The 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.
Archive for the ‘Cultural Heritage’ Category
Guide to Web Preservation Launch at the Opening of IWMW2010
Monday, July 12th, 2010Museums in the Digital Age Making History on BBC Radio 4
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Brian Kelly took part in a discussion on Museums in the Digital Age which will be broadcast on the Making History
programme on BBC Radio 4 on 6 July 2010 at 15:00. Note the Making History series is also available as a podcast.
Survive or Thrive: Making the most of your digital content
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010The growth and use of digital content on the Web together with the digital deluge pose opportunities as well as challenges. How best are they both to be exploited and managed? UKOLN is organising the Survive or Thrive 2010 Conference on behalf of JISC to address such issues. The Conference will take place at the Macdonald Hotel, Manchester over Tuesday 8 – Wednesday 9 June 2010. Further information is obtainable from the UKOLN Web site.
Summing up the UKOLN/MLA Web 2.0 Workshops
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010We have now completed the series of 13 workshops introducing the Museums Libraries and Archives community to Web 2.0 and the social Web. A blog post summing up the workshops is available on UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage blog.
State of the Art of Web Archiving
Thursday, March 18th, 2010The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has released a report on the state of the art of Web archiving by Alex Ball of UKOLN. Web archiving is important not only for future research but also for organisations’ records management processes; however, it is beset by technical, organisational, legal and social issues. The report indicates how these issues are being addressed in current research and development projects.
British Library Warns UK’s Web Heritage ‘could be lost’
Monday, March 1st, 2010Many practitioners in digital preservation and access will have welcomed the recent news item from the BBC Technology News Web site on the UK’s Web heritage. They will be concerned that much of society as a whole remains unaware of the threat to the persistence of digital resources on which we increasingly rely. Commenting on this news item, Dr. Liz Lyon, Associate Director of the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and author of the report Dealing with Data, remarked, “We fully support the work that the British Library has undertaken to address the potential and irredeemable loss of so many Web sites. Moreover, professionals working in digital curation would wish to emphasise that the dangers are not confined to Web heritage. Our research data is in similar peril and assuring its sustainability is at the heart of the work being carried out by the DCC.”
Web 2.0 and the Social Web
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Only a few places remain for the one-day workshop entitled An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web to be held in Nottingham on Wednesday 17 March 2010. This workshop is designed for members of the museums, libraries and archives communities. It will seek to demystify the terminology and the technologies as well as address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users. The workshop will be facilitated by Marieke Guy of UKOLN. Details of the Nottingham event and how to book the last few places are available.
UKOLN Response to Empower, Inform, Enrich Report
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010UKOLN has submitted a response (by Dr Liz Lyon and Ann Chapman) to the DCMS regarding the consultation report on the future of public libraries entitled Empower, Inform, Enrich.