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Digital Preservation to the Core

At Jisc we recently set-up a digital preservation dynamic purchasing system (A DP DPS). Part of the process involved the creation of a “a core set of requirements…” to evaluate digital preservation systems against. In the process we came up against a number of profound questions (including “what is a digital preservation system”… …but that’s […]

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Next steps for practice research: PR Voices and SPARKLE projects

At our latest Digital Research Community monthly discussion meeting we heard from two recently funded AHRC projects aiming to improve access to and preservation of practice research outputs.   Shared goals Across the two projects the shared goal is to establish a national shared digital space for storage, access, analysis and preservation of practice research. For […]

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(Digital) Preservation first

If I was going there, I wouldn’t start from here… A little background (peppered with superlatives and speculation for good measure) … Ever since proto-humans first put marks on a cave wall way back when, producers and creators have been obsessed with preserving their legacy.  Sometimes they got it wrong (Oh Leonardo. Gesso, pitch, and […]