The Preservation Storage Network (2009)
The Preservation Storage Network is a cross platform server and client that enables the construction of a private cloud storage network. The PSN provides a single piece of software which acts much...
Ten Years of Digital Preservation with EPrints (2009)
Tarrant, David, Brody, Tim, Carr, Les
2009 represents the 10th birthday of EPrints and, more importantly, the start of the second decade of EPrints. 10 years of digital preservation is a substantial amount of time and in this...
Digital Preservation: Logical and bit-stream preservation using Plato, EPrints and the Cloud (2009)
Field, Adam, Tarrant, David, Rauber, Andreas, Kulovits, Hannes
The rapid technological changes in today's information landscape have considerably turned the preservation of digital information into a pressing challenge. The aim of an institutional repository has...
Towards repository preservation services. Final report from the JISC Preserv 2 project (2009)
Hitchcock, Steve, Tarrant, David, Carr, Les
Preserv 2 investigated the preservation of data in digital institutional repositories, focussing in particular on managing storage, data and file formats. Preserv 2 developed the first repository...
EPrints Preservation 2010 (2009)
Tarrant, David, Hitchcock, Steve, Carr, Les
Preservation, a core focal area for digital repositories, has become more important with the number of born digital materials increasing by the year. With platforms such as EPrints providing the...
Where the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 meet format risk management: P2 registry (2009)
Tarrant, David, Hitchcock, Steve, Carr, Les
The Web is increasingly becoming a platform for linked data. This means making connections and adding value to data on the Web. As more data becomes available and more people are able to use the...
Desktop, Web & Cloud Integration Workshop (2009)
4th International Conference on Open Repositories
The KeepIt Project - Kultur, eCrystals, EdShare (and NECTAR) - Preserve It! (2009)
Tarrant, David, Hitchcock, Steve
KeepIt! A JISC project to enable a diverse range of digital content presented by institutional repositories - research papers, science data, arts, teaching materials and theses - to be managed...
The KeepIt Project - Kultur, eCrystals, EdShare (and NECTAR) - Preserve It! (2009)
Hitchcock, Steve, Tarrant, David
4th International Conference on Open Repositories
From the Desktop to the Cloud: Leveraging Hybrid Storage Architectures in Your Repository (2009)
Brody, Tim, Carr, Leslie A., Tarrant, David
4th International Conference on Open Repositories
From the Desktop to the Cloud: Leveraging Hybrid Storage Architectures in Your Repository (2009)
Tarrant, David, Brody, Tim, Carr, Leslie
4th International Conference on Open Repositories
Tarrant, David, O'Steen, Ben, Brody, Tim, Hitchcock, Steve, Jefferies, Neil, Carr, Les
In the digital age libraries are required to manage large numbers of diverse objects. One advantage of digital objects over fixed physical objects is the flexibility of ‘binding’ them into...
From the Desktop to the Cloud: Leveraging Hybrid Storage Architectures in your Repository (2009)
Tarrant, David, Brody, Tim, Carr, Les
Repositories collect and manage data holdings using a storage device. Mainly this has been a local file system, but recently attempts have been made at using open storage products and cloud storage...
David Tarrant, Ben O'Steen, Tim Brody, Steve Hitchcock, Neil Jefferies, Leslie Carr
In the digital age libraries are required to manage large numbers of diverse objects. One advantage of digital objects over fixed physical objects is the flexibility of 'binding' them into...
David Tarrant, Ben O'Steen, Tim Brody, Steve Hitchcock, Neil Jefferies, Leslie Carr
In the digital age libraries are required to manage large numbers of diverse objects. One advantage of digital objects over fixed physical objects is the flexibility of 'binding' them into...
Preservation as a Process of a Repository (2008)
Tarrant, David, Hitchcock, Steve
In a world of born digital material, preservation of this content is being realised as important for the future of academic research. Many institutions already have electronic repositories containing...
EPrints and Preservation (December 2008) (2008)
Tarrant, David, Carr, Les, Hitchcock, Steve
Digital repositories have been seen for many years as an enabler to gathering and preserving academic research. More recently it has been realised that the task of preserving digital materials is...
Towards smart storage for repository preservation services (2008)
Hitchcock, Steve, Tarrant, David, Brown, Adrian, O’Steen, Ben, Jefferies, Neil, Carr, Les
The move to digital is being accompanied by a huge rise in volumes of (born-digital) content and data. As a result the curation lifecycle has to be redrawn. Processes such as selection and evaluation...
Applying Open Storage to Institutional Repositories (2008)
Tarrant, David, O'Steen, Ben, Hitchcock, Steve, Jefferies, Neil, Carr, Les
Repository interoperability and the capability to support preservation can be enhanced by introducing a storage layer that is independent of repository software. Institutional Repositories (IRs) are...
Releasing the Power of Digital Metadata: Examining Large Networks of Co-Related Publications (2008)
Tarrant, David, Carr, Les, Payne, Terry
Bibliographic metadata plays a key role in scientific literature, not only to summarise and establish the facts of the publication record, but also to track citations between publications and hence...
Releasing the Power of Digital Metadata: Examining Large Networks of Co-Related Publications (2008)
Tarrant, David, Carr, Les, Payne, Terry
Bibliographic metadata plays a key role in scientific literature, not only to summarise and establish the facts of the publication record, but also to track citations between publications and hence...
From open storage to smart storage: enabling EPrints repository preservation (2008)
EPrints, the first software for building institutional repositories, has recently been focussing on user-centred developments (ref. Carr, PASIG, Paris, 2007), for example, improving metadata quality...
Quentin Cronk, Fred R. Ganders, Daniel J. Hinkley, Carolyn Jones, Lyn Noble, ...
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