Author Archives: Richard M. Davis

I manage ULCC’s Digital Archives & Repositories Team, contributing to our many and varied projects for archives and libraries in the education and cultural heritage sectors, and managing our repositories service for a growing number of HE institutions.

Projects I’ve had hand in include the National Digital Archive of Datasets for The National Archives, Linnean Online, Transcribe Bentham and SOAS Digital Archive. JISC-funded projects include JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources), Social Networking Extensions for Eprints, Copyright Licensing Applications with SWORD for Moodle. Current projects include innovative repository interfaces, text-mining tools, linked-data applications, and solutions for blog preservation. We also run the highly-acclaimed Digital Preservation Training Programme.

Next Digital Preservation Training Programme in London

We are very pleased to announce that the next Digital Preservation Training Programme will take place on the 14th -16th November 2011, in SOAS, London. The Digital Preservation Coalition is providing three scholarships to attend and applications are invited from DPC members. Full details are available on the DPTP website.

Scanning is different from digitisation

If you haven’t seen it, can I recommend Kristen Snawder’s recent post on the Library of Congress Digital Preservation blog, Digitization is different than digital preservation. Kristen reiterates familiar points about the long-term commitment necessary for serious digital preservation, contrasted with the quick hit of a scanning project. “In the hurry to meet user expectations, [...]

Populating OJS from EPrints

From the SAS Open Journals project blog. Now that a full complement of Amicus Curiae articles has been loaded into the SAS-Space repository, I have been looking at ways to populate the OJS database automatically using the metadata available in the repository. We are fortunate, as ever, that EPrints provides a wide range of export formats [...]

Open Repositories 2011 (Part 1)

Rory and I had a fun, productive and informative time at Open Repositories 2011 in Austin: everyone involved agreed that this year’s OR conference at the University of Texas was a great success. The conference kicked off with a keynote from Jim Jagielski of the Apache Software Foundation, describing the history and organisation behind Apache [...]

Open Repositories 2011 (Part 3): Changing Platforms

To OR11 I took a presentation, jointly with Imma Subirats, from UN FAO in Rome, which we called Changing Platforms. The aim of the presentation was to discuss the subject of migrating repositories between different software platforms. In addition to her work at FAO, Imma is Chief Executive for the E-LIS repository, a major international [...]