Documenting the pandemic and beyond: website captures for the University Archives available to view
April 17, 2023
This is a post by Laura Peaurt, Digital Preservation Officer and Sarah Colborne, Archivist (Collections). Capture and Preservation In a previous blog we discussed using Preservica, our digital preservation platform, to successfully capture websites and social media for the archive. This is known as web archiving. The tools provided by the platform allow us to …
Welcome Back Part 2: The Re-Re-Opening
March 29, 2021
For the last few months, only University of Nottingham staff/students have been able to visit the Reading Room, but as of the 13th April, we plan to reopen to the public, in line with Government advice. If you haven’t visited before or it’s been a while, here’s what to expect: Booking a Sit-and-Study space in …
Digital Collecting for the University Archives
May 6, 2020
Manuscripts and Special Collections may be working from home but we’re still busy developing and implementing our new digital preservation system, Preservica. Preservica helps us to manage and preserve our existing born-digital collections as well as collect official university records for the archive in digital formats such as Microsoft Office files (such as meeting minutes), emails, video and photographs. …
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