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November 7, 2024
Month 2 project meeting TAGS: API | data library | JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault The Data Vault project is three months long, and is a collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh and Manchester. Due to the short nature of the project, we have decided …Continue reading →
Data Vault storage considerations TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault | metadata The Data Vault service is a system that joins up two sets of storage: fast, expensive, high quality active research storage, and slow, cheap, archival-quality long term storage. The Data …Continue reading →
Describing and Packaging data TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault | metadata The concept of the Data Vault service is to take research data that is no longer being actively used, and to archive it in long-term archival storage. In order to …Continue reading →
Data Vault project kickoff meeting TAGS: #DatsSpring | data vault | JISC | JISC Data Spring | Research Data Last week, members of the Data Vault project got together for the kickoff meeting. Hosted at the University of Manchester Library, we were able to discuss the project plan, milestones …Continue reading →
Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds
My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that...
Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts
My name is Madeleine Reynolds, a fourth year PhD candidate in History of Art....
Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed...
Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...