title: APPROACHES TO ARCHIVING PROFESSIONAL BLOGS  HOSTED IN THE CLOUD
creators: Brian Kelly Marieke Guy
abstract: 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.