Digital Delights for October

A round-up of a few pieces of digital goodness to cheer up a damp and dark start to October: What looks like a bumper new issue of the Journal of the Society of Archivists (shouldn’t it be getting a new name?) is published today.  It has an oral history theme, but actually it was the [...]

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Churchill Medallion Ceremony, 21st May 2010

Under the avuncular eye of fellow Pembrokian William Pitt the Younger, I was presented with my Churchill Fellowship Medallion by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall at the City of London Guildhall on Friday 21st May.  Unfortunately, I can’t blog the picture of me receiving my medallion; partly because its locked down by some [...]

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Gloucestershire Archives – Digital Curation from Ingest to Trusted Storage

Last Thursday I was delighted to attend the culminating workshop for the Society of Archivists‘ (SoA) funded digital curation project at Gloucestershire Archives.  As Viv Cothey, the developer employed by Gloucestershire Archives, has noted, “Local authority archivists may well be fully aware of the very many exhortations to do digital curation and to get involved [...]

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Missing Links – the Enduring Web, British Library 21st July 2009

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, [...]

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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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