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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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Technical report
Supporting documents for selected '14-18 NOW' project websites in the UK Web Archive
This series of PDFs was created by Anisa Hawes, independent researcher and archivist, to accompany a collection of archived websites produced for the '14-18 NOW' project, by the Imperial War Museum between 2018 and 2019. The PDFs provide metadata and contextual information to support navigation of the archived websites, which...Hawes, Anisa
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Research report
Technology report: Web-archiving
Web archiving technology enables the capture, preservation and reproduction of valuable content from the live web in an archival setting, so that it can be independently managed and preserved for future generations. This report introduces and discusses the key issues faced by organizations engaged in web archiving initiatives, whether they...Pennock, Maureen
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Research report
European Documentation Centres: Challenges for the EDCs’ work in the 21st century
This e-catalogue on 'The challenges for the EDCs’ work in the 21st century' has been produced to confront three important challenges which EDCs are facing in their daily work. The EDC Pan-European Working Group 2012-13 has discussed these challenges and would like to share its findings with the rest of...Directorate-General for Communication (European Commission)
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Policy report
British Library open access policy for staff research outputs
The Living Knowledge vision of the British Library is to make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment. An important element of this heritage is the research output of staff of the British Library. Therefore, the aim of this policy is to ensure the wider dissemination...British Library
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Research report
The future of research outputs: Summary of roundtable discussion co-hosted by the British Library and RAND Europe
On the 17th February 2020, British Library and RAND Europe convened a roundtable discussion on the future of research outputs. Since the workshop we have all been challenged by the profound changes to our lives and research caused by COVID-19, a crisis which re-focused a worldwide research effort in search...Maricevic, Maja
data management, persistent identifiers, EThOS, Research England, UK Web Archive, research communication, and research outputs
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Research report
Architecture Review for Advancing Hyku Project
This report is a deliverable of the Advancing Hyku: Open Source Institutional Repository Platform Development” project, funded by Arcadia—a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The purpose of this document is to review the architecture and design of the Hyku implementation of British library, with reference to...Sundar, Rathin
repository, British Library, Samvera, Advancing Hyku, and Hyku
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Research report
Archiving Interactive Narrative: UK Tools Usage (1.1)
This study aimed to gain a preliminary overview of the Interactive Fiction works being created in the UK and the tools being used by UK-based creators. It was limited to items which would be encompassed by the Legal Deposit Framework and those which were online only and could therefore be...Clark, Lynda
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Research report
Archiving Interactive Narrative: Technical Report (1.3)
Tools used were W3ACT and Webrecorder. W3ACT, or ACT, the Annotation Curation Tool is Open Source software designed by The British Library to help librarians, curators and subject specialists curate specific parts of the Web. It interfaces with the Heritrix crawl engine built by the Internet Archive. Both ACT and...Clark, Lynda
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Research report
UK Web Archive Annual Report 2019
This report collates the quarterly web archiving statistical reports from the preceding year (1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020). It mostly covers headline statistics but also highlights other notable areas of interest, such as collection development and projects that have either been completed or are still ongoing. The report...UK Web Archive