Marking and writing JISC proposals

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in JISC | 7 Comments »

There's been quite a bit of online discussion around writing and marking of proposals in JISC's recent 12/08 call, including discussion of how Twitter can help you prepare a bid ... Read more..

Draft standard for long-term archiving of CAD data

Monday, September 8th, 2008 Posted in News, Technical | No Comments »

September's edition of BSI's Update Standards magazine alerted me to another batch of standards, currently at the public comment stage, which are of particular relevance to digital preservation. The BS ... Read more..

Draft standard on evidential value of digital information

Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Technical | No Comments »

My thanks are due to Susan Healy at The National Archives for drawing my attention to a new draft standard of relevance to digital preservation, currently open for public comment. ... Read more..

OAI-PMH: decline or fall?

Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Technical | No Comments »

A recent post on the GoogleWebMasterCentral blog alerts us to Google's withdrawal of support for OAI-PMH for Google Sitemaps. The resources required to support it were, says Google, disproportionate ... Read more..