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British Library to archive UK websites

Finally, the British Library has been granted the necessary legal powers to archive websites based in the UK (with .uk domain names and others hosted in the UK). These powers are similar to those that require every publisher in the UK to provide copies of printed publications to the BL. An increasing amount of information [...]

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Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization

At CAAUK last week there was some discussion of Adobe PDF files being used to archive and disseminate information, and the dangers of using what is still a proprietary format. It looks like that’s about to change. Whilst going through my RSS feeds this morning, a story on TechCrunch stood out. Adobe are going to [...]

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