Monthly Archives: January 2012

Life should be simple, which means that the process of getting data into a repository should be as simple as possible. If we want real users to upload data we need to give them a flickr type experience. Here’s my … Continue reading →

Data archives can be many things to many people, it all depends what you mean by data. In fact there is no clear agreement as to what constitutes a data archive and what its content is or should be. Datasets … Continue reading →

In a digital archive handling compound objects is complex, but given that all the objects in a particular data set are related, compressing it and storing it as a single object makes a lot of sense. This is exactly the … Continue reading →