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Fáilte gu Ghlaschu!

  The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.  ~Sydney J. Harris Football and digital preservation seem an unlikely combination but on May 15th Ed and I arrived to a slightly damp Glasgow celebrating en masse the end of the football season, to deliver our DPTP north of the border.  There, I [...]

Marking and writing JISC proposals

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 and how it was used (and perhaps abused) during the marking process. Andy Powell has vented his frustration on some aspects of the process (and [...]

Draft standard for long-term archiving of CAD data

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 EN 9300 family is entitled ‘Long term archiving and retrieval of digital technical product documentation such as 3D, CAD and PDM data‘ and 5 parts [...]

Draft standard on evidential value of digital information

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. British Standard BS 10008 – Evidential weight and legal admissibility of electronic information attempts to define clear guidelines for the creation and custody of digital [...]

OAI-PMH: decline or fall?

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 to the number of sites using it. Does this mean that OAI-PMH is a standard that’s had its day? Some commentators have gleefully rejoiced in the [...]