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Quality Assurance in the New Media Writing Prize Collection
The UK Web Archive is an online repository for UK based websites. Managed by the six UK Legal Deposit Libraries—the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University, Cambridge University Libraries, and the Trinity College, Dublin—the UK Web Archive's chief...Pyke, Tegan
Emerging Formats, digital preservation, British Library PhD placement, web archiving, digital storytelling, and New Media Writing Prize
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Data Study Group Final Report: The National Archives, UK: Discovering Topics and Trends in the UK Government Web Archive
The challenge we address in this report is to make steps towards improving search and discovery of resources within this vast archive for future archive users, and how the UKGWA collection could begin to be unlocked for research and experimentation by approaching it as data (i.e. as a dataset at...Beavan, David ; Nanni, Federico
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Data Study Group Final Report: Smart monitoring for conservation areas
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) monitors over 250,000 protected areas (e.g. national parks and nature reserves) and thousands of other sites and critical habitats. These sites are the foundation of global natural assets and are central to the preservation of biodiversity and human well-being. Unfortunately, they face increasing pressures... -
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Living with Machines Delivery Plan version 1, 2019
Living with Machines is a five-year collaborative project. It aims to generate new perspectives on the effects of the mechanisation of labour on the lives of ordinary people in Britain during the 'long nineteenth century' (c.1780-1918), by developing computational and historical techniques and research questions for working with historical sources....Ahnert, Ruth ; Beavan, David ; Colavizza, Giovanni ; Farquhar, Adam ; Griffin, Emma …
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UK Web Archive Annual Report April 2020 - March 2021
The UK Web Archive is a shared resource and collaborative activity of the six UK legal deposit libraries. Since April 2013 it has been a cornerstone of our collecting under legal deposit. This report covers an exceptional year, which has highlighted the strengths, resilience and adaptability of staff across the...UK Web Archive
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UK Retail Industry: Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of a thematic website collection initiated as part of the UK Legal Libraries Non-Print Legal Deposit collection building. The proposed collection has been given the working title ““The UK retail industry: changes on the high street””. The objective is to preserve those web...Mattos, Lola
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UK Company Websites: Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of a website collection initiated as part of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries Non-Print Legal Deposit collection building activity. The collection has been given the working title “UK Company Websites”. It aims to establish a rationale for collecting websites of UK companies of...Corsini, Tony
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Persistent Identifiers at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
This case study provides an overview of the use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). RBGE delivers plant science, conservation and education programmes that are underpinned by the world-class RBGE Collections, comprising a Living Collection, a Herbarium collection and Library and Archive collections. Within the...Madden, Frances ; Mitchell, Lorna
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New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) Collection Scoping Document
This document aims to establish the scope of a thematic website collection initiated as part of the CDAS Emerging Formats work. This collection has been given the working title “New Media Writing Prize Collection”. The New Media Writing Prize (NMWP) was established in the UK in 2010 by Bournemouth University,...Rossi, Giulia Carla
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Locating a National Collection interim report
Interim report for Locating a National Collection project funded by AHRC part of the Towards a National Collection programme. Locating a National Collection (LaNC) helps cultural heritage organisations to use location data — such as where objects were made and used or the places they depict and describe — to...Vitale, Valeria ; Rees, Gethin
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Persistent Identifiers at the Natural History Museum
This report describes the use of identifiers and persistent identifiers (PIDs) at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London. The NHM is a visitor attraction and international science centre for natural history collections. It has an extensive research programme and employs approximately 300 research scientists. It is in the midst of...Madden, Frances ; Woodburn, Matt
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Practice Research - Report 1: What is practice research? and Report 2: How can practice research be shared?
Practice research has a history stretching as far back as the earliest human experiments: practice is a method of discovering and sharing new findings about the world that surrounds us. In recent years, scholarly communication has undergone a series of changes that have led to a broadening of the landscape...Bulley, James ; Şahin, Özden
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UKWA Interim Statistics Report Second Quarter 2019
This is the second Web Archiving Statistics Quarterly Report for 2019/2020. It is our intention to distribute this report quarterly (July, October, January, and April) with a more comprehensive report at the end of the financial year. The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) statistics have also been included thanks to...Lelkes-Rarugal, Carlos
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UKWA Interim Statistics Report Third Quarter 2019
This is the third Web Archiving Statistics Quarterly Report for 2019/2020. It is our intention to distribute this report quarterly (July, October, January, and April) with a more comprehensive report at the end of the financial year. The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) statistics have also been included thanks to...Lelkes-Rarugal, Carlos
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UKWA Interim Statistics Report First Quarter 2019
This is the first Web Archiving Statistics Quarterly Report for 2019/2020. It is our intention to distribute this report quarterly (July, October, January, and April) with a more comprehensive report at the end of the financial year. The Hadoop Distributed File System statistics have also been included thanks to Andrew...Lelkes-Rarugal, Carlos
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UKWA Interim Report Third Quarter 2018
This is the third instalment of the Web Archiving Statistics Quarterly Report 2018/2019. Following a review of the previous format of the monthly report, and in consultation with stakeholders, this document aims to convey a clearer, more narrative account of our web archiving statistics, reflecting key figures such as growth...Lelkes-Rarugal, Carlos
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UKWA Interim Report Second Quarter 2018
This is the second instalment of the Web Archiving Statistics Quarterly Report. Following a review of the previous format of the monthly report, and in consultation with stakeholders, this document aims to convey a clearer, more narrative account of our web archiving statistics, reflecting key figures such as growth in...Lelkes-Rarugal, Carlos
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UKWA Interim Statistics Report First Quarter 2018
Covering months: April, May and June (2018).Lelkes-Rarugal, Carlos
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UK Web Archive Statistics December 2017 Quarterly Report
This document replaces our monthly “Web Archiving Statistics” report and is the second report in this new format. Following a review of the monthly report, and in consultation with stakeholders, the new document aims to convey a clearer, more narrative account of our web archiving statistics, reflecting key figures such...Lelkes-Rarugal, Carlos