Posted on Sunday, July 11th, 2010
The JISC PoWR team is pleased to announce the launch of A Guide to Web Preservation. This Guide uses similar content to PoWR: The Preservation of Web Resources Handbook but in a way which provides a practical guide to web preservation, particularly for web and records managers. The chapters are set out in a logical [...]
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Posted on Saturday, July 10th, 2010
On this page you can download a copy of the A Guide to Web Preservation. This Guide builds on the work of the JISC-funded PoWR project which was published in the PoWR: The Preservation of Web Resources Handbook. The Guide provides a practical guide to web preservation, particularly for web and records managers. The Guide [...]
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Posted on Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Two weeks ago the Library of Congress announced that they will be archiving all public tweets since Twitter began. The tweets have been given to the library as a ‘gift’ from Twitter. The announcement was fittingly made on Twitter. Yesterday the Library of Congress blog published a list of FAQs abouut the approach they will [...]
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Posted on Friday, August 7th, 2009
In a recent blog post entitled Tools For Preserving Twitter Posts I described some of the Twitter preservation tools we were planning to use to keep a record of the tweets related to UKOLN’s recent IWMW 2009 event. Twitter proved very popular during this annual event for institutional Web managers, with over 1,500 Twitter posts [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Yesterday many of those most committed to, and interested in, Web preservation attended the Missing links: the enduring web conference held at the British Library. The event, which had over 100 attendees (from academia, galleries, museums, libraries, archives, government, research groups and beyond) was an attempt to ‘develop and strength the links between content creators, [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Today was the Missing Links: The enduring Web conference held at the British Library Conference Centre, London. A trip report on the event will follow. The JISC PoWR team presented two posters, one provided a general overview of the project and the other discussed Preservation Policies and Approaches for Use of Social Web Services. The [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
I recently described some Some Use Cases For Preserving Twitter Posts including preservation of an organisation’s digital memory and preservation of data for subsequent data mining. The post, however, failed to include perhaps the most obvious example: preservation of Twitter posts (tweets) related to an event. In response to that post a number of solutions [...]
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Posted on Friday, June 26th, 2009
I’ve come across two schools of thought regarding the preservation of Twitter posts (tweets). From Twitter fans, it’s a really useful form of informal conversation, with a particular strength being the way in which messages quickly disappear. It’s like having conversations in your favourite bar – and we wouldn’t want such conversations preserved, so why [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
JISC-PoWR has discussed many times how best to preserve blogs for future use. No one should be in any doubt any more that there are rapidly growing corpora of blogs that contain valuable information or commentary – scholarly, actual, political, or personal – which merit keeping no less than famous and not-so-famous journals and diaries [...]
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Posted on Friday, June 19th, 2009
At the CILIP 2.0 open meeting in London (29th April 2009) delegates and remote participants were encouraged to tweet, using the #cilip2 tag, on issues relating to the role of Web 2.0 for CILIP members. These tweets were displayed on a screen using the Twitterfall client. Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest ‘tweets’ [...]
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Posted on Friday, May 1st, 2009
This blog has been occasionally concerned with issues surrounding the capture of Tweets, in their capacity as web-based resources which may or may not have value to the Institution as record or archive material. See Brian Kelly’s post of July 2008. The discussions have been based around (a) is it worth doing? And (b) is [...]
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Posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Much discussion of blog preservation focuses on how to preserve the blogness of blogs: how can we make a web archive store, manage and deliver preserved blogs in a way that is faithful to the original? Since it is blogging applications that provide this stucture and behaviour (usually from simple database tables of Posts, Comments, [...]
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Posted on Monday, February 16th, 2009
We’ve written about Twitter on the JISC PoWR site before mainly when considering preservation of Web 2.0 material. Now Twitter could become a useful tool in helping you communicate about Web resource preservation. The Archivists and Records Managers Twitter Group is up and running. You can register at http://twittgroups.com/group/archives. I’m sure there will be lots [...]
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Posted on Monday, October 6th, 2008
JISC PoWR: The Preservation of Web Resources Handbook From this page you can download the latest version of the JISC PoWR Handbook. The latest version is Version 1.0, launched on 5th November 2008 and formally signed off by the JISC on 13th November 2008. You can also view a version of this Handbook which is [...]
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Posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The second JISC PoWR workshop was held on 23rd July 2008 as part of UKOLN’s annual institutional Web management workshop, IWMW 2008. This workshop provided an opportunity to review the outcomes of the first workshop, in which members of the JISC PoWR team and the 30+ participants identified some of the challenges to be faced [...]
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Posted on Friday, July 11th, 2008
How should you go about preserving your Twitter posts, which are sometimes referred to as tweets. You may feel this is a strange question, or perhaps even an incomprehensible one. For those who may not be familiar with Twitter, this is a microblogging application which can be used to create a brief (up to 140 [...]
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Posted on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
I recently posted an article about the history of the University of Bath home page which included a link to a display of versions of the home page, based on data taken from the Internet Archive from 1997-2007. Andy Powell, a former colleague of mine who used to work at the University of Bath, posted [...]
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Posted on Thursday, May 1st, 2008
About this Blog This blog was set up to support the work of JISC PoWR, a project funded by the JISC Integrated Information Environment Committee. The blog helped to raise awareness of the importance of the preservation of Web resources. The main target audience for the blog were policy makers and practitioners working in institutional [...]
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