Tag Archives: blogs

Thoughts about blog data and metadata

During the ArchivePress project at ULCC, we briefly considered the data and metadata generally made available with blogs and blog posts. As ArchivePress focused on the representations of blogs in newsfeeds, we examined the metadata that is generated in common, and exposed in the newsfeeds of three of the most common blog platforms, WordPress, Blogger [...]

Nominate blogs for our survey

Is there a particular blog or blogger you would like to see included in the BlogForever survey? We invite you to use this form to nominate them, and we will try to ensure that the blog is reviewed or the blogger contacted to participate in our survey. Tweet

Asynchronicities in blog structure

At an atomic level, a “blog” comprises “blog posts”, which are continually added to the blog corpus: that is the dynamic essence of a blog, and distinguishes it from old-fashioned, largely static Websites and hypertexts in which little content changed between major update iterations, which process was probably more akin to “publishing a new edition” [...]

If you can keep your blog when all around…

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 [...]

DA Blog, DA Whole Blog, and nothing but DA Blog

We know that some of you reading our blog use offline readers, and in the past you haven’t always been able to read all of our posts. This is because we made use of a mechanism which presents the first few paragraphs of the post on the site, and lets you follow a link to [...]