Author: Perry Willett

Webinar of "Merritt" repository development

UC3 is developing a new Digital Preservation Repository based on a set of curation micro-services. (We’ve named this development effort “Merritt” after Lake Merritt (http://www.oaklandnet.com/parks/parks/lakemerritt.asp), just a few blocks from our office.) We’ve reached a development milestone, and held a […]

JHOVE2: characterization matters

JHOVE is software used by most digital libraries and repositories to help manage their collections of digital files. First released in 2005, it quickly became an indispensible tool for format characterization and validation. In simple terms, people use JHOVE to […]

iPRES 2009 hosted by CDL

On October 5-6 2009, over 300 people from 22 countries attended iPRES 2009 at the Mission Bay Conference Center on the UCSF Mission Bay campus. iPRES 2009 was the sixth in an annual series of conferences devoted to digital preservation, and with the 300 attendees, the largest ever.