With the assistance of a 2007 grant from the University of British Columbia Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s BC History Digitization Program, the Vancouver Public Library has mostly completed work on its project to digitize its collection of BC and region city directories dating between 1860 and 1901. Though not always reliable as evidence, these [...]
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 [...]
Hope you get my drift pardner. According to this Information Today Newsbreak (02008 07 07), Missouri has launched a free collaborative search portal that integrates millions of historical documents from the state’s local libraries, universities, and cultural institutions in a single web gateway. Powered by Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator (www.deepwebtech.com), Missouri Digital Heritage [...]
The American Geographical Society Library launched a new digital collection titled simply Tibet that consists of historical photographs and maps from its holdings. The digital collection is hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a new addition to the AGSL Digital Collections Portal. For more historical photographs of Tibet see The Tibet Album: British [...]
The third issue of the Code4Lib Journal has some articles on digital preservation and digital archiving. Source: WEB4LIB mailing list, 02008 06 24
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 06 14): Adding value to data – Digital Repositories in the e-Science world Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/) December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net) There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science [...]
According to the June 02008 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter, the Library of Congress and the California Digital Library “have jointly developed a format for transferring digital content. ‘BagIt’ is based on the concept of ‘bag it and tag it,’ where digital content is packaged (the bag) along with a small amount of machine-readable [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 06 05): The JISC-funded UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme has recently been evaluated and the report is now available on the JISC website at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/uklockssevaluation.pdf LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an e-journal archiving system which enables institutions to keep licensed e-journal content on local servers so that [...]
From the Introduction to the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Digital Collection created by the University of Chicago Library: In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besançon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These images were calculated to appeal to the taste for classical antiquity [...]
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 UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which is involved with higher education issues, has launched a Libraries of the Future campaign. The JISC Libraries of the Future blog will keep you current with the ongoing discourse and debate. A special supplement of the Guardian newspaper titled Libraries Unleashed was sponsored by the JISC and [...]
Here’s the announcement on various mailing lists (02008 04 09) about the 4th International Digital Curation Conference, “Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?”: In partnership with the National e-Science Centre we are holding our 4th International Digital Curation Conference on 1-3 December 2008 at the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. The DCC invites the submission of [...]
Some new digital content that’s appeared over the past few months in British Columbia archives and libraries includes: The Colonial Correspondence of Vancouver Island and British Columbia at the University of Victoria, which consists of a searchable database of transcriptions of colonial despatches from and to the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia up [...]
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 a media release I received from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Tuesday afternoon [March 25, 02008], the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) newly created Office of Digital Humanities announced the first JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grant award recipients on behalf of the NEH and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The announcement [...]
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’. [...]
From the announcement on the ARCHIVES mailing list (02008 03 11): Tracking the reel world presents the results of a study on audiovisual collections undertaken in the framework of the TAPE project. Based on data collected from hundreds of organizations from all over Europe, most of them archives, libraries, museums (and research) institutes that hold [...]
The Online Education Database has a great annotated list of more than 250 “killer digital libraries and archives” that it published on October 17, 02007. The list is arranged first by individual states of the United States and then by topic, concluding with a list of directories including the British Columbia Digital Library by yours [...]
The Indiana University Libraries and and the Indiana University Digital Library Program are conducting a pilot project with open access publishing with the Open Journal Systems software from Canada’s Public Knowledge Project. Indiana University calls their service IUScholarWorks Journals. It’s kind of cool and probably just a coincidence that I published an article on PKP in the January [...]
The University of Pittsburgh Library System has digitized its collection of John James Audubon’s Birds of America and his Ornithological Biography. Audubon’s Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh is part of the William M. Darlington Digital Library Collection. The Flash player is required to view the Audubon plates. The site also recommends Internet Explorer version [...]
The Council on Library and Information Resources has released Oya Y. Rieger’s white paper Preservation in an Age of Large-Scale Digitization (February 02008, CLIR Pub 141). Source: DIG_REF mailing list (02008 02 26)
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 02 26) about the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) proposal: The European Commission announced that the proposal from Amsterdam University Press together with five European University Presses within the eContentplus Programme, has been selected for negotiations on funding. The opening of negotiations starts in March 2008. Completion [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (2008 01 30): As of today, the web-published content of the journal Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation (SAGE Publications) has been exported from the CLOCKSS archive, and is now available to the world from two CLOCKSS hosting platforms at universities in Europe and the US. Released under a Creative Commons [...]
The alpha version of the DRIVER project’s repositories portal is up and running. DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) is a European Union-funded infrastructure to support the preservation of and access to scientific data. DRIVER also supports the principles around Open Access. User support for the DRIVER repositories portal is through the Driver [...]
From the front page of the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2008 Conference: The annual international conference and course Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Since its inception in 2000, LIDA has emphasized the examination of contemporary [...]
The Library of Congress has set up its own collection of photos on Flickr and is encouraging the public to tag the collections of photos it’s posted there. The two collections so far are 1930s-40s in color (1,615 photos) and News in the 1910s (1,500 photos). The latter consists of photographs taken by the Bain [...]
The European Digital Library is holding an international conference, One more step towards the European digital library, on 31 January and 1 February 02008 at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Except for getting there and other living expenses while visiting, there is no cost to participate.
The January/February 02008 issue D-Lib Magazine is available. One of the feature articles is titled “Creating Preservation-Ready Web Resources” by Joan A. Smith and Michael L. Nelson, while a couple of others look at institutional repositories and online archiving.
Here’s a description from the front page of American Social History Online, which is pretty darned impressive: Aquifer American Social History Online – Find and use 19th and 20th century primary resources from unique historical digital collections. search diverse digital content from 40 American Social History research collections find more than 230,000 digitized objects in [...]
The Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec launched a new digital collection of maps called America, 1500-1800 in support of its book La mesure d’un continent: atlas historique de l’Amerique du Nord, 1492-1814 (Mapping a Continent: Historical Atlas of North America, 1492-1814, 02007) and the exhibition Ils ont cartographié l’Amérique. America, 1500-1800 is available only [...]
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