Web Archiving

Error 404? The horror, The horror!

by Bean an Phoist on August 14, 2012 · 0 comments

in Digital Collections,Online Resources,Oscail,Projects

Have your say on Web Archiving at the National Library of Ireland by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student While it probably hasn’t quite made it into the Oxford English dictionary yet, the 404 File Not Found web error message has certainly moved beyond the realm of the technical and technical slang, and has now come [...]

Tagged as: 404, Catherine Ryan, Digital preservation, Error 404, Internet Memory Foundation, Kalev H. Leetaru, Preservation, TheJournal.ie, Web Archiving, Web crawling

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We love…

by Bean an Phoist on February 14, 2012 · 2 comments

in Cataloguing,Collections,Digital Collections,Manuscripts,Prints & Drawings

Bean an Phoist says: A few weeks ago, I asked NLI staff to pick things they love in our collections (maybe also about love) and to write about them for Valentine’s Day. Those who weren’t nimble enough to avoid me since then, are included here. And there will be two other posts today – Honora [...]

Tagged as: Della Murphy, Dragon, Emma Lyons, Giada Gelli, Katherine McSharry, Leonie Jerome, Leslie Papers, Love Letter, O'Casey's Codex, Rosamond Praeger, Sean O'Casey, Sir John Leslie, TheJournal.ie, Web Archiving

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Behind the scenes

by Bean an Phoist on November 23, 2011 · 0 comments

in Collections,Digital Collections,Digitisation,Oscail,Projects,Research

by Jenny Doyle, Oscail Programme Manager While the National Library holds wonderful collections of rare and antiquarian books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints and drawings (some of which you’ve read about on this very blog) one of our other jobs is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible today’s and indeed tomorrow’s books, newspapers, manuscripts, etc. [...]

Tagged as: 1918, 2011 General Election, Born-digital, Daguerreotypes, Dylan Haskins, Election posters, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Collection, Jenny Doyle, Miss Coddington, Oscail, Oscail Programme, Oscail Programme Manager, Presidential Election, Sinn Féin, Twitpic, Twitter, Web Archiving