About
This blog is written by me (Alastair Dunning, The Hague) and is largely about online digitised content in higher education, cultural heritage and beyond.
It covers fields such as digitisation, digital humanities, open data, business models and any other issues germane to digital content on the Internet.
It includes blog posts and presentations done by me in my current role as Programme Manager at The European Library and my previous role as Programme Manager for the JISC Digitisation Programme, and also includes other items related to my professional work.
The opinions expressed on these pages are those of the author alone and not necessarily those my employer. Further professional details available on LinkedIn.

Just letting you know that your blog is one of my picks for BlogDay 2007 over on Spellboundblog.com. Thanks!
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Dear Alastair Dunning,
I am writing on behalf of the “Internet Working Group”, a group within the PDF/A Competence Center founded to increase awareness of PDF/A on the internet.
PDF/A is the new ISO standard for the long-term archiving of electronic documents. We believe that PDF/A is one of the hottest topics in the PDF world, with a search trend that will continue to grow. The aim of the PDF/A Competence Center is to promote the exchange of information and experience in the area of long-term archiving in accordance the standard.
We’d like to work with you to encourage a stronger online presence for PDF/A. Would you consider posting a link to the PDF/A Competence Center on your Web site? By affiliating with the PDF/A Competence Center, you’re potential customers will have better access to credible information about PDF/A. We are confident that by helping promote adoption rates, your business will benefit from this partnership.
Please let me know what you and your colleagues think about this idea and don’t hesitate to contact me if you have questions about the PDF/A standard
Regards, on behalf of the PDF/A Competence Center,
Jaime Merz
jamie.merz@pdfa.org
info@pdfa.org
(408) 294 6966