APPROACHES TO ARCHIVING PROFESSIONAL BLOGS  HOSTED IN THE CLOUD
Early adopters of blogs will have made use of
externally-hosted blog platforms, such as
Wordpress.com and Blogger.com, due, perhaps, to the
lack of a blogging infrastructure within the institution or
concerns regarding restrictive terms and conditions
covering use of such services. There will be cases in
which such blogs are now well-established and contain
useful information not only for current readership but
also as a resource which may be valuable for future
generations.
The need to preserve content which is held on such
third-party services (“the Cloud’) provides a set of new
challenges which are likely to be distinct from the
management of content hosted within the institution, for
which institutional policies should address issues such
as ownership and scope of content. Such challenges
include technical issues, such as the approaches used to
gather the content and the formats to be used and policy
issues related to ownership, scope and legal issues.
This paper describes the approaches taken in
UKOLN, an applied research department based at the
University of Bath, to the preservation of blogs used in
the organisation. The paper covers the technical
approaches and policy issues associated with the
curation of blogs a number of different types of blogs:
blogs used by members of staff in the department; blogs
used to support project activities and blogs used to
support events.
["Kelly, Brian", "Guy, Marieke"]
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