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Lesley J MacRae

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Open research officer and digital preservation enthusiast at the University of Aberdeen. Love libraries, wiki and lego play. Dog lover and confirmed bookwormπŸ“š

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Preserving tomorrow's history today with new digital partnership Books and manuscripts held in the University of Aberdeen's collections date back centuries.

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/

01.10.2025 10:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
View of Liverpool from the Spire building

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!

21.03.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@simonjbains.bsky.social a library copy??

11.12.2024 08:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œA dog’s capacity for happiness is greater than ours. 🐢

β€œAnyone 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

07.12.2024 13:13 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Great to be part of some of these discussions today

26.11.2024 20:44 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing Digital preservation is not keeping up with the growth of scholarly knowledge. Recognizing its causes is the first step to securing records everywhere for future generations.

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...

26.11.2024 17:02 πŸ‘ 653 πŸ” 278 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 20

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

24.11.2024 03:51 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Black Labrador dog with feet on the edge of sofa, staring out of the window at the neighbours

Black Labrador dog with feet on the edge of sofa, staring out of the window at the neighbours

18.11.2024 15:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Great to find resources to help us on our digital preservation journey

07.11.2024 17:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Inspiring interview with Jess Wade, someone who is actually getting shit done. Made me teary πŸ’›

β€œThere’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...

02.10.2023 08:22 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0