Jake Bickford (@jeb2020.bsky.social)

Jake Bickford

@jeb2020.bsky.social

Web Archivist at The National Archives, UK. Interested in the history and provenance of digital collections, sustainable web archiving and the early government web. Own views.

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Jake Bickford

@jeb2020.bsky.social

Brilliant news! So pleased to see this wonderful resource back in action after so much hard work by our friends at the UKWA

Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social

The UK Web Archive https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en has relaunched and is now available to use for free from our Reading Rooms in St Pancras and Boston Spa. Web archives are collected under Legal Deposit, which means some websites are only available on site. #UKWA #WebArchives

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Melissa Terras

@melissaterras.bsky.social

New blog post from @designinf.bsky.social PhD student David Mahoney, revealing patterns of survival, archival coverage, and institutional blind spots across decades of the web, in a computational approach to visualising web archives, looking at 30 years of ed.ac.uk blogs.ed.ac.uk/digipres/202...

blogs.ed.ac.ukStrata: Uncovering the Layers of the Archived Web – Bits & Pieces

Jake Bickford

@jeb2020.bsky.social

Very excited to have opened our call for more student placements working on creating special collections in the UK Government Web Archive - I've loved working with our students so far! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

nationalarchives.gov.ukCreating case studies using the UK Government Web ArchiveExplore one of the world’s largest openly accessible web archives and create a case study or a themed collection celebrating an area of your choice.

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