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Web Watching For Archivists: RCAHMS and Canmore
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The era of control is over:You can either stay in the bunker, or you can jump out there and try to participate, to not participate is criminal. View my complete profile. Monday, 23 May 2011. Have interviewed Rebecca Bailey (Head of Education and Outreach, RCAHMS. And Michela Clari (Researcher, Edinburgh University. About the potential impact of social media on archives with a focus on Canmore. Which was opened up in 2009 to allow public contributions either as new images or comments on existing images.
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Home - Archives Hub
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Skip to page content. Archives hub - at the centre of great research. Use the Archives Hub to find unique sources. For your research. Search across descriptions of archives. From over 1,000 years of history, held at over 300 institutions. The Archives Hub is a free service describing physical and digitised collections held in higher education, specialist, local authority, business and other research archives. It is updated every week with new content. Take a look at our Archives Hub Gallery. Be part of it.
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Web Watching For Archivists: August 2010
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The era of control is over:You can either stay in the bunker, or you can jump out there and try to participate, to not participate is criminal. View my complete profile. Monday, 23 August 2010. I'm guest posting today over at the UKLON Cultural Heritage blog. About the benefits of using web 2.0 in your archive. Links to this post. Tags: Archives 2.0. Friday, 13 August 2010. Not really web 2.0 but there are some great pictures on the Guardian. Today of the storage facilities at DeepStore. Go check it out.
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: September 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Wednesday, 24 September 2014. To crop or not to crop? Preparing images for page turning applications. How do you prepare digital images of physical archive volumes for display within a web-based page turning application? I thought this was going to be a fairly straight forward question when I was faced with it a couple of months ago. I soon realised that there are many ways of approaching this problem and few standard answers. When photographing material from ...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: December 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Thursday, 18 December 2014. Plugging the gaps: Linking Arkivum with Archivematica. In September this year, Arkivum. Who develop and support the Open Source software Archivematica. Announced that they were collaborating. On a digital preservation system. This is a piece of work that myself and colleagues at the University of York were very pleased to be able to fund. OAIS Functional Entities ( CCSDS 2002. From the start we have favoured a modular approach to a ...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: July 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Monday, 21 July 2014. How much data can you afford to lose? 8220;How often should I back up my data? 8221; is a question I am sometimes asked. There are several answers to this. A bee - one of the rescued digital images. In the fast-paced digital world that we live, backing up our data is often seen as an additional administrative overhead that can fall to the bottom of our overflowing to do list. A makeshift dolls house - another rescued digital image. This w...
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Digital Archiving at the University of York: November 2014
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Digital Archiving at the University of York. Friday, 7 November 2014. A non-archivist's perspective on cataloguing born digital archives. As blogged in my previous post. Earlier this week I attended an ARA Section for Archives and Technology. Event on Born Digital Cataloguing. And also had the opportunity to talk about some of the Borthwick's current work in this area. The Archaeology Data Service. A digital archivist may speak a different language to traditional archivists,. But we can work around this.
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Web Watching For Archivists: November 2010
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The era of control is over:You can either stay in the bunker, or you can jump out there and try to participate, to not participate is criminal. View my complete profile. Wednesday, 10 November 2010. Follow an archive day. Friday 12th November is follow an archive day on twitter so what to do about it? Has it all covered here. Check out the f ollowanarchive list. For new archives to follow and take a look at the promo videos for the day on youtube. Links to this post. Tags: Archives 2.0. The final round: ...
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Web Watching For Archivists: One Day Diary event for Mass Observation Archive
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The era of control is over:You can either stay in the bunker, or you can jump out there and try to participate, to not participate is criminal. View my complete profile. Saturday, 14 May 2011. One Day Diary event for Mass Observation Archive. Today (Thursday 12th May*) is the day that the Mass Observation Archive. Are asking for people across the UK to keep a diary of their day and donate it to the archive. Read about it on their website here. Thanks for Kathryn at Archives and Auteurs. An archives-theme...
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Web Watching For Archivists: Ask Archivists Day 9th June
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The era of control is over:You can either stay in the bunker, or you can jump out there and try to participate, to not participate is criminal. View my complete profile. Thursday, 9 June 2011. Ask Archivists Day 9th June. Day has kicked off. You can see a snazzy visualisation of the questions being asked via this twitter fountain. Tags: Archives 2.0. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Slam bam WAM: Wrangling best practices for web archiving metadata. The final round: Animals from the Archives. 23 Things...
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