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Volunteering in the Digital Archives – Guest post from Julia Konig
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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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 […]
ArchivematiCamp UK was a 3 day annual conference held at the University of York. It’s purpose is to bring together organisations and institutions who are either interested in using Archivematica for the long term preservation of digital records, or those who are testing or who have Archivematica in a production environment. This year’s camp was […]
I recently attended training on Equality Impact Assessments here at Edinburgh University to enable me to better understand our obligations, under the Equality Act, in the provision of our digital preservation service. The session was thoroughly enlightening and got me thinking much more deeply about how we ensure the methods that we use for discovery […]
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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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