Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 13th August, 2008
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 while now. I think we first looked at it circa 2004, for an internal news management system, when we needed an alternative [...]
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 28th March, 2008
Here’s a picture hot off the press from Patricia at the ICA seminar for Mexican archivists. Patricia will be telling them all about her work on DPTP (in Spanish), and hopefully tell us all about her trip when she gets back.
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 20th March, 2008
I was pleased the DCC news feed alerted me to a new publication by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Alternative File Formats for Storing Master Images of Digitisation Projects. Particularly as on the KB publications page are also links to two other recent reports Evaluating File Formats for Long-term Preservation and Recommendations for the creation of PDF [...]
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 23rd January, 2008
To Westminster yesterday for the Gov 2.0 event organised by OII and POST, held at Portcullis House. (I’d love to have taken my own photos to include, but everywhere I turned there were “No photography” signs, and you know how I hate to break rules.) The event was in two parts: on reflection I could [...]
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 10th October, 2007
Not a fingerprint system, or a District Attorney’s convention in Vegas, da blog is the new blog for ULCC’s Digital Archives department: a publicly accessible place for ULCC’s team of Digital Archives specialists to record and report on projects, developments and significant events in digital archives and preservation and related areas.