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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘digital preservation’
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 [...]
MLA Yorkshire Archives Accepted for InterPares Project
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Research Projects, tagged Archive-It, digital archives, digital preservation, Digital Preservation Networks, Internet Archive, InterPares, MLA Yorkshire archives, UK, Web Archiving, WYAS on 19 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
E-mail Preservation
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, Preservation Tools, Research Projects, tagged CERP, Costs, digital preservation, digital recordkeeping, email, email preservation, low cost, North Carolina, small archives, Smithsonian, USA, XML on 10 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lots of interesting work going on at North Carolina State Archives – plenty to read on their electronic records page. One project I’d particularly like to highlight is their work on the preservation of e-mail.
E-mail seems to be one of those types of electronic record about which there’s been lots and lots of discussion about [...]
Best Practices Exchange
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, tagged Best Practice Exchanges, digital preservation, USA on 6 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An ongoing sub-theme of my Fellowship has been to look at where success in digital preservation has come by means of collaborative partnerships, and to investigate how communities of shared practice can be built up and best practice ideas exchanged.
The Best Practice Exchanges take place annually, and provide a forum for those working on digital [...]
It’s hot in Arizona!
Posted in Digital Preservation Networks, tagged Arizona, Costs, data storage, digital archives, digital preservation, digital storage, LOCKSS, low cost, NDIIPP, PeDALS, Preservation Networks, USA on 5 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Washington State Digital Archives
Posted in Operational Digital Archives, tagged Costs, digital archives, digital preservation, NDIIPP, USA, Washington State Digital Archives on 30 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
