Automating Archival Description

This post is a thank you to my followers on Twitter, for pointing me towards many of the examples given below.  The thoughts on automated description and transcription are a preliminary sketching out of ideas (which, I suppose, is a way of excusing myself if I am not coherent!), on which I would particularly welcome [...]

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Discovering UK Archives (#ukad and other things)

A round-up and some brief reflections on a number of different events and presentations I’ve attended recently: Many of this term’s Archives and Society seminars at the Institute of Historical Research have been been on particularly pertinent subjects for me, and rather gratifyingly have attracted bumper audiences (we ran out of chairs at the last [...]

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ECDL2010 – Day 2 (#ecdl2010)

Since it seems a few people read my post about day one of ECDL2010, I guess I’d better continue with day two! Liina Munari’s keynote about digital libraries from the European Commission’s perspective provided delegates with an early morning shower of acronymns.  Amongst the funder-speak, however, there were a number of proposals from the forthcoming [...]

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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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