According to this ChannelWeb blog entry, Google has started an ambitious project to digitally archive millions of pages of old newspapers. In 2006, Google started working with the New York Times and the Washington Post to index existing digital archives and make them searchable via Google’s search technology. The new effort expands that initiative, with [...]
According to this announcement on the Library and Archives Canada Web site dated 02008 09 02, LAC launched a new online database, Second World War Service Files: Canadian Armed Forces War Dead. Through this online database, researchers can access references to the service files in the Department of National Defence Fonds (RG 24) for the [...]
The University of Saskatchewan Archives recently launched an attractive and, dare I say, compelling virtual exhibit that will draw you right in. It’s called Persuasion: Print Advocacy and Advertising on the Prairies. Right after looking at it I had a sudden craving for a can of Spork, elsewhere known as Spam.
The Library and Archives Canada launched its free name-searchable 1881 Canadian census database with digitized images on August 6, 02008. This is an amazing resource. Previously you could search the 1881 Canadian census by name through the FamilySearch.org site and that site supplied its index which are now linked to the digitized census schedules. You [...]
Duke University Libraries have launched the OLE Project — Open Library Environment — Web site. According to the project description from June 14, 02008, which was part of the libraries’ submission to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its successful grant application to help fund this project, … Duke University will lead a multinational group [...]
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 [...]
Leheigh University (Bethlehem, PA, USA) recently launched a historical GIS project called Beyond Steel. Here’s the description from the front page: The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project is comprised of the early twentieth-century Sanborn fire insurance maps, Sholes’ Directory of the Bethlehems, 1900-1901, 1900-1902 Bethlehem Steel employee lists, a contemporary database of streets, and selected [...]
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 [...]
According to the Project Introduction for the North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project, The joint project of the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis will focus on collection and preservation of digital geospatial data resources from state and local government agencies in North Carolina. The objectives [...]
Update for 02008 07 21: July 22, 02008 marks the official debut of version 1.0.x of the ICA-AtoM software at the International Council on Archives Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia. I’ve been spending an average of a couple of hours each day since late April 02008 helping test the software. I’m even more impressed than [...]
Curious about BiblioCommons now that you’ve read about in Library Journal and are as frustrated as I am about the 12-person company’s Web site that consists of a single page with three outdated testimonials? You can run through this Adobe Captivate tour of the Oakville Public Library’s beta test or you can dig right in [...]
Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent Archiving or SHAMAN is a European-funded project to “develop and test a next generation digital preservation framework including tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data across libraries and archives. … The development work will be structured around four core components whose objectives can be described [...]
Digital Preservation Europe has released its European Quarterly Preservation Digest that summarizes European-funded digital preservation projects and other information from organizations such as PLANETS, CASPAR, LIWA, SHAMAN, DRAMBORA and DPE. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02008 07 14
This looks like a fascinating conference; mapping mythical and imaginary places is a subject that’s always appealed to me: Maps, Myths and Narratives: Cartography of the Far North 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography, July 12-17, 2009. Location: The Black Diamond, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark Call for Papers Date: 2009-07-12 Date Submitted: 2008-07-09 [...]
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 [...]
Archives New Zealand (Te Rua Mahara o te KÄwanatanga), the national public archives, has a nice section on its Continuum site about Digital Recordkeeping.
From the announcement on the Archives & Archivists list (02008 06 27): EAD at 10: a symposium Sunday, August 31st [02008], 9 am – 4 pm, Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 1998 was a year that saw the introduction of Viagra, the iMac, and Euro coins. John Glenn returned to space via the Space [...]
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
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
While visiting the City of Vancouver Archives Web site on June 16, 02008, I couldn’t help but notice an ad for the Bullen Photo Co. at 518 West Hastings St. in Vancouver. What caught my eye was the clearly demonic or devilish figure beneath the camera’s focusing cloth. Harry Elder Bullen (1880-1963), otherwise known as [...]
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 the Archives & Archivists mailing list (02008 06 13): DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects April 1â€3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/ The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital [...]
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 [...]
In a historic first in Canada, the Vancouver Public Library and the Library and Archives Canada have partnered to establish a wiki in support of a project called Chinese-Canadians: Profiles from a Community. The wiki is also part of a larger VPL-led initiative on Chinese-Canadian Genealogy. The Library and Archives Canada also released a database [...]
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 [...]
From the About page of the Data-PASS site: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a broad-based partnership devoted to identifying, acquiring and preserving data at-risk of being lost to the social science research community. Examples of at-risk data include opinion polls, voting records, large-scale surveys on family growth and income, and [...]
The United Kingdom’s JISC has published its study Keeping Research Data Safe: A Cost Model and Guidance for UK Universities. According to independent consultant Neil Beagrie’s post to DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 05 14), “Although focused on UK universities in particular, it should be of interest to anyone involved with research data or interested generally in the costs of [...]
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