Digital Preservation Briefing Documents
Posted by Brian Kelly on June 16th, 2009
We have recently published a number of new briefing documents on digital preservation.The new documents cover Introduction to Web Resource Preservation, Preserving Web 2.0 Resources, Preserving Your Home Page, Selection for Web Resource Preservation and Web Archiving.
These documents are based on UKOLN’s work in providing, in conjunction with ULCC, the JISC PoWR project which developed advice and guidelines on best practices for the preservation of Web resources.
One of UKOLN’s strengths in its engagement with the cultural heritage sector is its involvement with a wide range of JISC-funded activities which can be re-purposed for the cultural heritage sector. In the case of digital preservation we identified the importance of preservation of Web resources at a workshop organised on behalf of MLA East of England in November 2008. At that workshop a talk was given on “Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Digital Preservation” and the feedback we received demonstrated the need for further pragmatic advice in this area.
The quality of the advice described in our briefing documents and talks has been validated by exposure of the approaches we have developed to the peer-reviewing processes provided at the international iPres 2008 conference held at the British Library in September 2008 at which we presented a paper on “Preservation of Web Resources: The JISC PoWR Project“.
And I’m pleased to say that, as described on the JISC PoWR blog, further work of the JISC PoWR team, covering Preservation Policies and Approaches for Use of Social Web Services aas well as a review of The JISC PoWR Project will be presented at the Digital Preservation Coalition’s “missing links: the enduring web” workshop which will be held at the British Library on 21st July 2009.
If you have a specific interest in this area we hope to see you at the “missing links: the enduring web” workshop. But if you can’t make it you may be interested in subscribing to our JISC PoWR blog which we continue to use to share and discuss best practices and pragmatic approaches for the preservation of Web resources.
June 23rd, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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