Society of Archivists Digital Preservation Roadshows

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 [...]

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Self-publicity round-up

Long time, no post.  Ok, I am officially rubbish at this blogging business (I even forgot the password for this site and had to re-set it!), but I have been busy.  Where do other people find the time?
Anyway, partly I have been busy on writing up my Fellowship trip for various publications, so I thought [...]

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MLA Yorkshire Archives Accepted for InterPares Project

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 [...]

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Digital Preservation in Local Authority Archive Services – Presentations now Available

Presentations from the successful open consultation day held at TNA on 12 November on digital preservation for local authority archivists are now available on the DPC website - including my report on my Churchill Fellowship research in the US and Australia.  Also featured were colleagues from other local authority services already active in practical digital preservation initiatives [...]

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80GB in Yorkshire’s National Newspaper

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 [...]

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It’s hot in Arizona!

isiting Arizona was a useful way of pulling together many of the strands of what I’ve learnt so far. I was particularly interested in the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) project, which aims to create an automated workflow for processing digital collections, but also to keep costs as low as possible in [...]

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Washington State Digital Archives

This was my most challenging (in a thought-provoking way) visit so far. The Washington State (upper left hand corner of the US, for those whose geography is as hazy as mine was!!) Digital Archives doesn’t seem to be terribly well known in the UK, and I’d certainly recommend colleagues have a look at their [...]

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National Archives of Australia Digital Archives

What can local archive services learn from a national archives? Rather than go through the National Archives of Australia’s Digital Archives workflow in detail, as I did for PROV (in any case it is well documented here), I thought I’d pick out some specific details which could be useful for those of us working [...]

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National Library of Australia – Digital Manuscripts

The position of the manuscripts collection within NLA is in many ways analogous to the current position vis-a-vis digital arcives in UK local archive services:
The department has a collecting remit with private donors and organisations of national significance to Australia. This includes literary figures, people involved in the performing arts and some politicians.
In the [...]

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Public Record Office of Victoria (3)

Operating the Digital Archive
As previously posted, the operation of the PROV Digital Archive is well integrated into the wider organisation, with the same team responsible for transfers of both paper and digital records. This team also creates the disposal authorities (more commonly known as ‘retention schedules’ in the UK – is the different terminology [...]

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