Public Records (Scotland) Bill

Live streaming now from Holyrood of the first panel session for the Public Records (Scotland) Bill. Today the panel is hearing from the Keeper of the Records of Scotland and members of the Public Records Bill Team who are giving evidence. View the session here.

Follow an archive day

Friday 12th November is follow an archive day on twitter so what to do about it?

As ever ArchivesNext has it all covered here along with some interesting information about how successful it was for libraries last year. Make sure if you are on twitter and you're going to tweet about archives to use the #followanarchive hashtag

Check out the followanarchive list for new archives to follow and take a look at the promo videos for the day on youtube.

This slideshow is a great guide for getting started on twitter ahead of the day:

Followanarchive

I'm definitely more of a listener than a tweeter on twitter but it is very useful for finding out about what different archives are doing and keeping up to date with things. My top 5 recommendations are:

1. @OrkneyLibrary
2. @UKNatArchives
3. @archivesnext
4. @archivesireland
5. @postalheritage

Round up

I've been a bit busy planning a wedding to post here at all really, but this week I spotted lots of good stuff so thought a quick round up would be appropriate.

A report from NARA on the federal use of Web 2.0.

A global study into online behaviour from Digital Life.

Lots of new UK archive blogs

• DNA & Social Responsibility Project at King's College London
• Enid Blyton Collection at Seven Stories
• NUI Galway Theatre Archive
• Old Weather project
• Archiving a blog

The 2010 state of the blogosphere report is due out on the 3 November here so keep your eyes peeled for that.

Some crowdsourcing from old weather which is a JISC project that is asking members of the public to help transcribe information from Royal Navy logbooks. This will make information about past climate and historical events widely accessible.

Analysis of user contributions to archives.

Do we need index names terms? A discussion from archiveshub.

Behind the scenes at the University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow Archive Services have put together this great video about their collections. It includes information about their collections and shows lots of footage of their 3 miles of shelving and storage facilities.

SOA conference

The SOA conference has been happening all this week, I really wanted to go and hear Paul Sillitoe talk about his work with technical records but couldn't make it.

If you also couldn't make it then you can check the programme here to see what you missed and keep track on twitter via the #soa tag for what's happening.

Sarah Wickham has also been blogging about it here.

Guest post

Another guest post for the UKLON Digital Curation blog, this time on how to make time to do web 2.0 in your working day.

Read it here.

Guest post

I'm guest posting today over at the UKLON Cultural Heritage blog about the benefits of using web 2.0 in your archive.

Read it here.