AHDS Reports on Preservation
Reports from research the AHDS and others have undertaken on preservation issues.
CURL Documents | Digital Repositories | E-Prints | E-learning objects | Preservation Workshop
Digital Repositories Review - February 2005
Sheila Anderson, Arts and Humanities Data Service
Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Digital Repositories Programme initiated a programme of work to assist deployment of digital repositories within the learning and research communities. This review was intended to provide useful background information for participants in this call. The review was not intended to be comprehensive, the intention is to identify useful areas of activity for the programme rather than to prescribe activity in detail.
The methodology of the review has been:
- to undertake a selective review of current activity
- to interview stakeholders by phone and in person
- to hold a focus group of key stakeholders
- to survey by an e-mail questionnaire selected repository software developers
- to undertake a gap analysis
The recommendations made by this report are based both on a review of current activity and on contacts made with a number of interested parties. A gap analysis has been reported within a separate section focusing on feedback from the focus group, survey and interviews.
More information on the JISC-funded Digital Repositories Programme is available on the JISC website
Why Preserve Digital Assets? - an AHDS Presentation - November 2005
Slides from Andrew Wilson's presentation to the University of London Computer Centre conference on Digital Asset Preservation.
Why Preserve Digital Assets? - March 2004 - PPT version (2041KB) | RTF version (24KB)
Feasibility Study into the Preservation of E-Prints - March 2004
Feasibility Study into the Preservation of E-Prints - March 2004 - PDF version (991KB) | RTF version (1,665KB)
Report on a Deposit Licence for E-Prints (part of the Sherpa project), by Gareth Knight (AHDS), June 2004 - HTML version
Hamish James, Arts and Humanities Data Service
Raivo Ruusalepp, Estonian Business Archives
Sheila Anderson, Arts and Humanities Data Service
Stephen Pinfield, SHERPA, University of Nottingham
Gareth Knight, Arts and Humanities Data Service
Carried out in 2003 by a consortium of AHDS, SHERPA (University of Nottingham) and Estonian Business Archives.
The Requirements and Feasibility Study on Preservation of E-Prints provides recommendations for further research and for the development of services and tools to support the long-term preservation of UK e-print content, in the context of the JISC Information Environment (IE) and the JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy 2002-5 (Beagrie, 2002).
More information on Requirements and Feasibility Study on Preservation of e-prints is available from the JISC website
Long-term Retention and Reuse of E-Learning Objects and Materials - March 2004
Long-term Retention and Reuse of E-Learning Objects and Materials - March 2004 - PDF version (300KB) | RTF version (1,205KB)
Carried out in 2003-04 by a partnership of the AHDS and the ICBL (Institute for Computer Based Learning) at Heriot-Watt University. The project was lead by the ICBL
Ed Barker, Institute for Computer Based Learning
Hamish James, Arts and Humanities Data Service
Gareth Knight, Arts and Humanities Data Service
Colin Milligan, Institute for Computer Based Learning
Malcolm Polfreman, Arts and Humanities Data Service
Roger Rist, Institute for Computer Based Learning
This study was commissioned by JISC to examine the challenges which will affect the retention and re-use of learning objects and materials, and to make recommendations to JISC on how best to develop its e-learning and digital preservation activities to address these challenges. The focus is on the creation and re-use of e-learning objects, the interoperability issues within current learning systems, and the requirements for storage of materials in digital repositories. The findings and recommendations of this study are intended to offer JISC and institutions assistance in their considerations of learning objects and materials as a new collecting area.
Preservation Workshop - November 2003
Details and slides from a Preservation Workshop, jointly hosted with UKOLN, November 2003
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