Does the Digital change anything?

Feb 15, 2012

Digital History15 November 2011 David Thomas and Valerie Johnson (TNA)Does the Digital change anything?Digital preservation is a hot topic in the world of archiving – just how do you preserve the digital record?  What do you keep?  What do you ignore?  These issues...

A Mexican suitcase and the Spanish Civil War

Sep 23, 2010

The Mexican Suitcase is actually 3 cardboard boxes. They contained over 4,000 negatives of photographs taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour taken during the Spanish Civil War. For many years the photographs were thought to be lost but they were...

Report on the ‘Missing links: the enduring web’ conference

Aug 5, 2009

The conference, organised by the Joint Informations Systems Committee (JISC), the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC), was timely and of great significance (all of the presentations are available on the DPC website). In the...