Finally getting around to posting a little something about the web archiving conference held at the British Library a couple of weeks ago.
From a local archives perspective, it was particularly interesting to hear a number of presenters acknowledge the complexity and cost of implementation and use of currently available web archiving tools. Richard Davis, talking [...]
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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and officials, local people ‘made good’, and even the average person-in-the-street can provide a rich seam of historical content for social history.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 [...]
MLA Yorkshire Archives Accepted for InterPares Project
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Research Projects, tagged Archive-It, digital archives, digital preservation, Digital Preservation Networks, Internet Archive, InterPares, MLA Yorkshire archives, UK, Web Archiving, WYAS on 19 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some exciting news today - the West Yorkshire Archive Service [WYAS] submission to the InterPares 3 Research Project for a case study of the MLA Yorkshire archives has been accepted. MLA Yorkshire, the lead strategic agency for museums, libraries and archives in the region, closes this week (so that live website might not be available for too [...]
E-mail Preservation
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged CERP, Costs, digital preservation, digital recordkeeping, email, email preservation, low cost, North Carolina, small archives, Smithsonian, USA, XML on 10 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lots of interesting work going on at North Carolina State Archives – plenty to read on their electronic records page. One project I’d particularly like to highlight is their work on the preservation of e-mail.
E-mail seems to be one of those types of electronic record about which there’s been lots and lots of discussion about [...]
Preparing for my Churchill Fellowship
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Journal Articles, Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged AONS, Cultural Challenges, Library of Congress, National Library of Australia, NDIIPP, PeDALS, Planets, PLATO, Preservation Planning on 17 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of articles in the most recent edition of the International Journal of Digital Curation caught my eye this week as I prepare for my forthcoming Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship to Australia and the US.
Martha Anderson reviews the evolution of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program initiated by the Library of Congress, [...]
Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets - British Library, 29 July 2008
Posted in Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged Planets, PLATO, Preservation Planning on 29 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This article was written for the Society of Archivists ARC magazine, October 2008
It was pleasing to see a good number of archivists at this event, organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (http://www.dpconline.org/) in conjunction with the European digital preservation research consortium, Planets (http://www.planets-project.eu/). The day was billed as an informal and interactive workshop, allowing [...]
LIFE2 Project Conference, British Library, 26 June 2008
Posted in Research Projects, tagged Costs, LIFE, OAIS, PLATO on 23 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having read through the original LIFE project documentation, I was looking forward to the project conference for the follow-on research, LIFE2. It is all too common, unfortunately, to hear doom-laden rumours being peddled about the supposed high costs of digital preservation, often in contexts where this truism becomes a convenient excuse to avoid addressing [...]
PLATO: Philosophical Preservation Planning
Posted in Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged DPC, Planets, PLATO, Preservation Planning on 12 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A useful sneak preview of the PLATO preservation planning tool, something I’d heard about but not really understood how it might fit in to a practical digital preservation context.
PLATO is designed to help organisations identify, evaluate and select the best preservation methods for individual types of digital object. It is designed to enable experimentation on [...]
