Tag Archives: digital preservation

British Library’s Social Welfare Portal launched

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

I was very pleased to be invited to the soft launch of the British Library’s new Social Welfare Portal. Apart from being a very nice occasion, it was great to see a demo of the portal. It’s taken a lot … Continue reading →

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Responses to ‘The Hargreaves Review’ now available

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

The Intellectual Property Office recently published a summary of responses from interested parties to the Government’s Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (the “Hargreaves Review“). Respondents included representative bodies, private companies, independent media professionals, the legal profession and other interested individuals. … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday DERA!

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

DERA (the Digital Education Resource Archive) is one year old this month. At the time of my first blog post on DERA, on 28th February 2011 we were very proud that we had managed to get over 1000 full text … Continue reading →

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The value of our digital preservation projects to the wider community

Posted on January 20, 2012 by

The library’s two ongoing projects looking at digital preservation are just two  of nine that are feeding into a larger JISC funded project – Sustainable PReservation Using Community Engagement (SPRUCE). Launched at the beginning of the year and running for … Continue reading →

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Digital Directorate – Update 1 (the records survey)

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

In my last post I outlined the work we would be doing to capture the digital archives of the IOE’s central administrative department – the Directorate. We thought it was about time we gave you an update on what we … Continue reading →

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New JISC funded project for digital preservation starts in the archives

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

The archives were recently awarded funding from JISC to undertake a project to work with the Directorate here at the Institute to develop the IOE’s digital archive. It is a four month project and during this time we will be … Continue reading →

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Library awarded JISC funding: Preserving Official Publications in Education (POPE)

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

Great news! The library has been awarded JISC funding under Strand B2 of the Digital Infrastructure Portfolio call. It is for a four month project to preserve UK education Official Publications which are currently linked to via the library catalogue … Continue reading →

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