Registries of Good Practice
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Supporting COPTR, our community-owned tool registry
Andy Jackson is Digital Preservation Specialist at the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Following the re-launch event last week, I wanted to give a summary of the state of the Community-Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR).
Byte Christmas
In what is in danger of becoming a new Christmas tradition, here's a festive message to celebrate the upcoming relaunch of the COPTR tool discovery wiki. I'm dreaming of a byte ChristmasWith all the files I used to knowWhere the JPEGs glisten and WAVs to listenTo hear that voice from long ago I'm dreaming of a byte ChristmasWith every replica I writeMay your GIFs be merry and brightAnd may all your checksums be right I'm...
Version 1.2.0 of the Digital Preservation Publications Index is Live
Andy Jackson is Preservation Registries Technical Architect at the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Last year, the first output from the Registries of Good Practice Project was the first version of the Digital Preservation Publications Index, which focussed on bringing together the proceedings of the iPRES conference series from 2004-2023. Then, just before Christmas, the iPRES 2024 committee helped bring the index up to date (a.k.a. v.1.1.1). Now, the latest...
An Unexpected Gift
WARNING: May Contain Excessive Whimsy. 'Twas the week before Christmas, when all through DPC,not a keyboard was silent, mice glid furiously.With vacation looming, much still to be done,TODO lists to tame; once short, growing long.
Meeting the File Format Challenge
One of my favourite parts of the Digital Preservation Workbench we launched at iPRES 2024 is the 'Format Diversity Estimation'. It's based on the realisation that we could apply approaches from the study of ecological species diversity to the digital format ecosystem, and use them to estimate how many formats are out there awaiting analysis. This matters because identifying the format of digital resources a crucial step towards understanding the information and...
Announcing the First release of the Digital Preservation Workbench
A second prototype service is now available from the Registries of Good Practice project, following on from the release of the Digital Preservation Publications Index in May. The Digital Preservation Workbench brings together a suite of different experimental interfaces and tools, aiming to help improve the practice of digital preservation and to understand what kinds of information systems we really need.
Registration for iPRES 2024 now open
The iPRES 2024 Programme Committee is thrilled to announce that registration for iPRES 2024 is officially open! There are three registration types for you to choose from: In-person attendance Online attendance Monday-only attendance
The Registries of Good Practice Project
What is this project about? The "Registries of Good Practice" Project will explore and develop different approaches to analyze, collate, present and, most importantly, make discoverable the many existing registries and collections of digital preservation good practice. Who is working on this project? This two-year project is a collaboration between the Digital Preservation Coalition and Yale University Library, looking to make the most of our digital preservation registries. For more...
Preservation Registries Special Interest Group
What is the Preservation Registries Special Interest Group? When we're preserving digital content, we rely on a wide range of different kinds of information to guide us and learn from. We can't implement our preservation processes without choosing which tools to use. We can't appraise or preserve access to our digital content if we don't know what format it's in. That's why we rely on format registries like PRONOM, tool registries like COPTR, and many more resources, databases and indexes, or...
Registries of Practice: Goals & Principles
Following on from our earlier announcement, we wanted to go into a bit more detail about the goals of the Registries of Good Practice project, some of the principles that will guide us, and how to get involved.
Registries of Good Practice: New project launched to help practitioners discover digital preservation resources
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Yale University Library have launched a new 2-year project this month, which aims to enhance our digital preservation registry space. Registries of Good Practice will explore and develop different approaches to analyze, collate, present and, most importantly, make discoverable the many existing registries and collections of digital preservation good practice.