Tag Archives: web archiving

DA visits CERN

Last week I was in a very welcoming Geneva, exactly in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to meet other partners working on BlogForever and to have several Invenio workshops. I felt very lucky to be in the hub of such an organization and to see how many young international students are getting the [...]

A Tab in the Ocean

I’ve been using Web Curator Tool (WCT) to curate the JISC website collection at UKWA since 2008. I’ve long been aware that the system offered me the opportunity to record a lot of metadata, in tabs called General, Annotations, Groups and Access. It’s a mix of technical metadata (about the gather / website) and descriptive [...]

Thoughts about blog data and metadata

During the ArchivePress project at ULCC, we briefly considered the data and metadata generally made available with blogs and blog posts. As ArchivePress focused on the representations of blogs in newsfeeds, we examined the metadata that is generated in common, and exposed in the newsfeeds of three of the most common blog platforms, WordPress, Blogger [...]

Nominate blogs for our survey

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Asynchronicities in blog structure

At an atomic level, a “blog” comprises “blog posts”, which are continually added to the blog corpus: that is the dynamic essence of a blog, and distinguishes it from old-fashioned, largely static Websites and hypertexts in which little content changed between major update iterations, which process was probably more akin to “publishing a new edition” [...]