Tag Archives: PRIMO

Open Access and Repositories in the Arts

On Tuesday I spent an interesting day at the British Academy discussing Open Access and Repositories in the Arts. The event was organised by the Repositories Support Project (RSP) and ably hosted by Bill Hubbard and Dominic Tate. I gave a short presentation on PRIMO; other projects covered included KULTUR (Andrew Gray from University of [...]

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 [...]

PRIMO: New version taking shape

The PRIMO Steering Committee met last week to discuss next steps towards the launch of the final version. There will be quite a few changes from the current beta version. Many of these are the result of Professor Katharine Ellis’s extensive advocacy and consultation, among both the musical research community, who will be the system’s [...]

PRIMO pilot launch

PRIMO (Performance as Research in Music Online) was launched at Senate House last Friday (26th October) to an invited group of music researchers. Katharine Ellis gave an excellent explanation of the repository’s purpose, which is to provide a Trusted Repository for audio-visual records of musical research-in-practice. I followed on with a brief demo. Katharine and [...]