Tag Archives: JISC-PoWR

Innovations in Reference Management

Who would have thought that reference management could be so interesting? We spent a  very informative and enjoyable Thursday in snowy Milton Keynes, at the Innovations in Reference Management (#IRM10) event (part of the OU/JISC TELSTAR project). All thoroughly blogged by Owen Stephens, and tweeted by many. Owen Stephens and Jason Platts of OU described [...]

Hot off the preservation press: JISC-PoWR and the Beagrie Survey

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 [...]

JISC-PoWR @ IWMW2008

Seems I turned up just in time for the UKOLN IWMW 2008 event at Aberdeen. The sun was shining, weather was sweet, and the University buildings in Old Aberdeen looked magnificent. Not only outside – the Conference Hall in the Old King’s Library is a beautiful example of state of the art conferencing facilities, complete [...]

How sticky is your wiki?

Wetpaint wiki is just one of the many enticing, powerful, quick-fix web apps that have sprung up around Web 2.0 and Social Networking. You’ll have your own favourites no doubt: I won’t start listing them here. Wikis have grown up a lot since the first WikiWikiWeb, and now are at the online heart of many [...]

Digital preservation in a nutshell, part II

As Richard noted in Part I, digital preservation is a “series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary.” But what sort of digital materials might be in scope for the PoWR project?
We think it extremely likely that institutional web resources are going to include digital materials [...]