Periodicals Archive Online – additional titles available TAGS: American | Architecture | area studies (African | Art History | Asian | book history | Canadian | classics | Cultural Studies | e-journals | Economics | education | European languages | fashion | Geography | health and medicine | history | history of science and medicine | Indian | international studies | Irish) | JISC | Law | Literature | Periodicals Archive Online | Philosophy | Political Science | ProQuest | science and technology | Sociology | theology | women's and children's studies Thanks to funding from JISC Collections, we have access to 50 archival e-journals in the humanities and social sciences subject areas.  These e-journals are available on the ProQuest website and …Continue reading →

UK Archivematica User Group (March 2016) TAGS: Archivematica | Artefactual | Bentley Historical Library | Bitcurator | Exactly | JISC | ownCloud 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 …Continue reading →

Project makeover TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Vault Now that the Data Vault project has received second round finding, we thought it was time for a makeover! We’ve been working hard with our designers, and now have a …Continue reading →

Data Vault receives round 2 funding! TAGS: JISC | JISC Data Vault We’re pleased to announce that following the second round of project pitching in London on the 13th and 14th of July, the Data Vault project has been awarded further funding. …Continue reading →

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 →

AAAS/Science Classic now available TAGS: AAAS | e-journal archive | JISC | Science Classic Jisc has partnered with AAAS to provide institutions of higher and further education in the United Kingdom with sitewide access to Science Classic, the digital archives of Science (1880-1996). Science …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 →

Lets talk about…policy TAGS: adrian brown | catalogue of policy elements | governance | JISC | library of congress | policy Last week I was invited to speak at the Digital Preservation Coalition event, ‘Making Progress in Digital Preservation’ on digital preservation policy (follow the Twitter chat). Not being one to …Continue reading →