Topic: Digital Preservation & Curation

Ten years of digital preservation recognised

On 3 December 2012 at the prestigious annual awards ceremony, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) recognised initiatives from researchers around the world that have made an outstanding contribution to safeguarding digital resources for the future. The DPC is dedicated to developing … Read more

How to feed, nourish and sustain your digital resources

From the late Nineties, European and UK funding agencies across sectors, from education to cultural heritage, have invested significant resources in the creation of digital content in the not-for-profit sector. The grants have facilitated major digitisation and encouraged innovative work … Read more

Remembrance Day: an opportunity to revisit our cultural heritage around WW1

The legacy of World War One in terms of social, economic and political global change cannot be overstated; it changed the individual’s view of society and their place within it with far-reaching effects into their future and our past. In … Read more

Research data – why now?

This is very good time to talk about effective research data management.  It has recently hit the headlines and now that a tweet can be considered a valid freedom of information request, the issue will become even more pressing for … Read more

Reviewing peer review

Last month I was asked to submit evidence to the UK parliament’s science and technology committee for their report about peer review. Though most researchers agree with the principles of peer review, many feel there is room to improve how … Read more

Why watching TV can be good for you

One hundred years ago this year the very first explosive device was dropped from the air in Libya, of all places, and the age of “war from the air” was inaugurated.  Somewhere in Italy’s state archives in Rome are the … Read more

Imagine Google without a search box

If you are looking for audiovisual content it is hard to know where to start. Google can search vast amounts but there is a whole section on the web that is only available to education, and Google by itself is … Read more

The Impact Factor

“We are historians, we’ve never studied people who answer back”. This is how a team member from the Old Bailey Online, a successful resource which provides access to nearly 200,000 trials of London’s central court 1674-1913, summed up the challenge … Read more

And the answer is…..

I have come to the conclusion that the answer to several questions is: the Open Planets Foundation (OPF). That’s a good strong statement, but what are the questions? Before you read on, let’s just establish that you are interested in … Read more

Manage your research information – spend more time on research

The UK keeps a huge amount of information about research. From funding applications to datasets, from HESA and REF reporting to publications lists.  People and institutions across the sector need to manage and share this information at every level. The … Read more

Digital resources made possible by JISC

The UK is a knowledge economy and as the coalition government looks to also to make it a digital one – how is JISC helping to share the UK’s knowledge and our resources online? In my role at JISC I … Read more

Digital content and internet business models

In the week following what President Obama described innovation as a “Sputnik moment” and Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport launched the Year of Philanthropy – an attempt to get more FTSE100 businesses to provide financial … Read more

Introducing the JISC Blog

I have only been something approximating a regular blogger for about three years now and so I rather casually thought that blogging must be, oh, perhaps six or seven years old.  But the term ‘weblog’ seems to have been coined … Read more

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