Curation

project: Freeze Frame – Historic Polar Images 1845-1960

Grant Holder:
Freeze Frame is the result of a two-year digitisation project that brings together photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Here you can discover the polar regions through the eyes of those explorers and scientists who dared to go into the last great wildernesses on earth. The Freeze Frame project set out to conserve many of the historical photographic negatives collections held in the Scott Research Polar Institute (SRPI), University of Camnbridge. [read more]

tool: EPrints.org

Purpose: 

A digital repository software package that may be used to accept, manage and publish digital objects. It is widely used in academia as a system to manage academic research papers, electronic theses and other distinct digital resources. EPrints offers an extensible plug-in architecture, enabling data processing activities to be tailored to the requirements of the institution.

Features: 
  • OAI-PMH support
  • Deposit interface for mediated or self-deposit
  • PRONOM integration
  • PLANETS PLATO integration (forthcoming)
  • Dublin Core, EP3-XML, METS, MODS metadata format support
  • Extensible plug-in architecture
A&H use case 1 description: 
The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 (RED) has used EPrints to catalogue information on publications that were read by those living in Britain between 1450-1945.
Creator: 
University of Southampton
Publisher: 
University of Southampton
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Cataloguing and indexing
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Resource sharing
Specifications: 
Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
Perl
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
Dublin Core
EP3-XML
METS
MODS
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
Strategy and project management: 
Curation
Alternate tool(s): 

Fedora Commons, DSpace

Tags: 
preservation
digital repository
institutional repository
oais
eprints
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Ubuntu
Debian
Redhat
Fedora
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Software/programming languages used: 
GNU E-Prints
eprints
By garethknight at Wed, 10/02/2010 - 09:57

project: Early Modern Spain (EMS )

Grant Holder:
In 2004, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities began a pilot project in collaboration with the Department of Spanish and Spanish-American studies at King’s College London to explore the extent to which some of the traditional scholarly research activities associated with an academic department could be represented using an XML-based architecture. [read more]

project: The John Johnson Collection: an Archive of Printed Ephemera

Grant Holder:
The project catalogued, conserved and digitised an extensive selection of materials from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera housed in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. It represented an innovative joint enterprise between the Bodleian Library and ProQuest which resulted in the digitisation of more than 65,000 complete items (well in excess of 150,000 images) from the Collection, accompanied by detailed catalogue records. [read more]

tool: Fedora Commons

Purpose: 

An architectural framework upon which a digital asset management (DAM) may be built. Fedora Commons (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) is widely used in the academic sector as a basis for the creation of an digital library, archive, or repository system. Fedora provides a set of software tools to ingest, manage and deliver digital objects. Fedora Objects may contain many types of information, including descriptive, technical, preservation and relationship metadata.

Features: 
  • Granular object management via implementer-defined content models
  • Data available via Web APIs (REST/SOAP)
  • RDF search (SPARQL)
  • Rebuilder Utility (for disaster recovery and data migration)
  • OAI-PMH Provider Service
  • GSearch (fulltext) Search Service
A&H use case 1 description: 
The East London Theatre Archive (ELTA) implemented a Fedora-based digital repository to store and deliver digitised copies of playbills, press cuttings, photographs and other material held by the V&A Theatre Collection and various East London theatres.
Creator: 
Cornell University, University of Virginia and several third-parties
Publisher: 
Duraspace
Data analysis: 
Indexing
Data structuring and enhancement: 
Cataloguing and indexing
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Resource sharing
Specifications: 
REST/SOAP
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
G-Search
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
publishing
Strategy and project management: 
Curation
Alternate tool(s): 

EPrints.org, DSpace

Tags: 
preservation
digital asset management
digital repository
object
content model
Software/programming languages used: 
Fedora Commons
Platform: 
Java
Licence: 
Apache
By garethknight at Tue, 19/01/2010 - 15:29

project: DARIAH: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

Grant Holder:
Supporting and enhancing digitially enabled research. The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) aims to develop and maintain an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices across the arts and humanities, acting as a trusted intermediary between disciplines and domains. [read more]

project: Digitisation of the South Asian oral history archive

Grant Holder: Dr Kevin Greenbank
The Centre of South Asian Studies won a Resource Enhancement Grant from the AHRC to begin the digitisation of its oral history collections. There are around 300 recordings in this collection, mostly held on audio cassette, with some reel-to-reel tape recordings as well. The project was completed in 2009 - the interviews, transcripts and various search functions are now available on the Centre of South Asian Studies' website. [read more]

project: Virtual Vellum

Grant Holder:
Virtual Vellum is an e Science demonstrator project that has been funded by EPSRC/JISC/Arts & Humanities e-Science Initiative and the UK e Science Core Programme with the aim of promoting and demonstrating the use of technology within arts and humanities research. The aim of the project is to investigate technologies that facilitate the retrieval, manipulation and annotation/hotspotting of very high resolution image datasets (typically greater than 8k x 6k pixels). Each dataset may consist of many hundred images, such as those from digitised manuscripts. [read more]

project: The Online Froissart Project

Grant Holder: Professor PF Ainsworth
The Online Froissart is a joint project based in the French Departments of the Universities of Sheffield and Liverpool. It is delivering an interactive, searchable edition of Books I-III of Jean Froissart's Chronicles, the most important prose history in French of the Hundred Years' War, covering the years 1325-1390. [read more]

project: Palaeopathology and the origins and evolution of horse husbandry

Grant Holder: Professor Graeme Barker
A collaborative, interdisciplinary project, rooted in archaeology and employing veterinary science to identify osteological differences between riding, traction and free-living horses, resulting from their different life-ways, in order to further our understanding of the origins and evolution of horse husbandry. Two analytical methods are employed: 1) A detailed comparative study of skeletons from a wide range of sources, both modern and ancient. We are examining samples from 3 populations of modern horses (free-living Exmoor ponies, Lithuanian draught horses, and riding ponies. [read more]

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