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It’s like christmas here at the CRC!
So today I received more toys to play with… In addition to receiving funding to purchase a Kryoflux I was also able to purchase some additional kit to complement our growing forensic workstation. At present our quarantine PC is not backed up through the university’s regular back up procedures owing to the fact that 99% […]
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So today I received more toys to play with… In addition to receiving funding to purchase a Kryoflux I was also able to purchase some additional kit to complement our growing forensic workstation. At present our quarantine PC is not backed up through the university’s regular back up procedures owing to the fact that 99% […]
A few weeks ago – and with some money left in the kitty – I made a pitch to purchase some additional equipment to build on established procedures in place for handling physical media in the collections. At present we have the capacity to capture, quarantine and virus check items on CDs, DVDs, flash storage […]
I started volunteering at the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) a couple of months ago, on the 22nd March 2017. My task has been to audit digital media from various collections, including the Edinburgh College of Art and Moray House School of Education, since these archival materials became part of the CRC following a merger […]
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All you ever wanted to know about how to go about setting up a digital preservation repository, live and as it happens...well almost!
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I'm the Digital Preservation Curator at the University of Edinburgh, based in Special Collections and Archives within the Library and University Collections. My remit is to implement a Digital Preservation repository solution (Digital Strong Room) for the management and preservation of born-digital University records, digitised content and acquired digital and hybrid collections.
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