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Research report
Publisher Submission Portal User Survey Report – December 2021
The Publisher Submission Portal is a tool that can be used to deposit born digital publications to the British Library, and other legal deposit libraries, to fufil obligations under legal deposit law. The Portal is designed for use by small publishers, defined as producing 50 or fewer publications per year....Hazell, Lottie
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Journal article
Archival strategies for contemporary collecting in a world of big data: Challenges and opportunities with curating the UK web archive
In this contribution, we will discuss the opportunities and challenges arising from memory institutions' need to redefine their archival strategies for contemporary collecting in a world of big data. We will reflect on this topic by critically examining the case study of the UK Web Archive, which is made up...Bingham, Nicola Jayne ; Byrne, Helena
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Report
Archiving Social Media Workshop Two (June 2019)
The workshop was organised by the British Library Web Archiving Team with support from Maja Maricevic, Head of Higher Education at the British Library on Monday 10th June 2019. The participants at the workshop were a mix of academic researchers, postgraduate research students and information professionals from the British Library,...UK Web Archive
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Research report
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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Research report
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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Report
Archiving Social Media Workshop One (July 2018)
The workshop was organised by the British Library Web Archiving Team with support from Maja Maricevic, Head of Higher Education at the British Library on Monday 16th July, 2019. The participants at the workshop were a mix of academic researchers and information professionals from the British Library, The National Archives...UK Web Archive
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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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Journal article
Dunhuang scrolls: Innovative storage solutions at the British Library
The British Library’s Stein collection contains about 14,000 scrolls, fragments and booklets in Chinese from a cave in the Buddhist Mogao Caves complex near Dunhuang in north-west China. This article describes storage and access solutions for the collection in the context of a busy research library and the currently ongoing...Kralka, Paulina ; Muzart, Marya
conservation, storage, paper, Central Asia, Dunhuang, and scroll
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Journal article
Buddhism and trade: interpreting the distribution of rock-cut monasteries in the Western Ghats mountains, India using least-cost paths
Trade is frequently cited as the primary influence on the florescence of rock-cut Buddhist monasteries in the Western Ghats mountains, India between 200 BCE and 400 CE. Yet the monasteries have been foci of art-historical scholarship without detailed investigation of archaeology and geography. The relationship between monasteries, trade routes, ports...Rees, Gethin
trade, rock-cut monasteries, early historic, Deccan, Buddhism, and Western Ghats
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Policy report
British Library Persistent Identifier Policy
The purpose of this policy is to outline the approach to the use of identifiers and persistent identifiers (PIDs) in internal and external facing British Library systems, to define a consistent set of requirements for PIDs to use when managing and developing services and to articulate the responsibilities in applying...British Library