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National Archives puts Cabinet Office papers online
News The National Archives has placed 500,000 pages of government papers online, accessible free of charge. According to the National Archives, the project, launched on 4 December, 2008, will make these documents more accessible and open a vast amount...
[December 4, 2008, 10:51]
National Archives completes gov't e-records system
News The National Archives has completed its Seamless Flow Programme to automate the preservation of electronic government records. The programme has developed tools and processes so that information created by government can be gathered by the National...
[August 18, 2008, 8:25]
National Archives considers shared data service
News The National Archives is to look at the possibility of a shared service for government departments to take, migrate and preserve digital data. Without active preservation, those e-documents which do survive become obsolete, on average, within seven...
[June 15, 2007, 16:30]
National Archives tackles Microsoft legacy
News The National Archives has teamed up with Microsoft to solve the problem of reading, managing and making accessible data in legacy Microsoft formats that can no longer be read by recent versions of the company's software.
[July 4, 2007, 7:40]
Government web content to join archive
News The National Archives will start copying and making available online all central-government website content from November. David Thomas, the chief information officer of the National Archives, said the main reason for the expansion is to preserve...
[August 20, 2008, 10:31]
Councils struggling with e-archives
News A National Archives survey says that local authorities should introduce strategies to save digital information for posterity. National Archives, the organisation which sets standards and supports innovation in information and records management...
[March 4, 2008, 13:22]
Report backs PDF variant for long-term archiving
News The UK's National Archives has welcomed a report that backs a variant of Adobe's portable document format standard as a reliable way of preserving documents for future use. On Thursday the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), a UK-based not-for...
[April 24, 2008, 17:22]
Millennium of UK history heads online
News The UK's National Archives has set a 2007 deadline to boost its online services and become a leading source of historical information on the internet, according to its latest annual report. In its first year, National Archives has created the first...
[August 20, 2004, 13:55]
FoI opens up intelligence files
News Information contained in more than 50,000 government files previously closed for 30 years is now available at the National Archives, with selected details accessible online following the start of the Freedom of Information Act.
[January 5, 2005, 14:21]
Gov't archive buys petabyte of digital storage
News The National Archives said the new one petabyte capacity — just over one million gigabytes — is equivalent to 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets. David Thomas, director of technology at the National Archives, said: "This is a fantastic step...
[November 12, 2009, 10:37]
HP and MIT team up on open-source archiving
News The importance of open-source approaches to digital archives was highlighted earlier this month when the UK's National Archives released a joint press release with Microsoft, hinting that it intended to migrate some of its documents to the...
[July 18, 2007, 16:23]
File Formats - MS v OpenOffice
Talkback For older versions of MS formats Microsoft made the National Archives (UK) use Vista running Windows Virtual PC running Windows 3.11 running Office 95 (which all require licences per machine). After blocking older file formats in Office 2003, they...
[January 29, 2008, 17:13]
Raiders of the lost archive
Leader The UK's National Archives (NA) is in the process of finding out how true that statement is. Back in 1995, Rand Corporation computer scientist Jeff Rothenberg noted a disheartening fact about digital objects: the things that make them difficult to...
[July 5, 2007, 17:41]
British Library plans to archive whole UK Web
News The consortium, led by the British Library, includes the Wellcome Trust, the National Archives and the Scottish and Welsh national libraries. A trial project to archive 6,000 UK Web sites was announced on Tuesday by the UK Web Archiving Consortium.
[June 24, 2004, 15:00]
OpenDocument alliance 'optimistic' about ISO certification
News It now has a total of 138 members, including government bodies such as the City of Bloomington in Indiana, the National Archives of Australia and Bristol City Council. The ODF Alliance and its members have contacted various national voting entities...
[April 20, 2006, 12:05]
Government intellectual property under scrutiny
News Members include Becta, the British Library, the Cabinet Office's e-Government Unit, the Department for Education & Skills (DfES), the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and The National Archives.
[June 30, 2005, 16:05]
Digital rights case could set crucial precedent
News To quell fears about incomplete archives, the judges urged a lower court to consider ordering National Geographic to pay the photographer for his work rather than pull the images from the package, writing, "we urge the court to consider...
[March 28, 2001, 9:03]
Wisespent 3.1c
Downloads Archives - Quick access to previous months and to previous years with the built-in archive. Multi-currencies - Support USD, GDP and Euro or your national currency (define by your own). Wisespent is a complete Finance Manager/Expense Tracker for...
[February 14, 2006, 6:00]
Companies told to clamp down on IM use
News Companies are being advised to keep archives of all their IM communications for at least three years. The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), the US regulator of the Nasdaq and securities market, told its members to treat instant...
[June 19, 2003, 11:23]
JFK archives to be put online
News The 10-year project to build a new digital library is a joint collaboration between IT vendor EMC, the Kennedy Presidential Library and the US National Archives and Records Administration. The archives of the Kennedy Presidential Library's research...
[June 13, 2006, 11:00]
