Author Archives: Ed Pinsent

Every man his own modified digital object

Today we’ve just completed our Future-Proofing study at ULCC and sent the final report to the JISC Programme Manager, with hopes of a favourable sign-off so that we can publish the results on our blog. It was a collaboration between myself and Kit Good, the records manager here at UoL. We’re quite pleased with the [...]

Digital Forensics and creation of a narrative

I was very interested to hear Jeremy Leighton John speaking about the nature of digital forensics at the recent DPC event on Digital Forensics. He worked on the “Digital Lives” project at the BL as part of their eManuscripts lab. The day began with his overview and ended with the demo of a powerful analysis [...]

A Tab in the Ocean

I’ve been using Web Curator Tool (WCT) to curate the JISC website collection at UKWA since 2008. I’ve long been aware that the system offered me the opportunity to record a lot of metadata, in tabs called General, Annotations, Groups and Access. It’s a mix of technical metadata (about the gather / website) and descriptive [...]

DPTP at the NAS – legal admissibility

We recently gave a two-day version of the Digital Preservation Training Programme to the National Archives of Scotland. Our timing was quite interesting; we arrived on the Monday the week after NAS had merged with the General Register Office, to become a new body called the National Records of Scotland. And just days before, the [...]

AIDA for the IDMP

This year I devised a tailored version of the AIDA assessment toolkit, which I hope is become something fit to be applied to the management of research data. This has made AIDA into something better, but my wider task is to contribute to an all-purpose Integrated Data Management Planning toolkit which is being developed by [...]