Reading about the Foreign Office and the Treasury’s use of YouTube (see http://www.youtube.com/hmtreasuryuk and http://www.youtube.com/user/ukforeignoffice), government department bloggers, use of RSS and Flickr (for example, http://www.flickr.com/photos/foreignoffice/) in the 30 Year Rule Review got me wondering about the use of Web 2.0 services in West Yorkshire’s local authorities.
So I decided to find out! The results of my search [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Web 2.0 in Local Government
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30 year rule, blogs, facebook, Flickr, RSS, Twitter, UK, Web 2.0, YouTube on 26 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Electronic Local Government Records recognised as a “massive challenge” in 30 Year Rule Review
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 30 year rule, digital preservation, digital recordkeeping, local government, NHS, PODs, UK on 17 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Finally got round to reading Lord Dacre’s recently released Review of the 30 Year Rule, the legal arrangements under which central government records are transferred and made available to the public in the UK. This affects West Yorkshire Archive Service (and most other local authority record offices in the England and Wales) as an officially [...]
Digital Lives Conference, British Library
Posted in Research Projects, tagged British Library, Digital Lives, digitallivesconference, personal archives, personal papers, UK on 16 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
All UK local archives hold collections of ‘personal papers’ – diaries, correspondence, working papers and notes scribbled by dignitaries and officials, local people ‘made good’, and even the average person-in-the-street can provide a rich seam of historical content for social history. For many local authority archive services, personal digital archives – perhaps a few floppy disks [...]
