The Research Information Network (RIN) has been commissioned by the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) to assist them in understanding how the needs of researchers may be met in the development of their new website which will showcase…
Quick postscript to my posting from last month on the enduring web: a useful note from the 21 July workshop on web archiving has been published in the latest issue of Ariadne.…
Web archives need to become a seamless part of the experience of using the web; they are the web’s corporate memory.…
The RIN is holding an event on 14 September 2009 in Glasgow, to raise awareness of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) as a tool for researchers and to aid understanding of the new access regime.…
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The Medical Research Council (MRC) is looking to fund a new data support service to underpin wider access & use of biomedical research data. To this effect, it has just issued a call for proposals. …
This is not particularly fresh news, but perhaps worth mentioning as a reminder of an interesting initiative. We at RIN met today with the British Library person responsible for the UK Web Archiving Consortium; the RIN has had only cursory dealings wi…
I see that according to today?s Daily Telegraph, the BBC will announce later this week a trial of a scheme to make significant portions of its archive material available over the web.…
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