A quick post in support of my lonely hearts ads for this year’s UKAD Forum. I’ve submitted two – slightly concerned this makes me look rather archivally-geekily dissolute… Anyway, these were inspired by a chance conversation on twitter a few weeks back with a couple of archivists who had signed up in January for the [...]
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Lonely Hearts at #UKAD
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged archivists, programming, skills, ukad on 20 March 2012 | 7 Comments »
Jenkinsonian User Participation?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged professionalism, UK on 10 August 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“I hope there always will be, room for the Amateur, and in large numbers….that our School will always find a place for the part-time student – the Local Official or other enthusiast whose Archives do not need and cannot claim the whole of his time; but who can find enough to undertake their listing or [...]
Applications now open for 2011 Churchill Fellowships
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fellowships, travel, WCMT on 31 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Applications are now open for the 2011 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships, until 5th October 2010. As many of you know, I began this blog to document my own Churchill Fellowship in 2008, when I traveled to Australia and the USA to research local and regional responses to digital preservation. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust [...]
UK Copyright Amendments Consultation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged copyright, UK on 28 March 2010 | 1 Comment »
A quick reminder to UK archivists that the consultation on amendments to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act draws to a close this coming Wednesday, 31st March 2010. The proposals include some important provisions for digital preservation – including allowing the making of multiple copies of copyright works for preservation purposes – and extensions to [...]
Women and the history of computing in West Yorkshire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged history of computing, West Yorkshire, women, WRCC on 31 August 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
