Last week I goaded a couple of male colleagues into posting a (deliberately provocative) thread on the archives2.0 ning forum linking the high proportion of women in the archives profession (at least this is the case in the UK) with a slow take-up of web2.0 technologies. From the ensuing discussion, it appears nobody really agrees [...]
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Women and the history of computing in West Yorkshire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged history of computing, West Yorkshire, women, WRCC on 31 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Society of Archivists Digital Preservation Roadshows
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged digital archives, MLA Yorkshire archives, UK on 30 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d also failed to get round to a posting about the Society of Archivists’ Digital Preservation Roadshows, which I’ve helped to organise. These are being run around the UK and Ireland by the Society of Archivists in partnership with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), The National Archives, the Planets project and Cymal.
The events aim [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
80GB in Yorkshire’s National Newspaper
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged digital archives, digital preservation, media coverage, Yorkshire on 6 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m quite pleased with the article in the Yorkshire Post today – even the things I didn’t say aren’t too far wrong! Unfortunately they’ve mixed up the picture on the online version with the wrong caption, although one of my colleagues is captivated by the idea that when you open up your computer you’ll find [...]
Sustainable Preservation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Australia, National Library of Australia on 23 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One noteworthy factor about several of the digital preservation initiatives I’m visiting during my Churchill Fellowship is how each approach is underpinned by a certain philosophical world view.
For NLA, a key challenge for the digital preservation community is sustainability:
The community needs to know as much about routes which haven’t worked as those which have.
How do [...]
Inspiring the young with the old – Bletchley Park
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged computing museums on 9 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some interesting comments from senior figures at IBM and PGP reported today following the announcement of a US$100,000 donation to the UK National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.
As I have looked at how computing history and computing museums might stimulate an interest in digital preservation issues, so this money has been donated in the [...]
Muse(um)-ings on Technology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged computing museums, Flickr, Web 2.0 on 2 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
As a gentle introduction to the serious business of my Fellowship, and whilst it still feels like I have left my brain behind somewhere, I’ve spent this afternoon at the Melbourne Museum. The visit was the result of a chance last-minute connection, but fitted into a theme I shall also be looking into at [...]
