Tag Archives: web 2.0

LCACE: Our Digital Future – new technologies for MLAs

While colleagues were busy at ULCC’s Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) conference and the Newsfilm Online launch, I attended the excellent LCACE workshop, Our Digital Future: new technologies for Museums, Libraries and Archives at King’s College on October 3rd. LCACE is a university collaboration promoting the exchange of knowledge and expertise with the capital’s [...]

Web 2.0 and Archives: Something like a Phenomenon?

I just spotted a posting from a fellow Antipodean, made to the Australian Archivists (aus-archivists) listserv, which has certainly raised some interesting questions surrounding web 2.0 technologies and their impact on the Archive sector…. Perhaps a debate well worth monitoring, and further exploring here, within the realm of web 2.0 itself? See Australian Archivists listserv [...]

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 [...]

How sticky is your wiki?

Wetpaint wiki is just one of the many enticing, powerful, quick-fix web apps that have sprung up around Web 2.0 and Social Networking. You’ll have your own favourites no doubt: I won’t start listing them here. Wikis have grown up a lot since the first WikiWikiWeb, and now are at the online heart of many [...]

Digital preservation in a nutshell, part II

As Richard noted in Part I, digital preservation is a “series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary.” But what sort of digital materials might be in scope for the PoWR project?
We think it extremely likely that institutional web resources are going to include digital materials [...]