Category: Technology and innovation Behind the scenesHow to move a 120 TB web archive to the cloud in two weeksFriday 11 May 2018Building a resource as big as the UK Government Web Archive takes a lot...Records and researchCatalogue as data: hacking the paperThursday 3 May 2018A little while ago I produced a couple of blogs looking at how you...Behind the scenesPreparing a highly fragmented book for digitisationFriday 27 April 2018At The National Archives, before a historical document is digitised, it passes through a...Archives and archivistsDigital archiving: ‘Context is everything’Thursday 19 April 2018Related podcast: Digital Archives of the Future What’s the difference between an archive and...Behind the scenesMachines reading the archive: handwritten text recognition softwareMonday 19 March 2018Any researcher who has used online newspaper archives, repositories of digitised books or even...Managing informationDigital archiving: the seven pillars of metadataWednesday 14 March 2018Two of the key challenges facing The National Archives in the digital age are the...Archives and archivistsManage Your Collections: new version now liveTuesday 13 March 2018The National Archives has been collecting records of archival collections from across the UK...Archives and archivistsBeyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record TreasuryFriday 9 February 2018The Four Courts complex in Dublin was destroyed on 30 June 1922, in the...Archives and archivistsCatalogue as Data: the Prize Papers from the 2nd Anglo-Dutch WarThursday 1 February 2018In my last blog I highlighted the opportunities of using cataloguing as an historical dataset,...Behind the scenesModelling our digital archival dataFriday 26 January 2018The National Archives’ Digital Strategy (2017-19) identifies the challenges we face as we become a...Archives and archivistsCatalogue as Data: the basicsWednesday 24 January 2018Any researcher interested in working with historical data knows that the most difficult and...Records and researchHow to read 43,000 cabinet papersWednesday 20 December 2017I used to spend a chunk of my time pretending to be Winston Churchill... « 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 18 »
