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A national archive is a central archive maintained by a nation. The National Archives (abbreviated as TNA) is the name of the principle archives in the United Kingdom which covers the ambiguity between their holdings being specific to England, England and Wales, Great Britain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: The National Archives)
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International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2012 |
Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis report on TPDL 2012 held at Paphos, Cyprus, over 23-27 September 2012. |
November 2012, issue70, event report |
The Future of the Past of the Web |
Matthew Brack reports on the one-day international workshop 'The Future of the Past of the Web' held at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 7 October, 2011. |
March 2012, issue68, event report |
From Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA) |
Bernard M Scaife describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web. |
July 2011, issue67, feature article |
A Double-edged Sword: What Are the Implications of Freedom of Information for the HE Sector? |
Amy Gibbons reports on the second in a series of workshops organised by the Research Information Network to explore the impact of the Freedom of Information Act on the Higher Education sector, held at University College London on 1 April 2011. |
July 2011, issue67, event report |
Book Review: Preparing Collections for Digitization |
Michael Day reviews a recently published book on the selection and preparation of archive and library collections for digitisation. |
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Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles |
Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories. |
January 2011, issue66, feature article |
From Passive to Active Preservation of Electronic Records |
Heather Briston and Karen Estlund provide a narrative of the process adopted by the University of Oregon in order to integrate electronic records management into its staff's workflow. |
October 2010, issue65, feature article |
Survive or Thrive |
Ed Fay reports on a two-day conference organised by UKOLN on behalf of JISC to consider growth and use of digital content on the Web, which was held in Manchester in June 2010. |
October 2010, issue65, event report |
Archives in Web 2.0: New Opportunities |
Marta Nogueira describes how three Web 2.0 applications (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) can work as a virtual extension for archives and other cultural organisations, by identifying benefits obtained from the use of Web 2.0 applications. |
April 2010, issue63, feature article |
The Fourth DCC-RIN Research Data Management Forum |
Martin Donnelly and Graham Pryor report on the fourth Research Data Management Forum event, on the theme "Dealing with Sensitive Data: Managing Ethics, Security and Trust," organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and Research Information Network (RIN) in Manchester, England, over 10 - 11 March, 2010. |
April 2010, issue63, event report |
Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management |
Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management. This article is based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop, January 2010. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
An Attack on Professionalism and Scholarship? Democratising Archives and the Production of Knowledge |
Andrew Flinn describes some recent developments in democratising the archive and asks whether these developments really deserve to be viewed as a threat to professional and academic standards. |
January 2010, issue62, feature article |
The Digital Preservation Roadshow 2009-10: The Incomplete Diaries of Optimistic Travellers |
William Kilbride and Malcolm Todd report on the Digital Preservation Roadshow - an eleven month tour of the UK and Ireland designed to provide archivists and record managers with practical advice and support in managing digital resources. |
January 2010, issue62, event report |
Cautionary Tales: Archives 2.0 and the Diplomatic Historian |
Michael Kennedy discusses the value of Archives 2.0 to the online version of Ireland's 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy' series. |
October 2009, issue61, feature article |
SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York |
Julie Allinson and Elizabeth Harbord describe the development of digital repositories for the University of York. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Archives 2.0: If We Build It, Will They Come? |
Joy Palmer discusses some of the opportunities and tensions emerging around Archives 2.0, crowd-sourcing, and archival authority. |
July 2009, issue60, feature article |
Missing Links: The Enduring Web |
Alexandra Eveleigh reports on a workshop on Web archiving, organised by the DPC, JISC and UKWAC at the British Library on 21 July 2009. |
July 2009, issue60, event report |
The REMAP Project: Steps Towards a Repository-enabled Information Environment |
Richard Green and Chris Awre investigate what role a repository can play in enabling and supporting the management and preservation of its own digital content. |
April 2009, issue59, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2009, issue59, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 58: People Still Matter |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 58. |
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Preserving Local Archival Heritage for Ongoing Accessibility |
Frances Boyle, Alexandra Eveleigh and Heather Needham describe the recent digital preservation initiatives in the local authority archives sector. |
January 2009, issue58, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2009, issue58, news and events |
What Happens If I Click on This?': Experiences of the Archives Hub |
Jane Stevenson describes the results of usability testing for the Archives Hub Web site. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
OAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservation |
Sally Rumsey and Ben O'Steen describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
iPRES 2008 |
Frances Boyle and Adam Farquhar report on the two-day international conference which was the fifth in the series on digital preservation of digital objects held at the British Library, on 29 - 30 September 2008. |
October 2008, issue57, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2008, issue57, news and events |
Future-Proofing the Past: LAI Joint Conference 2008 |
Siobhan Fitzpatrick reports on the Annual Joint Conference of the Library Association of Ireland and Cilip IRELAND. |
April 2008, issue55, event report |
The KIDMM Community's 'MetaKnowledge Mash-up' |
Conrad Taylor reports on the KIDMM knowledge community and its September 2007 one-day conference about data, information and knowledge management issues. |
October 2007, issue53, event report |
Newsline |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2007, issue53, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2007, issue52, news and events |
Supporting Creativity in Networked Environments: The COINE Project |
Geoff Butters, Amanda Hulme and Peter Brophy describe an approach to enabling a wide range of users to create and share their own stories, thus contributing to the development of cultural heritage at the local level. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Hold It, Hold It ... Start Again: The Perils of Project Video Production |
It's not like writing a paper. Film production, when the camera points at you, can challenge all sorts of sensitivities. Steve Hitchcock survived the ordeal to tell the story of the Preserv Project video. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
Web Curator Tool |
Philip Beresford tells the story (from The British Library's perspective) of the development of new software to aid all stages of harvesting Web sites for preservation. |
January 2007, issue50, feature article |
2nd International DCC Conference 2006: Digital Data Curation in Practice |
Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel provide an overview of the second annual conference of the Digital Curation Centre. |
January 2007, issue50, event report |
Immaculate Catalogues, Indexes and Monsters Too... |
David E. Bennett reports on the three day residential CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference, University of East Anglia, during September 2006. |
October 2006, issue49, event report |
A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation |
Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jose Carlos Ramalho propose a Service-Oriented Architecture to help cultural heritage institutions to accomplish automatic digital preservation. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
C21st Curation Spring 2006 Public Lecture Series |
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: access and service delivery' held at University College London over April and May 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving |
Maureen Pennock and Manjula Patel report on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum which took place at the British Library in London on 12 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2006, issue48, news and events |
Excuse Me... Some Digital Preservation Fallacies? |
Chris Rusbridge argues with himself about some of the assumptions behind digital preservation thinking. |
February 2006, issue46, feature article |