Changes to the 80GB Blog

I hinted in the post below that there might be some changes coming up on this blog.  This is because, as some of you will already know, I have moved on from West Yorkshire Archive Service, to start a PhD jointly supervised by UCL’s Department of Information Studies and The National Archives provisionally entitled ‘We [...]

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Aren’t we a friendly, sociable bunch! Reflections on #DR10

On Monday I attended an event at the British Library – Digital Researcher: Managing your networks and building your profile.  I hadn’t intended to blog about it here, since the subject seemed somewhat tangential to the focus of this blog (or at least to the focus of this blog hitherto – on which more, possibly, [...]

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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 [...]

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Preparing for my Churchill Fellowship

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 [...]

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Digital Preservation begins… in Italy?

At the DELOS Summer School on Preservation in Digital Libraries, which so far more than lives up to my expectation that it will provide an excellent overview of current and emerging digital preservation research and practices. A comforting thought for local government Archive Services from the presentations on day 1: that digital preservation is as [...]

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