Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists by Fred R. Byers. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, October 2003, 48 p. ISBN 1-932326-04-9. Available for free download as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
The School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley concluded its study How Much Information? (2003) and results are available online. The study attempted to determine how much information is produced in a single year, in this case 2002. Comparisons are made to an earlier study from 2000 that used [...]
According to the Globe and Mail, an amendment to the Canadian Copyright Act with amendments was passed by Parliament’s House of Commons. Senate approval is required before Royal Assent makes the bill law. The original bill, whose primary intention was legalizing the merger of the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada [...]
The Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management Web site contains a virtual exhibit, with digitized film footage, of the 1917 Halifax Explosion.
Consortium of Heritage Groups Unveils New Online Resource Vintage Photos Tell Comprehensive Story of Seattle and King County History After two years of work, twelve Seattle and King County heritage organizations led by the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) and the University of Washington Libraries has launched a new website that provides unparalleled access [...]
The Visual Resources Association is pleased to announce that three additional chapters are now available on the Web site for Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and their Images, known as CCO at http://www.vraweb.org/CCOweb/index.html. These three new chapters address Physical Characteristics (Chapter 3), Stylistic and Chronological Characteristics (Chapter 4) and Description (Chapter [...]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and National Cancer Institute, published a 128 page book titled Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines: Current Research-Based Guidelines on Web Design and Usability Issues, which you can download as a single Adobe Acrobat PDF file (39.2 MB), or individually by chapter.
The new ERPANET Newsletter, featuring information on upcoming ERPANET events, resources and services in the area of digital preservation, can be downloaded or read online as a one page Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
The ARMA International Educational Foundation published Legal Obstacles to E-Mail Message Destruction online as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
“Clay key to spark of life: study” says a CBC News report on a new study to be reported in Science. Source: CBC News
The Web version of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/ Dictionaire biographique du Canada (DCB/DBC) was launch on October 24, 2003, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the conference of the Association for Canadian Studies, Presence of the Past. Source: ARCAN-L, 2003-10-27
Quoting from the start page: The European Visual Archive (EVA) is a searchable image resource containing historical photographs dating from 1840 up to today. The photographs originate from the collections of the London Metropolitan Archives and the Stadsarchief Antwerpen. Currently EVA contains 18.028 descriptions of digitised photographs. While the site interface is multilingual, the search [...]
The Canadian Archival Information Network (CAIN) sports a new look and new name, Archives Canada.
Archives Network Wales is similar to the Canadian Archival Information Network (CAIN or now Archives Canada), in that both provide uniform descriptions to collections of archival records.
Henry Wilhelm’s famous book The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures (1993; 758 pages) is available as a single Adobe Acrobat PDF download (79.6MB) or by individual chapter on his Web site Wilhelm Imaging Research.
Several reports are available through Google News, such as this one from the UK’s Telegraph about another great Canadian scientific discovery: how to generate electricity from tap water. The article hails the discovery as “the first innovatory method for 200 years.”
Following a link from a posting on DIGLIB (October 16, 2003) about a course at the D-Lib Competence Center on collaborative digital libraries environments in Pisa, Italy, on November 20 and 21, 2003, these sites describe some of the latest investigrations and practices for collaborative Web workspaces: BSCW (Basic Support for Cooperative Work) “enables collaboration [...]
I’m very pleased to learn that Etraffic Solutions, a Victoria, BC, company, launched an Elearning Portal. on September 24, 2003. I wouldn’t exactly call it innovative (that’s the word they use), since it’s basically a categorized list of links. Submitting links requires e-mailing the company, hardly the way to go these days. What does make [...]
Version 1.7.2 of the amazingly versatile Tiki Wiki content management system created by an international team of open source developers, including at least one Canadian, was released on September 29, 2003. You can download it from SourceForge.net. I use Tiki Wiki for my Tiki Wiki Hut site, and have been trying out, just for fun, [...]
CBC News reported, on the basis of a story from Nature, that scientists computed the shape of cosmos as a soccer ball kind of pattern with hexagonal patterns, a dodecahedral. Does this not sound like The Well World series from sci-fi author Jack Chalker? Take a look at the soccer ball world graphic on his [...]
From the ARCHIVES mailing list, 2003-10-10: For the past few months, Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut has been working on a project using the new JPEG2000 image standard. One of the many interesting features of this new standard is the ability to embed XML boxes within the image file. We have [...]
Syllabus Article on TrackBack o.k., I suppose it’s nice to see blogs as well as complimentary technologies like trackback getting more prominence in the academic press, but does anyone know where Phillip D. Long’s blog is? Oh, here it is … but maybe there’s another one lurking around somewhere else. That’s probably not fair (but I’m [...]
Microsoft will support Java a little longer I’d be just as happy if Microsoft did not support Java because I’ve had nothing but problems with Java applications. Via The Register, 2003-10-07
I’m back from the Access 2003 Conference, and like several speakers, I thought this was a top-notch event and the best conference I’ve ever attended. The weather in Vancouver was foggy throughout the day straight through to the end and the ferry ride home. On Saturday I talked for five minutes about the HackFest Project [...]
Tim Bray, the keynote speaker at this year’s Access 2003 Conference in Vancouver, BC, gave an overview of the Info-Centric Web and how librarians can help the Web move ahead. The Internet Cafe’s a little underresourced with only six networked PCs provided by vendor Userful.com for a little over 200 attendees. Of course not all [...]
The project I helped out with, along with seven or eight other people, was a Movable Type Weblog called poopScoop — I’m not making this up — hosted at the University of Winnipeg. The Weblog’s intended as a virtual reference desk binder that staff can post to and consult as they come on and go [...]
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