Tag Archives: UKWAC

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

I spent much of yesterday at an event at KCL celebrating the achievements of the AHDS (and the Methods Network) on its final day of existence, and welcoming the phoenix-like birth of CeRch. The day was informative, entertaining and emotional in equal measure and I am very glad I was there. The morning’s overview of [...]

Is this blog being preserved?

Only launched last month, yet already we received this question from Heather Needham, the Principal Archivist (ICT & e-services) at Hampshire Record Office, soon after we announced the existence of the DA blog to the archival community via the JISC NRA listserv. “I presume ULCC is preserving its own blog somehow?!” she asks. By preserved [...]

ULCC to host UKWAC infrastructure

As well as carrying out JISC’s collection management activities in the UKWAC consortium, ULCC are now involved in another aspect of UKWAC’s work. Following the consortium’s decision to move away from the PANDAS platform, and the associated hosting by Magus, ULCC’s infrastructure team have bid successfully to host the systems that the BL will use [...]

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 [...]

UKWAC’s migration of websites

As I write, the UK‘s archive of websites is undergoing the process of migration, in the hands of the British Library who continue to act as the lead partners for the UKWAC Consortium. There are at least two sides to this mammoth task. The first (which I assume is probably relatively easy) involves moving the [...]