On the Trail to Atlantis Here we go again with silly season stories. Surely a landmass that sank 10,000 or so years ago would have no features recognizable today. And didn’t Plato specifically say Atlantis was beyond the Pillars of Heracles (today’s Straits of Gibraltar), that is, in the Atlantic Ocean? [via Slashdot, 2004-04-30]
Navigata.ca, a Saskatchewan Telephone company and Canadian Internet service provider, took out a big ad in my daily newspaper for its WebCall VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service. Looks interesting and for those doing a lot of long distance and with an existing high-speed Internet connection and a cellphone makes a lot of sense to [...]
DigiCULT, the digital culture intiative of the European Union, has a new Technology Watch Report, no. 2, available for download as either high- or low-resolution Adobe Acrobat PDF files: Low Resolution (1.6 MB) http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr_2_2004_final_low.pdf High Resolution (13.6 MB) http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/twr_2_2004_final.pdf This issue includes a section on “Collaborative Mechanisms and Technologies.”
Updated April 21, 2004: Thanks to the technical crew at the BC Community Networks Association, the British Columbia History Portal sports a spanking, sweet new URL: http://bchistoryportal.tc.ca or http://www.bchistoryportal.tc.ca The RSS feed is http://bchistoryportal.tc.ca//SPT–RSS.php On Saturday, March 27, 2004, I discovered that the BC History Portal was no longer accessible at http://bc.cap-pac.org/SPT/ The BC Community [...]
This Associated Press story posted on Yahoo! News is pretty scarey! The researcher, Paul Watson, who uncovered a vulnerability in the Transmission Control Protocol, one of two key protocols or standards that make the Internet work, will be presenting his findings at a security conference in Vancouver, BC, on April 21. He claimed that “hackers [...]
Comments are requested on the following study commissioned by CLIR into the feasibility of an image retrieval benchmarking service, and its possible role in speeding the development and deployment of image retrieval technology for the digital library. Please forward your comments to me or to CLIR c/o . I’d appreciate it if you would share [...]
As most people know, NISO Z39.87 Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images held the status of Draft Standard for Trial Use through December 31, 2003.? The purpose of the Trial Use period was to allow people to use the draft standard and the accompanying Metadata for Images in XML (MIX) Schema, http://www.loc.gov.standards/mix/, to measure its [...]
Heard on National Public Radio this evening that the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy released its preliminary report today. Quoting the first two paragraphs of the news release accompanying the report: Calling on Congress and President Bush to establish a new national ocean policy that balances use with sustainability, is based on sound science and [...]
The Library and Archives Canada released a new database within its ArchiviaNet online research tool, Soldiers of the South African War, (1899 – 1902). The database summary reads: The South African War, 1899-1902, is a key event in the military history of Canada. It marked the first occasion for which Canada dispatched troops to an [...]
The merger of the National Archives of Canada and the National Library of Canada announced in early October 2002 reached a new milestone with the release of a new, integrated Web site and a new URL that replaces the two previous URLs: http://www.collectionscanada.ca Congratulations to all involved on this important accomplishment!
Spotted an ad in my AceFTP freeware client for SmartGenie, “The most complete toolbar available on the net!” The fine print says its a product jointly developed by two Canadian companies, IT Interactive Services Inc., who sponsor GenieKnows.com, and Visicom Media, the makers of AceHTML, AceFTP, and designers of search engine toolbars. Some of the [...]
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame is scheduled to open in Seattle, Washington, at the base of the Seattle Space Needle in June 2004. Check out the list and credentials of the Advisors.
Surviving Business Records of the Daguerreian Era In Public and Private Collections A Query for the Southworth & Hawes Project of George Eastman House and the International Center for Photography The daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes are the subject of a major exhibition to open in New York City in December 2004. The exhibition will [...]
State, NARA complete first transfer of electronic records: From the article, “The State Department and the National Archives and Records Administration today completed the first electronic transfer of diplomatic records. When secretary of State Colin Powell handed a stack of CD-ROMs to national archivist John Carlin at ceremony at State headquarters, it marked the transformation [...]
Amazon unveils search tool speaks for itself, eh. If not, this is a story about Amazon’s attempt to go one better than Google or Yahoo, with its own Web search engine. [via Moreover - ZDNet, 2004-04-14]
The March 2004 Perspectives Online from the American Historical Association contains AHA President Jonathan Spence’s interview with Yale University’s Chief Research Archivist Judith Schiff: “A Life with the Archives”. Source: The Resource Shelf, 2004-04-12
What do dancing boxes have to do with tear gas, crowd control and calm cars? It’s up to entrants in an unusual film festival to provide the answer, using snippets of old commercials and propaganda films now available in an online archive. By Katie Dean. [via Wired News, 2004.04.13] This is all about the [...]
If strangers are suddenly kinder or good things happen to you for no apparent reason on April 13, it could be that you’ve been subjected to a random act of kindness. It’s official, Greater Victoria is celebrating Acts of Random Kindness that day.
From the H-TRAVEL mailing list (April 2, 2004) comes this announcement of an unusual international symposium in Australia in June: Roadside Memorials Location: Australia Date Submitted: 2004-03-30 I am seeking essays on various aspects of roadside memorials to include in an edited volume. Most of the papers will come from participants in the Roadside Memorials [...]
Dr. Mary S. Woodley, Collection Development Coordinator, California State University, Northridge, announced to the DIGLIB list (April 2, 2004) a preconference program she’s chairing for the American Library Association’s annual conference in Orlando, Florida, June 25, 2004: Putting the Digital Puzzle Together: Creating a Digital Project Description: Libraries are increasingly developing digital projects on their [...]
H.M. Gladney, digital preservation iconoclast and consultant, announced to DIGLIB (April 1, 2004) that his self-published periodical Digital Document Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1 (First Quarter 2004) is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_3_1.htm
Adding The Thousand Words Back To The Picture Apparently, even if a picture is worth a thousand words (or, as an old professor of mine used to say, “a digital picture is worth 1,024 words”), sometimes people need to put the words back with the picture to make it complete. Researchers at HP realized that [...]
Happy to see my “Toolbar Tangle: Searcher Toolbars to the Max” article as the lead cover story on the April 2004 issue of Searcher magazine. The article, however, is not online, so unless you’re a subscriber, you’ll have to await its appearance in the commercial, full-text databases. Naturally, there’s no coverage in the article, since [...]
Quoting in its entirety from the English portion of this e-mail on the ARCAN-L mailing list, 2004-04-01: Dear colleagues: The Canadian Committee on Archival Description (CCAD) of the Canadian Council of Archives is pleased to present to the Canadian archival community a draft second edition of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD2). This document derives [...]
Professor Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford University Law School has a new work out available for download or purchase from his site called Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (Penguin Press, 2004; ISBN 1594200068). Practicing what he preaches in Free Culture, “FREE CULTURE is [...]
In case you run across this Web site, The Camera Obscura Collection of Hans Albrecht Petersohn (1602-1668), it is a sophisticated and very clever April Fool’s prank from 2004. Surprisingly, whether they were in on it or not, the site was described in a news release on the UK’s most excellent 24 Hour Museum site. [...]
Agencies to organize digital records From the article, “Archiving officials have told federal agencies to start getting their electronic records in order. By 2007, the agency responsible for preserving federal records anticipates having an operational archive for digital materials, said Adrienne Reagins, a communications specialist with the National Archives and Records Administration’s Electronic Records Archives [...]
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