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    Connecting Scotland's sounds: Project summary.
    (2018-01)
    Scotland's Sounds
    Connecting Scotland's Sounds was a two year project championing Scotland's heritage audio recordings. It was largely funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and coordinated by the National Library of Scotland. The project delivered an interlinked programme of knowledge exchange and public engagement activities which took place across Scotland during 2016 and 2017.
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    Unlocking our Sound Heritage: Scotland 2018-2021.
    (2022-03)
    Scotland's Sounds
    The Scottish hub of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project, based at the National Library of Scotland in Kelvin Hall, was tasked with digitising at risk audio recordings, cataloguing them and aiming to clear rights for online access and re-use. Over 3 years the project also facilitated engagement activities to raise the profile of sound archives with both public and professional audiences. The project team have preserved access to over 8,000 recordings from 15 different organisations across Scotland, before the project, were inaccessible due to the fragility of the format and the obsolescence of the playback equipment.
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    Archive of Tomorrow: Capturing public health discourse in the UK Web Archive
    (2023)
    UK Legal Deposit Libraries
    This report provides an overview of the Archive of Tomorrow project, a pilot project and partnership between four UK libraries—the National Library of Scotland, the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library, and Edinburgh University Library. The project was funded by the Wellcome Trust in 2022-2023 with a budget of £230,958. This report summarises the work carried out to collect, describe and engage users with archived web content about health using the UK Web Archive (UKWA). The project outputs include the "Talking about Health" collection, a new curated collection of archived websites in the UKWA; new methodologies for generating and manipulating metadata; and an improved model for clearing rights to make content openly accessible. A wide spectrum of researchers, users, and website creators were reached during the project, many of whom had never before used the archived web. This outreach has provided a sound basis for future targeted engagement. The insights gained during the project show the value and importance of the UK's legal deposit web archive and the vital need for technical and legislative change to realise its potential more fully. Throughout the project, the Archive of Tomorrow team has developed a nuanced understanding of the ethical complexities of working with ever-changing health information and online content which may be inaccurate, obsolete, or deliberately misleading. Much practical progress has been made during this pilot project, but significant questions remain about the future of research into health and other key contemporary topics dependent on information shared online. These issues require further research and public engagement to achieve more widespread impact. Edinburgh, UK
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    Evaluating the EDI Collecting Project 2022–2023
    (2023-09-15)
    Stratton, Nicola
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    Hawley, Graeme
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    Hart, Patrick
    The Library Plan for the 2022/2023 reporting year included a goal to "target 100 selected organisations to enhance representative collecting" across potentially under-represented communities via Legal Deposit. This was set as an objective in support of Strategic Priority 1.4 "we will work to address the silences in the collections to ensure a richer and more representative variety of voices, views and experiences of 21st century Scotland are collected and curated". A list of 100 organisations was drawn up by curators in General Collections. The Acquisitions Team investigated the deposit status of these organisations and made contact to set up or resume deposit where necessary and possible. This report evaluates the success of the project, to inform decision making regarding whether to repeat the project and, if so, whether the approach taken should be adjusted for maximum impact in the future. The report also discusses to what extent these findings may apply to Legal Deposit collecting activities more generally.
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    Collecting the Scottish Web at NLS – a report of a census
    (2024-10)
    Thomson, Trevor
    The UK Web Archive (UKWA) has existed since 2004.1 Established by the British Library and the other United Kingdom Legal Deposit Libraries it was used initially to target and collect websites for organisations who had granted permission for their material to be collected. With the extension of the UK Legal Deposit privilege in 2013 an annual crawl of the UK web domain was initiated by the British Library where a copy of most UK websites is made without the need to seek permission. The vast quantity of material collected in the UK Web Archive exists because of this automated crawl. However, targeting sites using the UKWA curation module, where intervention is made by a curator to specify material to be collected, occurs for a number of different reasons: 1. To add a website or a constituent of a site to a collection attached to a topic, event or other collection. A good example is the COVID-19 outbreak. 2. To give description to a website and attach subject or collection information. 3. To ensure that a website for a UK based organisation or individual overlooked by the annual automated crawl is copied. 4. A combination of all of the above. The annual crawl is mainly based on location of internet service provider attributed to websites and the presence of.uk, .scot suffixes (among others). For UK sites it is not always certain that these automatically apply, and in these circumstances automated collection is missed. The National Library of Scotland has added considerably to the UK Web Archive by identifying websites relating to Scotland that would have in all likelihood missed being collected by the annual domain crawl, as well as giving more nuance to sites that are included in that crawl.
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