Welcome to the 80GB Blog!
This blog is written by Alexandra Eveleigh, Collections Manager at West Yorkshire Archive Service [WYAS] in the UK.
WYAS’s purpose is “to preserve the county’s heritage of historical documents and to help members of the public make use of them.” The Service collects and preserves historical records of all kinds dating from the twelfth century to the present day. Increasingly, the kinds of kind of material which we think will be interesting to future historians of the present are created in digital formats.
The problem of how to preserve digital archives over the long-term is a global issue with an international research base. There are few ‘right’ answers. This blog documents my personal journey in investigating international approaches to the curation and preservation of digital materials, and looks at how these solutions might apply to the context of a UK local authority record office.
The blog began when I was awarded two travelling scholarships during 2008: from the Society of Archivists‘ to attend the DELOS Summer School in Tirrenia, Italy, and a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to travel to Australia and the USA to research operational digital archives, particularly those in regional or local settings. I continue to post on relevant initiatives in digital curation research and development, with a specific interest in how these may apply and scale to a local government setting.
The views expressed here are my own and are not necessarily those of West Yorkshire Archive Service.
And finally, all posts and content on this blog are licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence, except where otherwise indicated. Comments posted to this blog will also have the same licence.
G’DAY from Nick in Victoria Australia Grad student in Library and information studies. Just wanted to say thanks for the info on PROV. My hometeam I guess but your little piece on them was excellent. Regards Nick.
Thanks for your nice comment. I very much enjoyed my trip to Melbourne, but PROV was the first place I visited during my Fellowship and I felt I would have made more of it had it come later in my itinerary. I was also new to blogging at the time and tried to write up too much, I think. But I had to start somewhere I suppose! I am glad you found it useful. Good luck with your studies.