Tag Archives: web preservation

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 [...]

A Workshop for the Web

We delivered our first DPTP workshop in London on 28 June 2010, on the subject of archiving websites. I delivered most of the training myself, working from my experience with archiving JISC project websites, writing the PoWR Handbook, and my sense for how the work should fit into a traditional archiving continuum. Accordingly I tried [...]

Innovations in Reference Management

Who would have thought that reference management could be so interesting? We spent a  very informative and enjoyable Thursday in snowy Milton Keynes, at the Innovations in Reference Management (#IRM10) event (part of the OU/JISC TELSTAR project). All thoroughly blogged by Owen Stephens, and tweeted by many. Owen Stephens and Jason Platts of OU described [...]

Hot off the preservation press: JISC-PoWR and the Beagrie Survey

We were pleased to have finally made available version 1.0 of the JISC PoWR Handbook. The Handbook is the result of our extensive work with UKOLN on the JISC Preservation of Web Resources project, which included three hugely valuable workshops, and extensive discussion on the PoWR blog. In the Handbook we’ve tried to cover a [...]

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 [...]