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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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Metadata: Workshop in Luxembourg |
Michael Day and Andy Stone report on the Third Metadata Workshop in Luxembourg. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
June 1999, issue20, news and events |
Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update |
Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'. |
December 1999, issue22, regular column |
Access to Archives: England’s Contribution to the National Archive Network |
Caroline Thibeaud discusses the Archive 2 Archive project. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
The Distributed National Collection Access, and Cross-sectoral Collaboration: The Research Support Libraries Programme |
Ronald Milne, Director of the programme, with an overview of the objectives for the Research Support Libraries Programme. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Web-archiving: Managing and Archiving Online Documents and Records |
Neil Beagrie and Philip Pothen report on the Digital Preservation Coalition Forum held 25th March 2002. |
July 2002, issue32, event report |
Domesday Redux: The Rescue of the BBC Domesday Project Videodiscs |
Jeffrey Darlington, Andy Finney and Adrian Pearce describe the groundbreaking BBC Domesday Project of 1986, and explain how its unique multimedia collection has been preserved. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Public Libraries |
Penny Garrod gives her view of day two of the Public Library Authorities Conference 2003 |
October 2003, issue37, regular column |
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving |
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2004, issue38, news and events |
Editorial Introduction to Ariadne Issue 39: Humanity V Technology, Which Is in the Driving Seat? |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 39. |
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A National Archive of Datasets |
Jeffrey Darlington describes how structured datasets produced by UK Government departments and agencies are being archived and made available to users. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
Towards the Digital Aquifer: Introducing the Common Information Environment |
Paul Miller discusses current efforts by UK agencies to collaborate on a Common Information Environment that meets the diverse needs of current and future consumers of digital content and services. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
ERPANET / CODATA Workshop, Lisbon |
Michael Day gives us a detailed report on the ERPANET / CODATA Workshop held at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, 15-17 December 2003. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
The Information Environment Service Registry: Promoting the Use of Electronic Resources |
Amanda Hill outlines progress on the Information Environment Service Registry Project and explains what it will mean for service providers and portal developers. |
July 2004, issue40, feature article |
ERPANET Seminar on Persistent Identifiers |
Monica Duke reports on a two-day training seminar on persistent identifiers held by ERPANET in Cork, Ireland over 17-18 June 2004. |
July 2004, issue40, event report |
ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004 |
Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
Sense of the South West Conference: Collaboration for Sustainability |
Katie Lusty reports on a one-day conference on the sustainability of digitisation projects, held in Bath on 8 October 2004. |
October 2004, issue41, event report |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2004, issue41, news and events |
Freedom of Information and the Historian |
Stephen Twigge reports on a one-day conference on Freedom of Information and the Historian jointly hosted by The National Archives and the Institute of Historical Research. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Recasting the Past: Digital Histories |
Vanessa Carr reports on a one day conference about digitising historical records, held jointly by the Association for History and Computing UK and the Royal Historical Society. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
A Tradition of Scholarly Documentation for Digital Objects: The Launch of the Digital Curation Centre |
Philip Hunter reports on the launch of the DCC at the National eScience Centre in Edinburgh, November 2004. |
January 2005, issue42, event report |
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions |
Leona Carpenter describes a JISC development programme tackling the organisational and technical challenges facing Higher and Further Education in the UK. |
April 2005, issue43, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2005, issue43, news and events |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2005, issue44, 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 |
C21st Curation Summer 2005 Public Lecture Series |
Neil Beagrie and Helen Forde report on the public lecture series 'C21st Curation: working with digital assets in the new Millennium - challenges and opportunities' held at University College London over May and June 2005, and on plans for a second series in 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, event report |
Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites |
Maureen Pennock reports on a two-day workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites, organised by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and the Wellcome Library at the Wellcome Library, London, over 19-20 January 2006. |
February 2006, issue46, 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
July 2007, issue52, news and events |
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 |