Bring out your dead (files)
On Monday 28 January, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) hosted a file formats day of action, creatively titled ‘Bring Out Your Dead (Files)’ at the Wellcome Collection. As The National Archives’...
View ArticleDastardly Digital Dilemmas: 5) Losing your supplier
On our Digital Continuity training course we cover a situation where the supplier of your records management system withdraws support. Yesterday the administrators of 2e2, who supply the Wisdom EDRM...
View ArticleTrainee Tuesday: When archivists and technology collide!
In the past few months, I have been spreading awareness of digital preservation via a workshop and the notion that digital material, like a word document or excel spreadsheet, is also an archive via...
View ArticleA good place to start understanding digital preservation
On 6 March I attended the award-winning Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) delivered in partnership with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the University of London Computer...
View ArticleMemento in the UK Government Web Archive
We are always looking for new and better ways to make the content of the UK Government Web Archive accessible. One of the most innovative and exciting developments in this area is Memento, which was...
View ArticleDigital records sensitivity review
The National Archives and The University of Glasgow have recently been successful in applying for funding from The University of Glasgow’s Knowledge Exchange fund. The project will see collaboration...
View ArticleInformation Management: Game Over
Asteroids. Pong. Pac-man. Do you remember playing your first electronic video game? Personally I remember back what must be at least 20 years, where my brother and I sat down...
View ArticleCloud storage and archives: a match made in heaven?
With the rise in cloud services and storage, archivists are asking whether this can help address a growing digital preservation challenge. I am leading a team of myself (from Charles...
View ArticleThe record that time forgot
For my first ever blog for The National Archives I wrote about the fossil record, and it seems apt that my last ever blog is about the geological record. A little while...
View ArticleCSV validator – a new digital preservation tool
Today marks the official release of a new digital preservation tool developed by The National Archives, CSV Validator version 1.0. This follows on from well known tools such as DROID...
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