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and officials, local people ‘made good’, and even the average person-in-the-street can provide a rich seam of historical content for social history.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 [...]
