Posts Tagged ‘JiSC-PoWR’
Set a blog to catch a blog…
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 23rd March, 2009
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Much discussion of blog preservation focuses on how to preserve the blogness of blogs: how can we make a web archive store, manage and deliver preserved blogs in a way that is faithful to the original?
Since it is blogging applications that provide this stucture and behaviour (usually from simple database tables of Posts, Comments, Users, [...]
Hot off the preservation press: JISC-PoWR and the Beagrie Survey
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 21st November, 2008
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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, which included three hugely valuable workshops, and extensive discussion on the PoWR blog. In the Handbook we’ve tried to cover a [...]
Gov 2.0 and the rise of WordPress
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 13th August, 2008
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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 [...]
JISC-PoWR @ IWMW2008
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 25th July, 2008
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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 Conference Hall in the Old King’s Library is a beautiful example of state of the art conferencing facilities, complete [...]
Web Continuity Project at The National Archives
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 11th June, 2008
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 of the many digital preservation initiatives undertaken by TNA/PRO, that began with EROS and NDAD in the mid 1990s, leading to the UK Government Web Archive and other recent [...]
Digital preservation in a nutshell (Part I)
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 23rd May, 2008
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 looking after web resources. Anyone coming for the first time to the field of digital preservation can find it a daunting area, with very distinct terminology and concepts. Some of [...]
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