Data Creators

Archiving, distribution and preservation of language corpora

Chapter 6 of 'Developing Linguistic Corpora', in the series of Guides to Good Practice from the Arts and Humanities Data Service. This chapter focusses on planning for and creating a sustainable electronic resource. Functionality:  Online HTML book, unrestricted access. Level of Expertise:  This guide is for researchers who are creating or using electronic corpora, and for curators of language resources.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/guides/linguistic-corpora/chapter6.htm
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AV Digitisation and Storage GuideStorage Guide

Web site for archive owners and the public alike, which provides first point-of-call for information on audiovisual storage. The site provides information and management tools on digital technology for the storage of film, video and audio content and associated metadata.
http://prestospace-sam.ssl.co.uk/
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CRiB (Conversion and Recommendation of Digital Object Formats)

The CRiB is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) designed to assist cultural heritage institutions in the implementation of migration-based preservation interventions. The CRiB system works by assessing the quality of distinct conversion applications or services to produce recommendations of optimal migration strategies. The recommendations produced by the system take into account the specific preservation requirements of each client institution.
http://crib.dsi.uminho.pt/
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e-Science for the Arts and Humanities: a Discussion Paper

The e-Science programme has arisen because of the increasing pressure in dealing with the escalating volume of data produced by scientists, both in information gathering exercises and through experiments. Scientists are working with computing scientists to find innovative ways of managing and integrating these data volumes, largely funded through what is known as the e-Science programme. The programme is global with funding provided on a national basis.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/e-science-discussion-2004.pdf
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Preserv Project - Preservation Eprints Services

Preserv (now Preserv 2, since it is in its second phase of funding) is a JISC project investigating and developing infrastructural digital preservation services for institutional repositories. Project partners are Southampton University, The National Archives, The British Library and Oxford University. Functionality:  An ingest service based on the OAIS reference model for institutional archives built using EPrints software.
http://preserv.eprints.org/
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E-Science (E-Research) Expert Seminar: Report on Proceedings

The AHRB e-science policy seminar aimed to identify the role that the outputs from the e-science programme and grid technologies might play in supporting arts and humanities research and teaching. The seminar was held on the 28th April at Senate House in London. The seminar comprised a small gathering of scholars from the arts, the humanities, computing science, and information science who are experts in their field, with an excellent understanding of the use and potential of ICT in scholarly research and communication.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/e-science-seminar-2004.pdf
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Archiving the Avant Garde

Documenting and preserving digital/variable media art. It has two case studies/related project 'Renewing the Erl King' and 'Preserving the Rhizome ArtBase'.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about/avantgarde
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Choosing a Metadata Standard For Resource Discovery

Resource discovery metadata is an essential part of any digital resource. If resources are to be retrieved and understood in the distributed environment of the World Wide Web, they must be described in a consistent, structured manner suitable for processing by computer software. There are now many formal standards. They range from simple to rich formats, from the loosely structured to the highly structured, and from proprietary, emerging standards, to international standards.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/briefings/briefing-63/html/
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Report from the A.L.T. 2005 Research Seminar

The Association for Learning Technology is pleased to announce the publication of a report from the 2005 Research Seminar: Reflective learning, future thinking [external]. The report covers developments in e-portfolios, digital repositories, ubiquitous computing and informal learning. A.L.T. is grateful for the support for the spring conference received from the JISC. Both days featured projects supported or commissioned by the JISC.
http://www.alt.ac.uk/docs/ALT_SURF_ILTA_white_paper_2005.pdf
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OSSWatch CDs

OSSWatch, the Jisc funded Open Source advisory service, have just released two new CDs to promote awareness of Open Souce software. The first is the Knoppix 4.02. Knoppix is a Linux LiveCD, which means that you put it in the CD-ROM drive of your PC, reboot, and you will have a usable Linux desktop environment that you can explore. The CD also contains running versions of the Moodle and Boddington VLEs. The second disk is TheOpenCD. TheOpenCD is a collection of open source software that runs on the Windows operating system. All of the programs are ready to install.
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/
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