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The Continuity Girl
Amanda Spencer gave an informative presentation at the UK Web-Archiving Consortium Partners Meeting on 23 July, which I happened to attend. The Web Continuity Project at TNA is a large-scale and...
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Gov 2.0 and the rise of WordPress
It was interesting to learn today from Rhodri Marsden’s Cyberclinic Blog that the Number 10 website now favours WordPress over a previous Microsoft ASP system. I’ve been an admirer of WordPress for a...
View ArticleiPres2008 – first impressions
iPres2008 finished yesterday, and overall it was a useful and informative event. It took place a mere 15 minutes walk from our current home, so we took advantage of its proximity and attended en masse....
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Hot off the preservation press: JISC-PoWR and the Beagrie Survey
We were pleased to have finally made available version 1.0 of the JISC PoWR Handbook. The Handbook is the result of our extensive work with UKOLN on the JISC Preservation of Web Resources project,...
View ArticleIf you can keep your blog when all around…
I was a keen participant in the activities of ERPANET , but I must confess I haven’t kept abreast of its successor, Digital Preservation Europe (DPE). However I was interested to see the recent DPE...
View ArticleArchiving a wiki
On dablog recently I have put up a post with a few observations about archiving a MediaWiki site. The example is the UKOLN Repositories Research Team wiki DigiRep, selected for the JISC to add to their...
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rpmeet – the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting
Some of us at ULCC, and over 100 other people from around the UK, spent a couple of days this week at the Aston Business School reviewing the outcomes of JISC’s repositories and preservation programme...
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Innovations in Reference Management
Beacon cited through fog Who would have thought that reference management could be so interesting? We spent a very informative and enjoyable Thursday in snowy Milton Keynes, at the Innovations in...
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JISC-PoWR Guide To Web Preservation now available at Lulu
You’ll all remember the JISC-PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) project in 2008, during which we worked with Brian Kelly and Marieke Guy of UKOLN to raise awareness of Web preservation issues through...
View ArticleA Workshop for the Web
We delivered our first DPTP workshop in London on 28 June 2010, on the subject of archiving websites. I delivered most of the training myself, working from my experience with archiving JISC project...
View ArticleDigital preservation in a nutshell (Part I)
From the JISC-PoWR Project blog. One of the goals of PoWR is to make current trends in digital preservation meaningful and relevant to information professionals with the day-to-day responsibility for...
View ArticlePOWRing up the POWR project
The preservation of web resources is something that’s been of interest to me for some time. It presents some interesting technical challenges in terms of capture and access, and many interesting...
View ArticleDigital preservation in a nutshell, part II
Originally published on the JISC-PoWR blog. As Richard noted in Part I, digital preservation is a “series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as...
View ArticleWeb Continuity Project at The National Archives
From the JISC-PoWR Project blog. Ed and I were pleased to come across an interesting document, recently received from The National Archives, describing their Web Continuity Project. This is the latest...
View ArticleBefore and after
From the JISC-PoWR Project blog. Many good ideas are already coming out of the first PoWR workshop. One thing I personally found illuminating was one of the breakout sessions which I facilitated,...
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How sticky is your wiki?
Originally published on JISC-PoWR blog. Wetpaint wiki is just one of the many enticing, powerful, quick-fix web apps that have sprung up around Web 2.0 and Social Networking. You’ll have your own...
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JISC-PoWR @ IWMW2008
Seems I turned up just in time for the UKOLN IWMW 2008 event at Aberdeen. The sun was shining, weather was sweet, and the University buildings in Old Aberdeen looked magnificent. Not only outside – the...
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