ebooks: what do we care (for)?
Last Friday I ran a workshop at the BL trying to identify what I guess we might call significant properties of ebooks.
SPRUCE Project Award: Northumberland Estates
Help! Digital Repositories
Optimising archival JP2s for the derivation of access copies
Like many other organisations that are using JPEG 2000, the KB produces two representations of most of its digitised content (newspapers, books, periodicals):
Book sprinting with SPRUCE
We are now into the final few months of the SPRUCE Project and we’re beginning to complete some key outputs from the project. A key aim has been to encourage and support digital preservation activity in the UK from both a technical and business perspective. So we wanted to support practitioners in bringing in the funding they need to make preservation happen. To that end, we’ve produced a toolkit that guides them through the process of writing a business case focused on digital preservation:bwFLA Demo – Emulation-based Ingest and Access Workflows
It has been quite some time since the last update of the bwFLA demo instance. Sine then we have significantly improved usability and added a lot of new and hopefully useful features. With a first complete implementation of ingest and workflows it is time to release new version of the bwFLA framework.
Preliminary notes:
ENSURE Architecture
The ENSURE (Enabling kNowledge Sustainability, Usability and Recovery for Economic value) project focuses on the challenges associated with the long-term preservation of data produced by organizations in different sectors, namely health care, clinical trials and finance. A cloud based digital preservation system is in the final stages of development. The following figure shows the architecture of the ENSURE system.