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ERPANET is pleased to announce its seminar focusing on business models related to digital preservation. This three-day seminar, co-hosted by the Archiefschool, will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on September 20-22, 2004. The seminar will explore the organisation, funding and structuring of digital preservation in and among organisations. Currently, most organisations are still very [...]

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The United Kingdom’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) launched its online electronic records management training package. It’s designed for those who manage such records in higher education institutions. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02004-06-30

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The Supreme Court of Canada ruled today in a unanimous decision against SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) in its effort to seek royalties from Internet service providers whose customers download music. The court’s opinion was that SOCAN was seeking to extend Canadian law beyond the country’s borders and that the [...]

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Invitation to participate in the validation test The aim of the Xtensible Past pilot project is twofold. On the one hand the project explores the possibilities of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and OAI (Open Archives Initiative) for providing better access to and sharing of digital data collections by researchers, on the other hand the project [...]

Tags: Cool Tools, Digital Preservation, History Findings, Search and Retrieval Technology by David
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Got the experience and the expertise in the growing digital cultural heritage field? DigiCULT.info, a European Union initiative, introduces a cultural heritage professional curriculum vitae access service. The rationale for this service is that: Archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural and scientific heritage institutions often have difficulty identifying professionals with expertise in applying relevant ICT. [...]

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Journal of Digital Information Management Volume 2 Number 2 June 2004 Contents: Methodologies, technologies and applications in distributed and Grid systems – Giovanni Aloisio, Maria Mirto, Pradip K Srimani, P.Pichappan Detecting Anomalies in High-Performance Parallel Programs – German Florez, Zhen Liu, Susan Bridges, Rayford Vaughn, Anthony Skjellum OGSA-WebDB: An OGSA-Based System for Bringing Web Databases [...]

Tags: Collaborative Web, Digital Libraries and Collections, Digital Preservation, Electronic Records, Information Knowledgists, Search and Retrieval Technology by David
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The June 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.

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The National Archives of Australia is pleased to announce the publication of several major new products to help Australian government agencies make, keep and use digital records. These digital recordkeeping products are available to download online at www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/er/summary.html. Source: ARCHIVES mailing list, 02004-06-22

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The United Kingdom’s Digital Preservation Coalition and Pilgrim Trust announce winner of first Digital Preservation Award. The first Digital Preservation Award worth ?5,000 in recognition of leadership and achievement in the developing field of digital preservation, was presented tonight by Loyd Grossman to The National Archives for its Digital Archive at a ceremony held at [...]

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Here’s a very cool tool for those of us who collect and use different kinds of free and commercial text and code editors: PSPad Editor by Czech citizen Jan Fiala. Lots of goodies here, including an internal Web browser with Apache support, a FTP client, and a hex editor, along with support for several different [...]

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I was visiting a commercial Web site in Kentucky and intrigued by its antispam policy: In addition, we no longer accept email from servers located in Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, or Taiwan (*.br, *.cn, *.hk, *.in, *.kr, *.jp, and *.tw domains) due to unacceptably large volumes of spam. This should not be [...]

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4th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW04), to be held in conjunction with the 8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries, September 16 2004, Bath, UK.

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The June 2004 issue of RLG DigiNews (volume 8, number 3) is now available at http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=17661. The lead feature article is “Web Archive Activities in Denmark” by Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, and the second feature article is “Preserving Visual Recordings at a Library of Animal Behavior, Part 1: From Submitted Media to Archival Masters” by Marc Dantzker.

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21 June 2004 Wonders of the web captured forever? Launch of UK Web Archiving Consortium will dramatically boost lifespan of key web materials Launched today, the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC) aims to expand the lifespan of website materials from around 44 days (the same life expectancy as a housefly) to a century or more. [...]

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Congratulations to SpaceShipOne project designer Burt Rutan, sponsor Paul Allen, pilot Michael W. Melvill and all those who made this spaceship fly safely on the occasion of her historic first flight into suborbital altitude. Where are the Vulcans when you need them?

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Update for June 2004: **There are still a few spaces available for the July workshop** Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Problems http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/dpworkshop/ July 19-23, 2004 Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY Cornell University Library is offering a digital preservation training program July19-23 with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshop targets [...]

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?Basics and Beyond? Digitization Fundamentals On-line and Hands-on Course The Illinois Digitization Institute at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), through a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, is offering a new digitization training opportunity. It is a 3-week web-based course followed by a 2-day, intensive hands-on workshop [...]

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Registration Reminder- 2004 SUMMER SEMINAR SERIES / University of New Brunswick / Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada / August 13-20 http://www.lib.unb.ca/courses The registration deadline for the Summer Seminar Series is approaching and there are still spaces available. The Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick is offering for the eighth consecutive year a summer [...]

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Oxford University’s Archive of the Griffith Institute, part of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, maintains these two exquisite historical photographs databases with digitized images: Egyptian Mirage: 19th-century “studio photographs” of Egypt Levantine Mirage: 19th-century “studio photographs” of the Levant The reason the words studio photographs are in quotation marks is because the database [...]

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The complete series of Council for British Archaeology Research Reports, including microfiche, has been digitised and is being made available by the CBA as PDFs through the Archaeology Data Service as a staged process. Over 100 reports are currently available, covering a broad variety of subjects concerning British archaeology. [via New Humbul Resources, 02004-06-18]

Tags: Digital Libraries and Collections, History Findings, Science, Searcher Magazine Threads by David
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Wanting to read blogs but don’t like or understand RSS or Atom or why you should care about syndicated content? Dan Sanderson’s BlogTracker, originally known as the SubHonker Filter, lets you search a blog by name or URL for or pick from a huge list of active blogs, all scooped up from Weblogs.com, and then [...]

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The Gustave Flaubert Web site is devoted to the 19th century French writer, Gustave Flaubert, and offers material that will be of interest to both students and researchers. It offers a good summary biography of Flaubert’s life and details the writing and publication of some of his major works, such as ‘Madame Bovary’. Digital versions [...]

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The Web site, Culture.fr, from France’s Minist?re de la Culture et de la Communication is a vast gateway and information service for all aspects of French culture. This is an essential resource for anyone working on contemporary French studies. It offers a remarkable number of annotated links to genuinely quality resources in the fields of: [...]

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John Gruber’s Markdown, a text-to-(X)HTML conversion tool was originally written in Perl for use with the Movable Type blogging software. It also works under Blosxom version 2.0+ and BBEdit. Version 1.2 of WordPress, which is a PHP blogging system, the one The Ten Thousand Year Blog runs under since June 02003, also supports both Markdown [...]

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The June 21, 2004 issue of the Canadian Edition of Time magazine contains a four page (excluding the full-page lead illustration) article by Lev Grossman titled “Meet Joe Blog.” The article includes a sidebar “How to Find Your Kind of Blog” that features these blog directories and search engines: Kinja.com, Bloglines.com, Feedster.com, Technorati.com, and Blogdex.net. [...]

Tags: Blogging Experience, Search and Retrieval Technology, Searcher Magazine Threads, Syndication Formats and Reading by David
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SortByDate Helps Track Keywords in Weblogs and News Sites — ResearchBuzz, June 14, 2004

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King’s College London and OCLC-PICA are pleased to announce that in September 2004 the first Digital Futures Academy will be held in London. Led by experts of international renown, the Digital Futures Academy will focus on the creation, delivery and preservation of digital resources from cultural and memory institutions. Lasting five days, the Academy is [...]

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The Salzburg Research eCulture Symposium 2004 (September 27-28, 2004) covers all aspects – from digitizing cultural heritage objects to adding value and creating cultural experiences in and beyond cultural heritage institutions. In detail, the symposium tackles the following questions: + How to make more tangible the notion of cultural experience(s) + Future technologies to realize [...]

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Library of Congress Partners with National Science Foundation to Fund Advanced Research into Preservation of Digital Materials

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Welcome to the City of Gardens, CLA/BCLA Conference Delegates. We cranked out the sunshine just for you!

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