An article written by Marieke Guy
which discusses the preservation of tweets has been published in this month’s FUMSI Magazine. FUMSI, the successor to FreePint, publishes articles designed to support information professionals in their work.
Archive for the ‘Publications’ Category
Treasuring Twitter: The Why and How of Preserving Tweets
Monday, September 6th, 2010Kelly Tells THE: More to University Web Sites than League Tables
Monday, September 6th, 2010In a letter published in the 2-8 September 2010 issue of Times Higher Education, Brian Kelly points out the limitations of publishing league tables for university Web sites. The challenge is not in jostling for position in an artificial league table, but ensuring that Web teams are willing to share best practice in exploiting the potential of the Social Web. Further details are available.
UKOLN Contribution to THE Article on “All about me, dot com”
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Brian Kelly was featured in an article published in the Time Higher Education entitled All about me, dot com. The article explored “the world of academics’ personal websites“. Brian made the point that “universities may lose access to material, such as posted lecture notes, if academics are operating outside the university domain. But then again, if IT services cannot cater for academics who want to manage their personal page in a more hands-on style, an exit from the university sphere might make sense.“
Real World Approaches to Accessibility
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010An article entitled Real World Approaches to Accessibility has been published in the E-Access Bulletin, July 2010 issue. The article summarises a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which was awarded a prize for the best communications paper at the W4A 2010 conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA in April 2010.
International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 1, Volume 5
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010UKOLN has just published – on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre – Issue 1, Volume 5 of the International Journal of Digital Curation. This issue features 11 peer-reviewed papers and four general articles.
Briefing Paper: Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web
Thursday, July 15th, 2010A briefing paper entitled Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web has been published by the Association of Independent Museums (AIM). It is now available in PDF and in a Welsh-language PDF version. The paper was written by Brian Kelly, UKOLN, together with Glynis Powell, Museum Development Officer for Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull.
Guide to Web Preservation Launch at the Opening of IWMW2010
Monday, July 12th, 2010The Guide to Web Preservation published by the JISC-funded Preservation of Web Resources (JISC-PoWR) Project run by UKOLN and the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) has been launched at the Institutional Web Managers Workshop (IWMW2010). Further details are available.
Web 2.0 and Libraries: Impacts, Technologies and Trends
Monday, July 5th, 2010Brian Kelly has contributed a chapter on A Deployment Strategy for Maximising the Impact of Instituional Use of Web 2.0 in a book entitled Web 2.0 and Libraries: Impacts, Technologies and Trends edited by Dave Parkes and Geoff Walton and published by Chandos Publishing.
Two Digital Preservation Papers at iPRES2010
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Brian Kelly and Marieke Guy of UKOLN have received notification that two papers have been accepted by the 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010). One paper considers the challenges of archiving professional blogs which are hosted by blog platforms in the Cloud. The second paper describes the technical and policy issues related to the archiving of Twitter posts (tweets) which are being addressed by the JISC-funded development of the Twapper Keeper service.