Tag Archives: datasets

DPC AGM – and thoughts on preserving research data

Last Monday (2009-11-23) saw DPC members travel to Edinburgh for a board meeting and for the annual general meeting of the company. We elected a new chair – Richard Ovenden – and offered our thanks to Bruno Longmore for the effective leadership he has offered as acting chair following the departure of Ronald Milne for [...]

New NDAD Newsletter

The Winter 2008 issue of Datasets News, the NDAD newsletter is now available. The issue features articles by three of NDAD’s archivists on subjects as diverse as the sport of fencing, English Heritage’s Record of Scheduled Monuments dataset, and a report on a seminar on the importance of long-term datasets in ecological science. The first [...]

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 [...]

Gov 2.0: New uses for old data?

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 [...]

Datasets @ TNA

We were pleased to receive confirmation yesterday from The National Archives that ULCC Digital Archives has been selected to provide the Datasets@TNA service from February 2008. This is the next generation of the NDAD service which we began developing in 1997, and will run for three to five years, with the service moving in house [...]