Software

OPF Webinar: Securing funding for your digital preservation, with SPRUCE

Making the case to your organisation’s management, or to external funders, to adequately resource your digital preservation activities is not an easy task. Digital preservation is not always a straightforward sell. In this financial climate the justification for spending money has to be compelling and watertight. In this webinar Paul Wheatley will describe how to make the case for funding your digital preservation, with reference to the SPRUCE Project’s Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit.

* Making a compelling case to fund digital preservation
* The Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit from SPRUCE
* Getting started
* Other resources

There are twenty-five places available on a first come, first serve basis. Registration is now open to OPF members.

Date: 
27 November 2013
Event Types: 
Webinar

SCAPE/OPF Continuous Integration update

 

As previously blogged about by Carl we now have virtually all SCAPE and OPF projects in Continuous Integration; building and unit testing in both Travis CI and Jenkins.

  • Travis compiles the projects and executes unit tests whenever a new commit is pushed to Github, or when a pull request is submitted to the project.
  • Jenkins builds are generally scheduled once per day. After a build the software has its code quality analysed by Sonar
Submitted by William Palmer on 1 November 2013 – 10:19am

Fund it, Solve it, Keep it (with SPRUCE)

How to fund and solve your digital preservation challenges

What will the event do for me?

This event will help to make your digital preservation more effective by demonstrating the best community focused approaches and results from the JISC funded SPRUCE Project. You’ll be hearing from the SPRUCE Team experts and from the practitioners and developers who have been tackling digital preservation challenges in targeted SPRUCE Award projects. We’ll also be hearing from you, so we can take on board what you need from our future work.

  • If you’re taking your first steps in preserving your digital assets we will demonstrate how to get started, where to get help, and how to make the case to resource your work more effectively.
  • If you’re already engaged in digital preservation we’ll show how your efforts can be supported more effectively with help from the community.

Key topics we will be covering include:

  • Securing funding for your digital preservation activities with the Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit
  • Community approaches to solving digital preservation challenges
  • SPRUCE guides on how to assess your digital collections
  • Stabilising data stored on obsolete hand-held media
  • Results from the SPRUCE Award Projects

Who is this for?

Practitioners, developers and middle managers who are engaged (or would like to be engaged) in preserving their organisation’s digital assets.

When, where and how do I register?

The free event will take place at 11am on the 25th November at the brand new Library of Birmingham. Register your attendance here. Please note that anyone who registers for the event and then fails to attend without giving at least one week of notice will be liable for a £50 cancellation charge. Places are limited, so please don’t waste them!

Date: 
25 November 2013
Event Types: 
Conference
Link: 
Event information

Dissimilar: an experimental Image Quality Assurance tool

 

An important part of image file format migration is quality assurance. Various tools can be used such as ImageMagick or Matchbox, but they only provide one metric or are for different use-cases. I wanted to investigate implementation of image comparison algorithms so began investigating.

Submitted by William Palmer on 17 July 2013 – 12:50pm

Survey on Software Usage and Discovery

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Jisc would like to invite you to take part in a survey on how you discover and use software in a work-related context. Findings from this survey will help us to better understand problems that the higher and further education sectors face in this area and what Jisc and its partner organisations might do to help.

Submitted by Neil Grindley on 20 June 2013 – 11:06am

Webinar – C3PO, an introduction to content profiling

This webinar will focus on content profiling and preservation planning. It aims to address the following questions:

  • Why do we need identification and characterisation?
  • How can we use the metadata that these processes provide?

It will cover some of the tools that are available and there will be a demonstration of C3PO (Clever, Crafty, Content Profiling of Objects) tool, and an explanation of how you can analyse the metadata it produces.

Session Lead: Petar Petrov, Creative Pragmatics

Time: 13:00 BST / 14:00 CET

Register at: http://opf-c3po.eventbrite.co.uk/

Date: 
31 May 2013
Event Types: 
Webinar
Link: 
Webinar registration

Developing in the Open

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This is my first, long overdue blog post since starting my new role as Software Configuration Manager for OPF at the start of the year. Truth be told that between the SCAPE end of year and review, a weeks holiday, and working out what to do it doesn’t feel like four months since I started. I’m the OPF’s first full time technical team member and will be dividing my time between:

Submitted by Carl Wilson on 8 May 2013 – 9:12am