and disciplines.

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