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Less Talk, More Code: Modelling and storing a phonetics database inside a store

DataShare — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:34:51 GMT

Ben O'Steen's blog post describing the DISC-UK DataShare project's approach at Oxford to incorporating a dataset type (a phonetics database) into a Fedora repository.

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Preservation and Management Strategies for Exceptionally Large Data Formats: 'Big Data'

DataShare — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:34:56 GMT

This report by the Archaeology Data Service seeks to answer immediate questions regarding cost and to develop recommendations and strategies for archaeologists, researchers, cultural resource managers and archivists dealing with 'Big Data'.

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Digital Preservation Coalition - Press Releases - Digital Preservation Award 2005

DataShare — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:35:40 GMT

"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."

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