The rising tide of digital research data raises issues relating to access, curation and preservation for Higher Education Inistitutions (HEIs) and within the UK a growing number of research funders are now implementing policies requiring researchers to submit data management, preservation or data sharing plans with their funding applications. This study provides brief overviews of the potential benefits to HEIs …
Presentation given at the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Savannah, GA, November 2008. This presentation describes the creation of PREMIS preservation metadata for the PDPTV project and the experience with different standards with their associated complexity.
This work is aimed at newcomers to the world of audio tape digitisation. It was developed as a training tool for project TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe), which ended in 2008. It describes the workflow from the tapes and machines preparatory to conversion. At each point in the workflow is a list of useful literature references.
This is the report of the JISC digital preservation policies study. This study aims to provide an outline model for digital preservation policies and to analyse the role that digital preservation can play in supporting and delivering key strategies for Higher and Further Education Institutions. Although focussing on the UK Higher and Further Education sectors, the study draws widely on …
This EBU recommendation specifies technical requirements for the transition of analogue audio material in archives to a digital form.
An introduction to DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment), an instrument for digital repository self-assessment. Provides an overview of the benefits and how DRAMBORA fits into the larger context of evaluation tools.
