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¡La varita mágica!

Translation: the digital preservation silver bullet which people keep looking for. Well, as many of us know it doesn’t exist! This was part of my opening speech for the XV Jornadas de la Conferencia de Archiveros de las Universidades Españolas. This is the annual meeting of all Spanish university archivists. I spoke about “El perfil [...]

rpmeet – the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting

Some of us at ULCC, and over 100 other people from around the UK, spent a couple of days this week at the Aston Business School reviewing the outcomes of JISC’s repositories and preservation programme and looking forward to what comes next. It was a useful and stimulating couple of days – the best programme [...]

International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop: public wiki now open

About a month ago (March 15-17) I attended an invitation-only event entitled “An International Repositories Infrastructure Workshop” in Amsterdam. Others have already blogged more contemporaneously about this event, including Chris Rusbridge, Amanda Hill and Jeremy Frumkin. They all provide a good summary of some of what took place, the activities which led up to the [...]

4th International Digital Curation Conference part 3 (idcc4 rides again)

This is the third and final post of mine summing up my notes from the 4th international digital curation conference (now a few weeks ago.) These notes cover the bulk of the second day, which consisted of submitted (as opposed to invited) papers. Most of these were given in parallel tracks, so I’m only able [...]

4th International Digital Curation Conference part 2 (return of idcc4)

My last post from IDCC4 ended with me being unable to report on John Wilbank’s closing keynote on day 1, so I’ll rectify that now with the benefit of handwritten notes and a little more time for reflection. John is working on the Science Commons initiative which, through projects and advocacy, is taking the Creative [...]