Tag Archives: National Archives

National Archives launch a new Digital Preservation FAQ

The National Archives has launched a new Digital Preservation FAQ. The first seven questions are those most frequently posed by archive services to the National Archives. The FAQ is aimed particularly at smaller archives in the publicly funded sector. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/projects-and-work/digital-preservation-faqs.htm ‘It’s designed to demystify issues and give a lead in to more detailed information provided [...]

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 [...]

UKWAC: what about HLF websites?

We were recently relieved to learn that the Bernie Grant Trust archives website is still alive and well at http://www.berniegrantarchive.org.uk/. For a few weeks in November 2007, the site appeared to have vanished, ostensibly another web-based resource to have fallen to the vicissitudes of short-term funding. True, the Internet Archive had captured a few impressions [...]

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 [...]