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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
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Enabling use of DOIs for data citation in longitudinal studies: A report on the DataCite UK Workshop for CLOSER
The UK’s longitudinal studies (including cohort and household panel studies) have been making their data available to researchers beyond their immediate staff for decades. Over this time, they have developed various models of data sharing and citation that have increased the value of the data collected. DataCite was created in...British Library
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The Present Past of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Israeli Archaeology in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967
As in many contested regions, the past is always present in the Middle East conflict. Here, however, the past has far greater weight than any other region, and archaeologists are those that give the distant past a palpable, physical expression. In this sense, archaeology and politics have always been intertwined....Greenberg, Raphael ; Keinan, Adi
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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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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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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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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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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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Patterns of information use and exchange: case studies of researchers in the life sciences
Scientific advances, the availability of powerful new information and communications technologies, and new policies governing research funding have brought major changes for life science researchers. Together these developments have significantly altered both their needs and their practices in acquiring, generating and using information resources. In this context, our key aim...Research Information Network ; British Library ; Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation ; Digital Curation Centre
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Information handling in collaborative research: an exploration of five case studies
Between October 2010 and June 2011, TNS-BMRB conducted a study on behalf of the Research Information Network (RIN) and the British Library (BL), exploring the challenges to information handling in collaborative research and providing recommendations for potential interventions to help to enhance effectiveness.Jordan, Elizabeth ; Hunter, Andrew ; Seale, Becky ; Thomas, Andrew ; Levitt, Ruth …