DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 12 2007 | preservation, project, formats, DPC
"An innovative tool to analyse and identify computer file formats has won the 2007 Digital Preservation Award. DROID, developed by The National Archives in London, can examine any mystery file and identify its format. The tool works by gathering clues from the internal 'signatures' hidden inside every computer file, as well as more familiar elements such as the filename extension (.jpg, for example), to generate a highly accurate 'guess' about the software that will be needed to read the file."
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - May 12 2008 | social science data, preservation, project
The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a broad-based partnership devoted to identifying, acquiring and preserving data at-risk of being lost to the social science research community. Examples of at-risk data include opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys on family growth and income, and many other social science studies....
- DataShare | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 16 2007 | research data, qualitative data, ESRC, project, preservation
Timescapes project, funded by ESRC, led by Leeds with Qualidata and Edinburgh and other partners. About archiving and sharing longitudinal qualitative data, with an emphasis on secondary analysis of qualitative data.
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