Posts Tagged ‘preservation’
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 [...]
ULCC/Portico/DPC consortium to undertake JISC preservation study
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 29th October, 2008
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We’ve just heard that a consortium of ULCC, Portico and the Digital Preservation Coalition has been awarded the contract by JISC to undertake a Preservation Study of recent digitisation activities. The JISC Digitisation Programme has made a wide variety of valuable resources digitally accessible, including: British Newspapers (1620-1900) Newsfilm Online First World War Poetry Newspaper [...]
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 [...]
DCC discussions on image formats
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 4th July, 2008
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Rich pickings in a couple of fascinating posts on the DCC Digital Curation Blog, in which Chris Rusbridge summarises recent discussions on the DCC-Associates email list about appropriate photo image file formats for preservation, specifically TIFF, RAW and JPEG 2000. A sibling post also discusses the merits of RAW versus TIFF from the perspective of [...]
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 [...]
Significant Properties Workshop @ BL
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 8th April, 2008
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I don’t think I could begin to do justice in a few words to the wide-ranging debate at the JISC/BL/DPC Workshop on Significant Properties at the British Library on Monday: I’d rather leave it to others to analyse the significant outcomes in more detail, or to further discussions like the one started by Chris Rusbridge [...]
ERPANET seminar: Metadata in Digital Preservation
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 9th September, 2003
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Speakers Themes The ERPANET Training Seminar: Metadata in Digital Preservation took place at Archivschule, Marburg, Germany, 3rd-5th September 2003. The following notes focus on points made by speakers that have some bearing on current deliberations on metadata intiatives. I have added links to PDF versions of the presentations available on the ERPANET web site. Speakers [...]
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