Paul Guinan’s Mechanical Marvels of the Nineteenth Century is an illustrated account of science fiction and real-life robots first produced in the Victorian era. There are many other fascinating links to explore on science fiction stuff and comics through the fabulously named frontend, Big Red Hair: The Life and Times of Anina Bennett and Paul [...]
My notes from viewing Gary Price and Chris Sherman’s Library of Congress Luminary Lecture on “Web Research: What’s New in 2004.” Audio is good, video feed broke up just before it started, but cleared. Dual RealPlayer video windows, one on speakers, the other on a Web connection for demonstrations. The Web connection window eventually disappeared. [...]
I’ve walked by the movie theatre poster on my way to work on Belleville Street and wondered about this film titled “The Triplets of Belleville.” CBC AM broadcast a story about it this animated multinational feature film this evening and says it will likely vie with “Finding Nemo” for the Oscar in that category. January [...]
“The Canadian Boreal Initiative is working with a wide range of conservation organizations, First Nations, industry and other interested parties to link science, policy and conservation activities in Canada’s boreal forest.”
“MusicPlasma Helps You Visualize Your Musical Outlook”: MusicPlasma is a visual search engine for music fans. Source: Robin Good: What Communication Experts Need to Know
The wunderkinder at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsible for the Spirit Mars Rover were able to confirm that the communications problems they were having over the past couple of days with the little robotic rover were caused by its 256MB of flash memory. If it’s only good on Mars for a short time, how reliable [...]
Got an e-mail from Max at BlogLinker.com saying an adult personals site had linked to the Ten Thousand Year Blog. Just deleted it. I take it this will be the next great war among blogsters, how to keep out unwelcome links from sites like Blogroll.com and BlogLinker.com.
This Business Wire story from January 12, 2004 reports that King County Upgrades to Hart InterCivic Records Management System, Lays Groundwork for Electronic Document Recording. The product itself is called Hart Anthem, “a comprehensive electronic records management system.” More info at the Hart InterCivic Web site down in Texas. Source: ARCHIVES mailing list, 2004-01-18
The International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI Canada) and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce an important international conference on copyright to be held in Ottawa on May 20 & 21, 2004. The general theme of this Conference, “Rethinking Copyright”, is testimony to the fact that incremental changes to the Copyright Act may [...]
Call for Proposals for ETD 2004, the Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Distributing knowledge worldwide through better scholarly communication, June 3-5, 2004, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA ETD 2004 provides a forum to share the latest developments in authoring, archiving, sharing, preserving, indexing, and accessing electronic theses and dissertations and the [...]
According to this TechNewsWorld story from January 17, 2004, James Van Dyke researched ” the commonly held belief that the Internet was causing an increase in identity theft and credit card fraud.” He concluded this was not happening. Source: ARCHIVES mailing list, 2004-01-18
According to this InformationWeek story dated January 12, 2004, Stellent Lands Optika As Content-Management Deals Continue.
Thanks Jenny Levine aka The Shifted Librarian for pointing out RSS Winterfest – Weblog: RSS Resources Blog. I was testing out the new My Yahoo RSS aggregation service and used your feed as one of the tests. Lots of interesting looking new tools on this RSS blog!
This one’s going to get a lot of folks upset, and I feel my blood aboiling. Time for an editorial rant. According to this eWeek story today (January 23, 2004), “Bill Gates’ Solution to the Spam Problem: Make Spammers Pay”. On to the rant. Bill, Bill, Bill, have you forgotten that the roots and the [...]
According to this eWeek article by Matt Hicks, “Yahoo Launches RSS Aggregator Beta” today, January 23, 2004. The beta service is available for My Yahoo portal users.
I recently installed OpenOffice 1.1.0, the multiplatform, open source Microsoft Office killer app. Backed by Sun Microsystems, which commercializes some of OpenOffice into StarOffice, and with Java support, the new release of OpenOffice offers a very attractive set of features. While the XML file format existed in the previous release, the addition of PDF export [...]
Excellent article in SearchDay #708 (January 21, 2004) by Danny Sullivan on Eurekster, the new personalized search service that relies on a social network model to feed you search results. Eurekster even comes with an Internet Explorer toolbar.
Geotags, a location-based search engine, displays results on a map and in a results list by indexing sites that contain geographical information (geotags) in their HTML pages.
Elisabeth Thorsell, editor/redakt?r of the Swedish American Genealogist, sent me this invaluable feedback by e-mail regarding my Searcher article “Counting Heads Around the World, Part 1“: We did not have censuses in the old days like you did in other countries. When our Central Bureau of Statistics started in 1749, the clergy were supposed to [...]
Brian Masschaele, Chair, Association of Canadian Archivists, Public Awareness Committee, posted an item to ARCAN-L on January 19, 2004 about two items in The Globe and Mail regarding archives. Quoting liberally from his brief message: The first on page R1 [of the January 17, 2004 issue] is an article with the headline “The full Lucy” [...]
CFP: Digital Preservation and Electronic Scholarly EditionsModern Language Association Annual Convention Philadelphia, 27-30 December 2004 The promise of electronic scholarly editing brings with it the responsibility of long-term digital preservation. While librarians and archivists have struggled with this problem for a number of years, bibliographers and editors have been slower to take up the challenge. [...]
Urban Dictionary “is a slang dictionary with your definitions.” Note well the fine print at the bottom of the start page: “Urban Dictionary is not appropriate for all audiences. ” With no editorial control, Urban Dictionary, while definitely amusing and complete with WAV audio files, is not very useful as an authoritative reference work.
Sources for Building History: A Guide to Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles ” went online 2 February 1999″ and offers a superb range of research advice and links to resources, online images or descriptive records of architectural images.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) once again sponsors Canada Reads from February 16 to 20, 2004.
Nutch, the open source Web search engine project. Nutch runs under Java on an Apache Tomcat servlet.
Nice online article, “Creating an Internal Content Management System” by Greg Sennema in the January 2004 issue of Computers in Libraries on a home-built CMS Perl-based CMS called Hobbes that he and his library’s systems programmer wrote beginning in 2001.
Sites referenced in the January 14, 2004 issue of the JEDLet.com Journal: eLearning Guild ELearnExpo 2004, January 22-23, 2004, Paris, France CourseShare.com publications on e-learning trends Virtual Training Expo
Papers from the ICA Committee on Descriptive Standards’ International Seminar on the Use of Standards in the Development of Online Access Systems for Archives (Canberra, 31 October 2003) are available online at: http://www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/rkpubs/papers.html Source: ARCAN-L mailing list, 2004-01-14
Cryptonomicon.net, a PHP-Nuke-powered site devoted to computer security and privacy in the digital age.
The University of Nevada, Reno, Mary B. Ansari Map Library, offers a small digital collection powered by CONTENTdm titled Nevada History in Maps. The other interesting online image collection here, also with an international flavor, is the Basque Poster Collection.
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