COPTR: It's short for "Making my Thursday much easier"
This is a guest post from Nathan Williams, Archives Assistant. For four days of a working week I can largely be found on the front desk of the Borthwick Institute assisting people with their research, fetching up documents within our vast holdings, and assisting people with interpreting the materials they have in front of them. Part of the role of an Archives Assistant is one of providing researchers with the tools of discovery. On the fifth day of a working week I don a different cap altogether, for on Thursday I head on up to Jen Mitcham’s office to help with a different challenge altogether: digital preservation. So it was somewhat of a pleasant surprise when I received an email circulated through the jisc-digital-preservation list regarding the beta launch of COPTR or the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry . Ok, so my title is silly, but here’s why it really should stand for “Making my Thursday much easier”: As an institutional repository with strong University, Re