Part of our mission to make scholarship available has to include making sure those works can technically be accessed into the future. So, we're excited to announce a new partnership with @jisc.bsky.social and Libnova for long term preservation of our digital archives www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24712/
View of Liverpool from the Spire building
So glad I stayed till the end of #RLUK25. A fantastic week with fantastic people in a very sunny and picturesque Liverpool!
@simonjbains.bsky.social a library copy??
“A dog’s capacity for happiness is greater than ours. 🐶
“Anyone can take delight in the super-positive. But taking delight in the marginally positive, that is something dogs do best.” 🐾
Professor Mark Rowlands, author of The Happiness of Dogs, writes. ⬇️
https://buff.ly/4fVzdQa
Great to be part of some of these discussions today
My work features prominently in a Nature editorial today. Great to see digital preservation being taken seriously.
"Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Digital Preservationist: we’ll need to migrate the cup to a new format before we can use it and don’t get me started on the lack of metadata to find the cup in the first place
Black Labrador dog with feet on the edge of sofa, staring out of the window at the neighbours
Great to find resources to help us on our digital preservation journey
Inspiring interview with Jess Wade, someone who is actually getting shit done. Made me teary 💛
“There’s a whole community of us, of outspoken people who are really proactive about changing academia. And it’s not a small group. It’s big.”
www.theguardian.com/science/2023...