The Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, has published for electronic download as a PDF file or viewing online using the Issuu Inc. social publishing service and viewer Science Dissemination using Open Access: A Compendium of Selected Literature on Open Access, edited by E. [...]
Update for 02008 07 31: The Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments was released at the 2008 ICA Congress in three modules as Adobe Acrobat PDF files: Module 1: Overview and Statement of Principles Module 2: Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems Module 3: Guidelines and Functional Requirements [...]
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 07 15): The July/August 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, a project update, two conference reports from JCDL 2008, the ‘In Brief’ column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in ‘Clips and [...]
The European Commission’s Science in Society Programme and the German Commission for UNESCO have jointly published Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges: a Handbook in print and electronic editions. The English version is a translation of the German one originally published by the German Commission for UNESCO in 2007. You can download the 2008 English edition [...]
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report titled Federal Records: National Archives and Selected Agencies Need to Strengthen E-Mail Management (GAO-08-742, June 02008; Adobe Acrobat PDF, 1.19MB).
The third issue of the Code4Lib Journal has some articles on digital preservation and digital archiving. Source: WEB4LIB mailing list, 02008 06 24
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 7(2), 02008, is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_7_2.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02008 06 24
According to the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 05 15) and other lists, The May/June 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, a conference report, the ‘In Brief’ column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in ‘Clips and Pointers’. This [...]
The Digital Preservation Coalition hopes to stimulate further discussion around the suitability of the Adobe Acrobat PDF file format as the preservation format for static documents. You can read about their adovacy in their latest Technology Watch Report 08-02 titled Preserving the Data Explosion: Using PDF and authored by Betsy A. Fanning. Naturally, it’s a [...]
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 7(1), 02008, is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_7_1.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02008 04 10
Update for 02008 04 04: The PREMIS Editorial Committee is pleased to announce the release of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.0. This document is a revision of Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final report of the PREMIS Working Group, issued in May 2005. The PREMIS Data Dictionary and its supporting documentation [...]
As announced on various mailing lists (02008 04 04): Issue no. 17 (September 2007 – February 2008) of the DPC “What’s New in Digital Preservation” bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/issue17.html “What’s New” will also be available shortly on the following website: National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/index.html “What’s New” [...]
From the DIGLIB mailing list announcement (02008Â 03 17): The March/April 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains two commentaries (one of which has two parts), three articles, the ‘In Brief’ column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in ‘Clips and Pointers’. [...]
Here are a couple of how-to resources from 02007 and 02008 for digitizing analog sound: Audio Tape Digitisation Workflow: Digitisation workflow for analogue open reel tapes by Juha Henriksson (Finnish Jazz & Pop Archive) and Nadja Wallaszkovits (Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences), TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe), 02008 Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio [...]
I was pleasantly surprised to have received a copy of the latest monograph from the American Library Association’s TechSource Library Technology Reports series (ISSN 0024-2586). This just happened to be on the topic of my blog, and the cover letter suggested that any comments about this issue should include a link back to the TechSource [...]
The Horizon Report 2008 Edition from the New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative is available as a PDF download. It was officially released on January 29, 02008 at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting. The report look at these six technologies: Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less: Grassroots Video Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less: Collaboration [...]
I stumbled across a link to Catherine C. Marshall’s blog the other day. She’s a Senior Researcher with Microsoft Corporation, a member of the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries Texas A&M University, and the lead author of “The Long Term Fate of Our Digital Belongings: Toward a Service Model for Personal Archives”, available [...]
From the announcement to WEB4LIB (02007 12 17): Code4Lib Journal covers the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. Read Volume 1 issue 1 of this OPENACCESS journal ONLINE now at http://journal.code4lib.org/. ISSN: 1940-5758
Professor Richard J. Cox and a group of his archival studies students have writing an amazing article that was published in First Monday, vol. 12, no. 11, 5 November 02007: “Machines in the Archives: Technology and the Coming Transformation of Archival Reference.” This is essential reading for anyone wondering about Archives and Web 2.0 intersections.
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 6(3) is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_3.htm. According to the announcement I received, “The core of DDQ 6(3) is the beginning of a critique of Information Science. This critique, planned to continue in future DDQ numbers, explores the proposition that Information Science will not resolve current uncertainties about its place as an [...]
Quoting from the announcement on various mailing lists: “Issue no. 16 (April – August 2007) of the DPC/PADI “What’s New in Digital Preservation” bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site and the National Library of Australia’s PADI Web site: Digital Preservation Coalition: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/issue16.html National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/qdigest/dpc-padi-digest-issue16-2007.html “What’s New” is [...]
The September 02007 issue of D-Lib Magazine is online. Most of the articles deal with institutional/digital repositories.
Here’s a great looking ezine called Digital Web Magzine. Thanks to David Kemper for pointing it out.
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02007 09 14): “The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) seeks public comment on a white paper examining preservation issues relevant to large-scale digitization projects such as those being done by Google, Microsoft, and the Open Content Alliance. The paper, Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, was written [...]
A new issue, vol. 4, no. 2 of Webology, an Open Access journal, is available. Update for 02007 09 08: This turns out to be my 2,000th post.
Issue 52 (Summer 02007) of Ariadne is out. The theme of this issue appears to be digital or institutional repositories. Ariadne is published by UKOLN, University of Bath, England.
Update for 02007 08 16: In hockey this is called a hat trick: three goals scored by one player in a single game. Topping off the recent spate of InterPARES 2 publications on the preservation of electronic records and the most significant in my opinion is A Framework of Principles for the Development of Policies, [...]
The first issue of the International Journal of Digital Curation, published by UKOLN at the University of Bath and a publication of the Digital Curation Centre, has appeared (I’m not exactly sure when because I haven’t done any checking) with a date of Autumn 2006. The journal uses the Public Knowledge Project open source Open [...]
Update for 02007 07 24: The special issue on digital preservation of the International Journal on Digital Libraries published by Spring is available. You can view the table of contents here, as well as order article reprints as PDF files. The prices for the latter are ridiculously high — $32 US each, so the entire [...]
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 6(2) is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_2.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02007 07 18
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