On Friday 13th April after five hours travelling by train David, Iain and Graeme of Spoken Word arrived in Hull for the first meeting of the REMAP project.

The REMAP project is based at the University of Hull and its’ aim is to ‘investigate the use of a digital repository to support the embedding of records management and digital preservation within the context of a UK Higher Education institution’.

REMAP is a follow on from the RepoMMan Project which stands for the Repository Metadata and Management project. Repoman aimed to develop a tool that would interact with a Fedora based repository system.

The project has been funded by JISC under the latest JISC capital programme. The capital programme is additional funding from JISC of £81 million over three years to enhance the network infrastructure (SuperJANET 5), to digitise key resources for the academic community, and to support the development of e-learning; e-infrastructure; virtual research environments; users and innovation; and repositories and preservation.

The REMAP project is being led by ESIG (e-Services Integration Group) at the University of Hull. ESIG are also a part of our recently started EDINA led VSM portal project.

Although tired form the long journey David, Iain and Graeme definitely found Hull to have been a rewarding experience.

Photo Courtesy of: Helen K.