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Conference paper (unpublished)
Supporting practical preservation work and making it sustainable with SPRUCE
Wheatley, Paul ; Pennock, Maureen
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Journal article
Supporting institutional digital preservation & asset management: a summary of the Jisc DPAM programme synthesis
This article summarises the results of a recently published synthesis study on the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded Digital Preservation & Asset Management (DPAM) programme. The DPAM programme ran from 2004 until 2006 and aimed to establish a basis for the development of institutional strategies and policies for long-term preservation...Pennock, Maureen
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Journal article
Data without meaning: Establishing the significant properties of digital research
It is well recognised that the period of time in which digital research may remain accessible is likely to be short in comparison to the period in which it will continue to hold intellectual value. Although many digital preservation strategies are effective for simple resources, it is not always possible...Knight, Gareth ; Pennock, Maureen
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Editorial
Editorial
The digital revolution brought about marked changes in the way that libraries and archives achieve their mandates. Particularly at a national level, technology has changed working practices within memory organisations to deliver efficiencies in processing content and increasing access. Technology has changed the very way we manage and provide access...Pennock, Maureen ; Coufal, Libor
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Journal article
DCC Workshop Report: E-mail Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation and Access, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 24 - 25, 2006
A report on the Digital Curation Centre workshop held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in April 2006 to explore practical approaches for managing, preserving and re-using e-mail records.Pennock, Maureen
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Conference paper (published)
Co-operation for digital preservation and curation: Collaboration for collection development in institutional repository network
The digital preservation problem is a series of interrelated technical and organizational challenges that can only be met co-operatively by the many different stakeholders that are involved. The rise of the institutional repository paradigm backs this up with its focus on co-operation within national or subject-based networks and the wider...Day, Michael ; Pennock, Maureen ; Allinson, Julie
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Conference paper (published)
Implementing Digital Preservation Strategy: Developing content collection profiles at the British Library
The British Library is increasingly a digital library. Through both digitization and acquisition, it has built up significant collections of digital content covering a very wide range of content types. Most recently, the extension of legal deposit provisions to non-print works in 2013 has meant that it - working in...Day, Michael ; McDonald, Ann ; Pennock, Maureen ; Kimura, Akiko
content management, digital libraries, content collection profiles, Internet, and digital preservation
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Poster (unpublished)
Managing an ISO 16363 self-assessment: a how-to guide
Audit and certification standards help demonstrate whether a repository is trustworthy. Their guidelines provide a framework with which to assess the on-going viability of a digital repository as well as the surrounding resources and infrastructurePennock, Maureen ; Smith, Caylin
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Conference paper (published)
The Flashback Project: Rescuing disk-based content from the 1980s to the present day
This paper introduces the British Library's Flashback project, a proof-of-concept that explored the practical challenges of preserving digital content stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks) using a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between 1980 and 2010. It describes some of the activities undertaken by...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter ; Day, Michael ; Davies, Kevin ; Whibley, Simon …
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Conference paper (published)
Archiving web site resources: a records management view
In this paper, we propose the use of records management principles to identify and manage Web site resources with enduring value as records. Current Web archiving activities, collaborative or organisational, whilst extremely valuable in their own right, often do not and cannot incorporate requirements for proper records management. Material collected...Pennock, Maureen ; Kelly, Brian
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Journal article
The preservation of disk-based content at the British Library: Lessons from the Flashback Project
This article introduces the British Library’s Flashback project, which is exploring the practical challenges of preserving digital content currently stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks). It reports on a Flashback proof of concept that conducted experiments on a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between... -
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Scaled and automated preservation planning for highly diverse digital collections: the Integrated Preservation Suite
This poster describes the Integrated Preservation Suite (IPS) project. IPS is a British Library initiative to develop and populate an infrastructure capable of supporting preservation planning of highly diverse digital collections at scale. IPS comprises: A Representation Information Registry with information about formats and wider technical environments relevant to the...Pennock, Maureen ; May, Peter
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Conference paper (published)
Adventures with ePub3: when rendering goes wrong
The role of standards in digital preservation is widely acknowledged. The current version of the ePub standard, used for publishing and disseminating eBooks, is ePub3, specifically 3.1 (January 2017). A marked difference from ePub2 is support for fixed layout files and, whilst several different ePub readers are available, not all...Pennock, Maureen ; Day, Michael
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Conference paper (published)
Preservation planning for emerging formats at the British Library
The British Library and the other UK Legal Deposit Libraries have been collecting various forms of born-digital digital publications since 2013 as part of what is known as Non-Print Legal Deposit (NPLD). In 2017, the UK Legal Deposit Libraries established an Emerging Formats project to look at selected types of...Day, Michael ; Pennock, Maureen ; Smith, Caylin ; Jenkins, Jeremy ; Cooke, Ian
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Journal article
Furṣatī barā-yi dīdan
Sedighi, Alireza
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Journal article
Būmīgirāyī va ta's̲īr-i ān bar adabiyāt-i dāstānā-i mu'ās̲ir-i Irān
بومی گرایی واکنش روشنفکرانی بود که می خواستند مخاطبان خود را به اصالت ها و ریشه هایشان توجه دهند، بنابراین کشورهای فراوانی که در معرض استعمار قرار داشتند، به این موضوع توجه کردند و طبیعتا جریان های گوناگون روشنفکری در ایران نیز به آن بی توجه نماندند. در بررسی جریان...Sedighi, Alireza
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Journal article
Muqāyasah-i shakṣiyat-i Rustam va Arjun dar Shāhnāmah va Mahābahārāt
مهابهارات اثر حماسی هندوان روایتگر جنگ پاندوان و کوروها بر سرحکومت منطقه ای به نام هستناپور است. در این جنگ که هیجده روز به طول می انجامد پاندوان برپسرعموهای خود پیروز می شوند. ارجن در میان باقی قهرمانان این کتاب از نظرگاه های متفاوت شبیه رستم، جهان پهلوان شاهنامه است....Sedighi, Alireza
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Asbāb va ṣuvar-i ibhām dar dāstān'hā-yi Bizhan Najdī
بيژن نجدي، داستان نويسي است که در داستان هايش- به خصوص در داستان هاي مجموعه دوباره از همان خيابان ها- به مبهم کردن فضاي داستان توجه و علاقه دارد. اين ابهام علاوه بر عدم برقراري رابطه طبيعي ميان دال و مدلول، علل متعدد ديگري نيز مي تواند داشته باشد. اين...Sedighi, Alireza
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Journal article
Āshiyānah-i Simurgh az dirakht-i Vispubīsh tā kūh-i Alborz
به سبب شباهتهای متعددی که میان درخت و کوه وجود دارد، سیمرغ شاهنامه از درخت ویسپوبیش به کوه البرز نقل مکان می کند. سیمرغ، سئن یا مرغو سئن اوستا در شاهنامه نیز حضور خود را با تفاوتهایی حفظ کرده است. اگر سیمرغ اوستا چهره ای آیینی و پذیرفته دارد. شاهنامه...Sedighi, Alireza
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Journal article
Muqāyasah-i sākhtārī-i khvaishāvankushī va khvaishāvanāzārī dar Shāhnāmah va Mahābahārāt
این پژوهش در صدد است تا با بررسی قصه های دو حماسه ایرانی و هندی، یعنی شاهنامه و مهابهارت، نشان دهد، ساختار این قصه ها تا چه اندازه از نظر طرح و محدوده، شبیه به هم است. بنابراین بخشی از قصه ها با موضوع «خویشاوند کشی خویشاوند آزاری» انتخاب گردید...Sedighi, Alireza
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Journal article
Nāhamkhvānī-i nazariyah va nivishtār(barrisī va naqd-i romān-i Gonjishkhā bihisht rā mīfahmand)
رمان گنجشک ها بهشت را می فهمند مطابق با آموزه های پسامدرنیستی نوشته شده است. توجه به آشفتگی در روایت و به تبع آن زمان داستان، ویژگی های فراداستانی، ایجاد دور باطل با استفاده از شخصیت های تاریخی در کنار شخصیت های داستانی و حضور نویسنده در داستان برای به...Sedighi, Alireza
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Journal article
Nawrūz va Jamshīd
Sedighi, Alireza
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Book chapter
Éditions bilingues de textes espagnols’
Taylor, Barry
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Book chapter
Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) and his books
Taylor, Barry
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Journal article
Libros religiosos coloniales de la British Library: libros impresos en México, Perú, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador y Guatemala, 1543/4-1800
El propósito del presente artículo no es otro que poner en manos del lector una lista clasificada de libros sobre religión impresos en Hispanoamérica en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII y actualmente conservados en la British Library. Se excluyen : pleitos en los que participan religiosos ; documentos sobre...Taylor, Barry ; West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Los libros españoles del Dr. William Bates (1625-1699) en la Dr. Williams’s Library de Londres
Taylor, Barry
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Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library’s Printed Collections
Dispersed along the shelves of the British Library today are many volumes that once stood side by side in private libraries. These essays explore some of the most important printed collections which were brought together to form the British Museum Library and cast new light on the individuals whose personal...Mandelbrote, Giles ; Taylor, Barry
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Más sobre los manuscritos de Frederick William Cosens
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ediciones Vigía. Handmade Books from Cuba 1985-2007
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
El fondo vasco de E.S. Dodgson de la British Library: su identificación y catalogación
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The Spanish and Portuguese Manuscripts of Frederick William Cosens (1819-89)
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Ediciones Vigía: handmade books from Cuba
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The British Library’s collection of Basque books: whose were they and how did they get there?
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Los fondos vascos de la British Library: indagaciones sobre su procedencia
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
La adquisición del Amadís de Gaula, Libros I-IV (Zaragoza, 1508) por el Museo Británico
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Los libros que fueron de la Biblioteca de Seillière ahora en la British Library de Londres
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Accident or by design. How and why did the British (Museum) Library acquire its holdings of Basque printed books?
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
The best Spanish library out of Spain. El ideal de Panizzi, ayer y hoy
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Catálogo colectivo y bibliografía de impresos iberoamericanos hasta 1850: los fondos de las bibliotecas británicas
West, Geoffrey
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Journal article
Colecciones latinoamericanas especiales – colecciones desconocidas en el Reino Unido
El portal del "National Register of Archives" (http://www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/) brinda acceso a muchos materiales de posible interés para investigadores sobre Iberoamérica, aunque su enfoque lo constituyen los documentos relacionados estrictamente con la historia del Reino Unido y con personajes británicos. Desafortunadamente, no permite la búsqueda por materia; los índices están basados...West, Geoffrey ; Cazzasa, Julio ; Millum, Danny ; Topp Fargion, Janet
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Conference paper (published)
Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Atlantic crossings: the trade in Latin American books in Europe in the nineteenth century
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Torres-García: dos artistas uruguayos y la vanguardia en Cataluña
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Where are they now? The dispersal of Spanish printed book collections, 1810-1850
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Lost for words? The Earliest Representations of the Americas in European Sources
West, Geoffrey
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Conference paper (published)
Early printed books containing Andean languages in the British Library, London
West, Geoffrey
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Journal article
Managing quasi-domesticity at the roadside: Postwar female moteliers and the space of reinvention
For postwar travelers, the motel offered a convenient lodging option for a newly mobile nation looking for contemporary, relaxed and auto-friendly places to rest. In response to travelers' needs, the motel industry flourished; between 1946 and 1957 the number of motels in the United States almost tripled, growing from around...Rodway, Cara
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Book
Microforms in Libraries: the Untapped Resource? Papers given at the National Preservation Office Conference held 13-15 October 1992 in Birmingham
Why hold a national conference on microfonns in libraries? (It was not, many told us, the most exciting subject for a two day debate). Since the late eighties, the National Preservation Office has been coordinating a national microfilming programme generously funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation of New York....British Library National Preservation Office
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Book
Piecing Together the Jigsaw: the framework for a national preservation strategy for libraries and archives. Proceedings of the National Preservation Office Conference 18-20 September 1995, York
The National Preservation Office (NPO) conferences have gained a reputation for their wide-ranging topics. their sincere attempt to address issues which can be at times difficult to 'pin down', and their down-to-earth approach. Such was the case with the 1995 conference 'Piecing together the jigsaw: the framework for a national...National Preservation Office
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Research report
A Geology of the British Library
Eric Robinson, consultant to Sir Colin Wilson, the architect of the British Library, and a former University College London lecturer and urban geologist produced a free BL booklet several years ago entitled 'A Geology of the British Library' in which he drew our attention to the beautiful geological and paleontological...Robinson, Eric
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Journal article
Your name is not good enough: introducing the ORCID researcher identifier at Imperial College London
The ORCID researcher identifier ensures that research outputs can always reliably be traced back to their authors. ORCID also makes it possible to automate the sharing of research information, thereby increasing data quality, reducing duplication of effort for academics and saving institutions money. In 2014, Imperial College London created ORCID...Reimer, Torsten
ORCID, scholarly communications, research information management, identifier, and Imperial College London
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Dataset
Results From A 2015 Survey On Git/Distributed Version Control At Imperial College London
These are the - anonymised - results from a survey run at Imperial College London in November-December 2015. The survey was aimed at user of distributed version control systems, in particular Git. Before publishing the results I deleted all comments to avoid individuals being identified. The survey was designed to...Reimer, Torsten ; Boakye, Gifty
higher education, survey, Git, distributed version control, and software development