File formats…or data streams?

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Posted in DPC, Events, Reports, Technical | 4 Comments »

On 1st December Malcolm Todd of The National Archives gave a good account of the work he's been doing on File Formats for Preservation, resulting in a substantial new Technology ... Read more..

On the limits of preservation

Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted in General | 3 Comments »

A recent article in New Scientist on the outer fringes of the chiptune scene prompted me to think about preservation, emulation and the fact that some digital things simply aren't ... Read more..

rpmeet – the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting

Sunday, May 10th, 2009 Posted in AIDA, Events, JISC, JiSC-PoWR, PRIMO, SNEEP | 1 Comment »

Some of us at ULCC, and over 100 other people from around the UK, spent a couple of days this week at the Aston Business School reviewing the outcomes of ... Read more..

DPC sponsors DPTP scholarships for May

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in DPC, DPTP | 1 Comment »

We're pleased to say that the DPC has agreed to sponsor two places at the forthcoming open run of the Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) at SOAS, 18-20 May 2009. ... Read more..

Set a blog to catch a blog…

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in General, JiSC-PoWR | 5 Comments »

Originally published on the JISC-PoWR blog. Much discussion of blog preservation focuses on how to preserve the blogness of blogs: how can we make a web archive store, manage and deliver ... Read more..