Bits and Pieces
Artefactual
ArchivematiCamp 2016
This year Artefactual organised their inaugural user conference, ArchivematiCamp, kindly hosted by the University of Michigan, School of Information in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The event ran from August 24th – 26th and was open to any organisation/institution that was either using, or thinking of using, Artefactual’s digital preservation system, Archivematica. Both myself and my colleague, […]
UK Archivematica User Group (March 2016)
Yesterday I attended the UK Archivematica User Group meeting, hosted by Jenny Mitcham at the University of York. Our group, which is open to any individual or institution who is actively using, exploring or testing Archivematica, now has some 47 members so it’s exciting and encouraging to know that this system is getting such great […]
I knew you were waiting (for me) – Archivematica and CentOS
Following on from extensive testing and evaluation we are now in a position to seriously begin work to develop a functioning digital preservation system. However, as we all know, the path to happiness is rarely paved. A minor stumbling block we recently came across was that we, as an institution, aim to ensure that there […]
Archivematica – you’re the one that I want!
Well, after a period of extended leave I’m back online again and have a new series of practical and theoretical posts planned for 2016 that will keep you up to speed with our digital preservation project. To kick start this I’d like to honour my promise to give a review of Archivematica, as discussed in […]
Interested in Archivematica?
I can hardly believe we’re almost half way through January already! The strong winds of late seem to be blowing the days away…however work at Edinburgh continues unabated. I was fortuitous enough to be a part of a recent meeting of institutions interested in/or playing around with Archivematica, a free and open source digital preservation […]
