Web Resource Preservation: No One Ever Said It Would Be Easy….
If it was we’d all be at it!! Any records manager or archivist will probably be able to give you half a dozen reasons for why digital preservation is very important. Some might well give you half a...
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Brian and Marieke have already written about iPres2008 and PoWR, and I have written and will write more about it from a general perspective on DABlog. But we thought it would be worth saying a bit more...
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The web-archiving strand at the iPRES Conference was an opportunity for a number of National Libraries to describe their initiatives, their approaches to web capture and preservation, and the things...
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This contribution to a thread about management of wikis, posted by the Records management section at the University of Edinburgh, was submitted to the Archive listerv recently: Below is an outline of...
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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...
View ArticleWhy you can sometimes leave it to the University
“Does anyone have any positive experiences to share?”, asks Brian in a recent post. Well, I have – except it’s not in the UK. Harvard University Library in the USA have recently put Harvard WAX (the...
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Web archiving in the wider world
When a topic is being discussed in the correspondence pages of national newspapers, it’s a sign that it’s no longer the concern of a few specialists. That’s certainly been true of web archiving for...
View ArticleWeb Resource Preservation: No One Ever Said It Would Be Easy….
If it was we’d all be at it!! Any records manager or archivist will probably be able to give you half a dozen reasons for why digital preservation is very important. Some might well give you half a...
View ArticleMore on iPres2008
Brian and Marieke have already written about iPres2008 and PoWR, and I have written and will write more about it from a general perspective on DABlog. But we thought it would be worth saying a bit more...
View ArticleYet more on iPres2008
The web-archiving strand at the iPRES Conference was an opportunity for a number of National Libraries to describe their initiatives, their approaches to web capture and preservation, and the things...
View ArticleWiki Management
This contribution to a thread about management of wikis, posted by the Records management section at the University of Edinburgh, was submitted to the Archive listerv recently: Below is an outline of...
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...
View ArticleWhy you can sometimes leave it to the University
“Does anyone have any positive experiences to share?”, asks Brian in a recent post. Well, I have – except it’s not in the UK. Harvard University Library in the USA have recently put Harvard WAX (the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Web archiving in the wider world
When a topic is being discussed in the correspondence pages of national newspapers, it’s a sign that it’s no longer the concern of a few specialists. That’s certainly been true of web archiving for...
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