Edinburgh Digital Preservation Roadshow, November 2009

Just a quick place-marking type post to point people towards the presentation slides from today’s Edinburgh Digital Preservation Roadshow, particularly those from Jane Brown on the National Archive of Scotland’s Digital Data Archive.  NAS has written an in-house workflow tool for ingest in .NET, and, interestingly, are proposing to follow the Australians in an up-front [...]

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TNA Web Archive

Spotted in TNA’s web archive as I was preparing a presentation earlier this week.  What happens if you are still viewing the archived site at 5.01pm*, I wonder?

* hint , look at the restrictions on use!

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Washington State Digital Archives

This was my most challenging (in a thought-provoking way) visit so far. The Washington State (upper left hand corner of the US, for those whose geography is as hazy as mine was!!) Digital Archives doesn’t seem to be terribly well known in the UK, and I’d certainly recommend colleagues have a look at their [...]

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Archive-It!

Probably the best posting I can make on the Internet Archive, based in San Francisco, is to encourage colleagues to have a look at their Archive-It subscription service, and perhaps attend a free webinar about the tool (details on the site) or at least have a look through some of the collections from partner institutions [...]

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National Archives of Australia Digital Archives

What can local archive services learn from a national archives? Rather than go through the National Archives of Australia’s Digital Archives workflow in detail, as I did for PROV (in any case it is well documented here), I thought I’d pick out some specific details which could be useful for those of us working [...]

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National Library of Australia – Digital Manuscripts

The position of the manuscripts collection within NLA is in many ways analogous to the current position vis-a-vis digital arcives in UK local archive services:
The department has a collecting remit with private donors and organisations of national significance to Australia. This includes literary figures, people involved in the performing arts and some politicians.
In the [...]

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PANDORA Web Archive

The National Library of Australia (NLA) began their web archiving project, PANDORA, in 1996, and the current team consists of four members of staff. The NLA’s web archiving programme is selective, contrasting with approaches in the Scandinavian countries in particular where the aim has been to harvest the entirety of the country’s web domain. [...]

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Public Record Office of Victoria (3)

Operating the Digital Archive
As previously posted, the operation of the PROV Digital Archive is well integrated into the wider organisation, with the same team responsible for transfers of both paper and digital records. This team also creates the disposal authorities (more commonly known as ‘retention schedules’ in the UK – is the different terminology [...]

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Public Record Office of Victoria (2)

Archival Support Programme
There are an estimated six to seven hundred places in the State of Victoria which hold archive collections, about 120 of which are recognised as Places of Deposit by PROV. PODs in this Australian context are “community facilities that meet the storage standards [...]

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Public Record Office of Victoria Digital Archive (1)

Developing the Digital Archive at PROV
Australian archival theory emphasises the continuum of recordkeeping, with good records management seen as the core foundation of archival practice. This continuity is well illustrated by the Digital Archive project at the Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV).
Funding for the development of the Digital Archive was won on the [...]

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