Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’
Set a blog to catch a blog…
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 23rd March, 2009
- In: ArchivePress | JiSC-PoWR
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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, [...]
If you can keep your blog when all around…
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 20th March, 2009
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 briefing paper about blog preservation, since it covers an area that we also tackled in the course of the JISC-PoWR [...]
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 [...]
Open Repositories 2008 in Southampton
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 2nd April, 2008
Enjoyed the last couple of days at OR08 in Southampton, catching up with the OR crowd and developments, as well as presenting on our work with Eprints for Linnean Online and SNEEP. The conference was organised with gusto by Les Carr and the Southampton team, who kept things moving at a rapid pace, seemingly unphased [...]
Gov 2.0: New uses for old data?
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 [...]
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