Save our Stories (SOS): digital heritage in danger. Reflections on the digital business records of the Transport Initiatives Edinburgh.
The Business Archives Councils of England, Wales and Scotland have joined forces to present Business Bites. We invite everyone with an interest in business archives to this informal event series where current challenges, successes and ideas are shared at a lunchtime meeting.
Theme: Preservation of Digital Records
Where: Online
When: 5th November 2026, 12.30 – 13.30
Join us this World Digital Preservation Day to hear more about a project to preserve complex digital heritage.
This talk shares a project undertaken by the Edinburgh City Archive, as part of the National Archives’ Archives Revealed programme, to catalogue and preserve the digital records of Transport Initiatives Edinburgh Ltd (TIE Ltd), a public-private partnership (PPP) and arms-length external organisation (ALEO) of the Council.
Between 2002 and 2011, TIE Ltd managed several large-scale infrastructure projects across Edinburgh, including the contentious development of the Edinburgh Trams network, which later became the subject of a public inquiry.
It will review the efforts of the Edinburgh City Archive to respond to the ‘SOS’ to preserve the digital legacy of the Edinburgh Trams project and TIE Ltd, and the collaborative efforts of the Business Archives Council of Scotland, the Digital Preservation Coalition, the Centre for Business History of Scotland, and the wider City of Edinburgh Council to achieve this outcome. The project highlights some of the opportunities and challenges in managing and preserving large digital archives.
Speaker: Ray Moore is an Archives and Records Officer (Digital) with the City of Edinburgh Council who works with the digital legacy, records, and archives of the Council, its predecessor bodies, and the broader community. Ray was seconded to the ‘The Last Stop, Newhaven: Cataloguing the Digital Legacy of Transport Initiatives Edinburgh Ltd and the Edinburgh Trams (2002-2011)’ project, funded by the UK National Archives and part of the Archives’ Revealed programme.
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