At the start of the year, one of our team left on maternity leave (and has recently had a happy and healthy daughter for which we all send our hearty congratulations!) For the duration of her maternity leave, we have a new Digital Archivist, who has spent the first three months of her post picking… Read more Meet Our New Digital Archivist!
As a major project to safeguard our most significant collection of film comes to a close, Digital Archivist Cassandra reflects on one of her favourite collections. — I first encountered Windrose Rural Media Trust back in 2013 when I was invited to look at the extensive collection and assess whether we would preserve it at… Read more A Century of Sights and Sounds
We have records in our archive from 1900s, 1800s, 1700s and even as far back as 965 AD, over 1000 years old. These records are stored in our strong room and will be safely preserved there for many years to come. Interestingly, it is items which were created in the 21st Century which are at… Read more Keeping Your Bits Safe
Whilst many people have used the past few months to sort out their physical belongings, it is easy to forget that our digital estate also needs managing. So, we’re sharing some practical tips to help manage your own digital information. This can be anything from research notes and family photos to emails and financial spreadsheets. Why? Digital information is more fragile than paper stored in… Read more Cyber Trees and Virtual Woods: Looking after your digital records
During this period where many of us are in effect house-bound, we thought that it would be useful to revisit the basis on which the Dorset History Centre (DHC) was established in 1955 – i.e. to preserve and make accessible archives and to ask the question ‘what are archives?’ and ‘why should we keep them?’… Read more Archives – what they are and what you can do with them?
Weekly at the Dorset History Centre we receive a range of collections from various bodies, from public institutions to private collectors. As an archive, most of the collections are paper or parchment format, and are stored in the thousands of boxes in the strong-rooms. To both assist online demand and to preserve the documents with… Read more Digital Preservation at DHC
Digital preservation is the practice which will determine if and how we access electronically-held data in the future. Sam Johnston, the County Archivist, was recently lucky enough to attend the Digital Preservation Coalition’s awards ceremony in Amsterdam. A real hardship, you might say! Sam was very pleased to be asked – foreign travel rarely features… Read more Going Dutch for digital preservation!
‘Digital’ is all around us, every day. Working in archives is no different. We are just as interested in your photographs, meeting minutes or maps in a digital format as we were in paper. If something has historical value and will be interesting to be people in 50 or 100 years then we want to… Read more Archives A-Z: D is for digital
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