Defensive Design: Developing a System-Agnostic Repository for Sustainable Long-Term Preservation

Colenda, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries’ digital repository, was designed to promote longterm preservation. Its infrastructure is comprised of components selected to concentrate on factors that are of the most importance and that pose the greatest risks for long-term preservation of digital assets: safe file storage, the ability to track changes to objects over time, mechanisms for object management and discoverability, and migration paths that guarantee that objects can be safely migrated to new software and new versions of existing systems while preventing data loss. Favoring a pluggable architecture and preservation of software-agnostic representations of objects in order to keep future repository development plans flexible and open, our approach minimizes the risk of data loss in the long term and has allowed us to design a system in which the right tools for the task are always an option. In this paper, we will enumerate the risks/concerns influencing our design decisions and show how our approach addresses them while retaining a connection to the central open-source projects of the community, Fedora and Samvera, that make up significant portions of our stack

Uncomplicating the business of repositories

In this presentation, we discuss how our library runs our repository in production to meet the needs of our “business” as efficiently as possible. We have an interest in limiting the number of digital platforms we manage, for the purposes of sustainability and efficiency, but we must also consider how well a general platform can meet specific user needs. A governance group of administrators, in conference with stakeholders and developers, seeks to find the best way to accommodate each collection or functional need, with an eye to minimizing technical complexity, offering stakeholders self-serve options when possible, and maintaining a single canonical copy of each object. We will present some case studies of how material has been handled in our developing digital ecosystem, where preservation and access sometimes present conflicting priorities. We are exploring how our repository can best evolve to support our aims of making data and documents freely available

Conflicts and triage

To represent diverse interests successfully, a strategy for dealing with conflicts is needed. We discuss an approach to maximizing the interests of the greatest number of individuals, present and future

The ISCIP Analyst, Volume V, Issue 10

This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy

Factors associated with the successful removal of indwelling urinary catheters post-operatively in the fragility hip fracture patient

Introduction Patients presenting to hospital with a fragility hip fracture are routinely catheterized in the emergency department. Studies have found that the duration of catheterization is the greatest and most important risk factor for developing a urinary tract infection. Whilst there is a considerable body of evidence around correct techniques for insertion of urinary catheters, there appears to be little evidence as to the timing of their removal. Aim of the study To describe the current practice of indwelling catheter (IDC) removal post operatively in the fragility hip fracture patient and to identify factors associated with the successful removal of IDCs post operatively in the same cohort of patients. Methods This study was a retrospective cohort analysis of patients admitted to a large, tertiary hospital with an established ortho-geriatric model of care. Results Aperient regime was the only factor that appeared to have a significant impact on the successful IDC removal. The patient commenced on the aperient regime was three times more likely to have an unsuccessful IDC removal than the patient on a limited or no aperient regime. Conclusion This study highlights the need for redesigning care that is patient focused, evidence-based, effective and efficient. The argument that a patient's bowel is required to be emptied prior to the successful removal of an IDC appears to be false, as in this study it was not identified as a predictor of successful IDC removal. A prospective clinical trial may be the next step forward in developing a clinical guideline for the successful removal of IDCs in the fragility hip fracture patient and/or surgical patient. Nurses have a crucial role to play in contributing to evidence-based practice and are continually challenged to do so

The ISCIP Analyst, Volume XII, Issue 1

This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy

The ISCIP Analyst, Volume XI, Issue 4

This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy

The ISCIP Analyst, Volume XII, Issue 2

This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy