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Fáilte gu Ghlaschu!

  The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris Football and digital preservation seem an unlikely combination but on May 15th Ed and I arrived to a slightly damp Glasgow celebrating en masse the end of the football season, to deliver our DPTP north of the border.  There, I [...]

Gov 2.0 and the rise of WordPress

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 [...]

The Continuity Girl

Amanda Spencer gave an informative presentation at the UK Web-Archiving Consortium Partners Meeting on 23 July, which I happened to attend. The Web Continuity Project at TNA is a large-scale and Government-centric project, which includes a “comprehensive archiving of the government web estate by The National Archives”. Its aims are to address both “persistence” and [...]

Web Continuity Project at The National Archives

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 [...]