The SPRUCE Project ended in November 2013. This page documents the most useful and reusable outputs from the project. It replaces the Old SPRUCE homepage. SPRUCE was a partnership between the University of Leeds SPRUCE aimed to support digital preservation in UK higher education and beyond with a community oriented approach. A draft final report can be viewed here All project outputs are available under open terms (proposed CC-BY-SA These pages are updated by the community. For more information contact Bo Middleton (former SPRUCE Project Director) m dot m dot middleton at leeds dot ac dot uk, or Paul Wheatley |
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Top SPRUCE Outputs
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Digital Preservation Requirements and SolutionsA living archive of digital preservation practice that captures the preservation challenges faced by over a 100 practitioners from Libraries, Archives, Museums, Galleries and other organisations. Use this to understand the kinds of preservation challenges that may be present in your data and find solutions to specific digital preservation challenges that you have encountered. |
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Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit
A comprehensive toolkit to help practitioners and middle managers build business cases to fund digital preservation activities. Use this to guide you through the process of building a business case that will secure funding for your digital preservation work. |
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The Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry (COPTR)
COPTR describes tools useful for preserving digital information for the long term Use this to find preservation tools to solve your preservation challenges. |
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FITS and C3PO preservation tool enhancementsSPRUCE identified a key practitioner need for better characterisation tools Use these tools to assess and understand the characteristics of your digital assets. |
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SPRUCE Award ProjectsThe SPRUCE Project made 12 awards of up to £5k available for further development of the practical digital preservation outcomes and digital preservation business cases, that were begun in SPRUCE events. Use this to discover developments, trials and implementations of SPRUCE supported work. |
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How to run your own digital preservation mashup
A SPRUCE style mashup is a 3 day workshop for around 30 practitioners and developers that provides a way of sharing digital preservation expertise, identifying and understanding preservation challenges and developing preservation solution to those challenges. We've documented our experiences of running these events so that you can run your own mashups with the benefit of what we learned along the way. SPRUCE ran 3 mashups, 1 hackathon and various other events. Also see the The SPRUCE Mashup Manifesto. Use this to learn about the SPRUCE mashup event format, and run your own mashups. |
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Getting Started With Hands on Digital PreservationTaking your first steps in preserving your digital assets can be challenging. What should I tackle first? Which tools should I use? How do they work? This new guide provides step by step instructions to five practical preservation activities:
Use this to guide you through the most common first steps in digital preservation. |
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Collaborative resources for supporting the digital preservation communityWays that you can contribute to the digital preservation community and get even more back. Use this to discover resources created by the community that you can make better. |
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SPRUCE Publications
Formal SPRUCE publications that were presented at conferences. Use this to see and reference write ups of the approaches that SPRUCE pursued. |
Where SPRUCE made an impact on the web and in the literature
- "Digital Preservation: new assessment tools"
, Ed Pinsent on the outputs from a SPRUCE Award Project, 20/11/2013
- "Supporting practical preservation work and making it sustainable with SPRUCE"
, iPRES 2013 Conference, 3/9/2013 (presentation slides
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- "Enhancing characterisation for digital preservation"
(poster), iPRES 2013 Conference
- The Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit
The Signal, NDIIPP/Library of Congress, 26/8/2013
- "Launch of Digital Preservation Business Case Toolkit"
, LIBER website, 14/8/2013
- "Guest Blog: Digital Lifecycles and the Costs of Curation by Paul Wheatley"
4C Guest Blog post
- "...(the advent of OPF), together with projects such as SPRUCE (Sustainable PReservation Using Community Engagement), signals a growing movement towards the development of nationally and internationally based practitioner communities. Agile and enthusiastic, and centred more around community activities such as hackathons,ratherthan traditional project and institutional structures, these have the potential to advance the discipline in new and exciting ways." Practical Digital Preservation
by Adrian Brown, Facet, 2013.
- "Mind the gap: catching digital content before it slips away
, Research Information, February/March 2013.
- "SPRUCE Mashup London
", write up by mashup attendee, Edward Corrado, Code4lib Journal, Issue 19, 15/01/2013
- "Practitioners need better characterisation
", Poster, 8th International Digital Curation Conference
, 15/01/2013
- Mashups and hackathons for museums, libraries and archives professionals
, Software Sustainability Institute, 14/11/2012
- OPF Webinar: Working collaboratively in digital preservation
- SPRUCE-Up for Digital Preservation Community Engagement: An Interview with Paul Wheatley
, The Signal, NDIIPP/Library of Congress, 8/11/2012
- Digital preservation: how are we doing as a community?
, NCDD Blog, 6/10/2012
- “Preservation is knowledge” – or: cRIsp it!
, NCDD Blog, 5/10/2012
- cRIsp: Crowdsourcing Representation Information to Support Preservation
, iPRES 2012 Conference, 3/10/2012
- SPRUCE Project Tackles Digital Preservation Challenges with Hands On Events
, D-Lib Magazine, 05/2012
- Leeds Hackathon: Unified Characterisation
** Event summary: "New characterisation developments from the SPRUCE hackathon"
by Paul Wheatley
- Identifying risks in PDF files: "PDF Eh? - Another Hackathon Tale"
by Pete Cliff
- "SPRUCE Hackathon Leeds: extending C3PO to support Apache Tika"
by Thom Carter
- "SPRUCE Hackathon – File Characterisation"
by Michael Charno
- Identifying risks in PDF files: "PDF Eh? - Another Hackathon Tale"
- London Mashup 2 Event summary: The final SPRUCE digital preservation Mashup: how we got on
** ADS: Our 2nd SPRUCE digital preservation mash-up
Handshake image designed by Michael Erdmann and Project designed by Kevin Laity, both from The Noun Project.