For another interesting European Union research project on tools for creating 3D virtual exhibitions, take a look at the ARCO Project, Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects.
VITRA is a project funded on the 5th framework from the European Community (IST-2000-2001), developing practical methods for the acquisition, storage and visualisation of high quality digital images of architectural details in historic buildings. http://www.vitra.org/
SCULPTEUR (Semantic and content-based multimedia exploitation for European benefit) is a three-year European project that started in May 2002. Its global investment amounts to 3 MEuros and is co-funded by the Commission of the European Community within the Fifth Framework of the Information Society Technologies programme. SCULPTUER involves ten partners from 3 European Countries, in [...]
I guess the FeedPlex company, “The Archive of Syndication,” is trying to do for RSS what Google did for Usenet News, turning it into Google Groups. According to its About page, “Feedplex is a search engine made to archive news feeds, in a purpose to create a world class scalable data index of over 12,000 [...]
The United Kingdom’s Joint Information Systems Committee created an Electronic Document and Records Management System Implementation Toolkit to assist higher education institutions with managing the introduction of an EDRMS. A draft version of the toolkit can be downloaded and full version with hyperlinks should be out by October. Cimtech Ltd. was commissioned by JISC to [...]
And fresh from inspecting some pages and Waypath Weblog entries, I came across another interesting way of aggregating Weblog content, the Findory Blogery, Your personalized weblog reader.
I’ve started noticing these little highlighted waypath links on blogs and now I know there’s more new tricks to learn.
If you’ve ever travelled the Kettle Valley Railway line, you may not know that one of the most spectacular trestles at Myra Canyon was destroyed by fire in September 2003. A Web site, the Myra Canyon Trestle Restoration Fund, lets you “donate to the Myra Canyon and Kettle Valley Railway Restoration fund. Donation and credit [...]
The Long Now Foundation, one of the inspirations for The Ten Thousand Year Blog, reproduced an essay by Dan Bricklin titled “Software That Lasts 200 Years.” Anyone still running WordStar?
ArtMorgue.com offers reference photos for artists. Access is free or you can pay for premium membership and get some extra goodies. No search engines, only browsing a la Yahoo!
For those of you wondering about the “true” cause of Google’s service being unreachable this mornig, C|Net News reports that The problems [caused by the MyDoom virus variant] were occurring just as Google set the price range–$108 to $135 per share–for its initial public offering. Google filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [...]
Long-term Retention and Reuse of E-learning Objects and Materials UK Higher and Further Education institutions have invested substantial effort and resources in creating and acquiring e-learning content. To secure the long-term future of this investment, effort must now be put into ensuring that e-learning content can be retained in a usable state as long as [...]
Among the winners in June 2004 for the British Columbia Educational Technology Users Group Sixth Annual B.C. Innovation Awards in Educational Technology were Teresa Dobson, Assistant Professor and Jeff Miller, Instructional Designer, both from at the University of British Columbia, who won in the innovation category for a course that employed blogs, wikis and web [...]
The REALIA Project publishes faculty-reviewed media for the academic community. Both faculty and students are encouraged to contribute cultural materials appropriate for instruction at the college and secondary levels. … The REALIA Prototype Archive currently includes more than 600 images for two languages for testing and review purposes. At this stage of the project we [...]
The July/August 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine contains some articles on digital preservation and electronic records management. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK mailing list, 02004-07-23
mod_oai is the simple yet profound title of of a project announced in April 2004 by the Computer Science Department of Old Dominion University and the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory to bring the power of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) to Apache-powered Web servers, which would allow [...]
The Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation hosted a workshop [April 12-13, 2002] to identify specific research challenges associated with long-term preservation of digital content. As detailed in the published report, the workshop identified a number of priority areas for research into new models, methodologies, and tools for digital preservation. You can download [...]
The report from the 8th DPC [Digital Preservation Coalition] Forum, Digital Preservation :the global context, held on 23 June, is now available from the DPC website at: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/events/for040623.html The next Forum will be held in collaboration with CURL and is scheduled for Tuesday 19th October at the British Library. Further details will be available in [...]
The Association of Research Libraries issued a groundbreaking and watershed policy statement in June 2004 titled “Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method” in which they endorse “digitization as an accepted preservation reformatting option for a range of materials.”
The United States Chief Information Officers Council’s Interagency Committee on Government Information is seeking comments on the draft report Barriers to the Effective Management of Government Information on the Internet and Other Electronic Records (Adobe Acrobat PDF) prepared by its Electronic Records Working Group. Comments are requested by August 1 to ERPWG@nara.gov For a news [...]
The Museum Computer Network (MCN) is pleased to announce the availability of the preliminary program and registration information for our 32nd Annual Conference – Great Technology for Confluence, Community & Collections. We invite you to visit the MCN website (www.mcn.edu) to find out what a great conference we have scheduled for November 10-13, 2004 in [...]
Web-Wise 2004 was sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and co-hosted by University of Illinois at Chicgao. This year’s theme was “Sharing Digital Resources,” focusing on the different meanings and implications of ?sharing? in the digital environment?from technical issues of interoperability to the formation of new partnerships to reach larger audiences. Held [...]
The Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS) official Web site: The Library of Congress’ Network Development and MARC Standards Office has developed the Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS), an XML schema for an authority element set that may be used to provide metadata about agents (people, organizations), events, and terms (topics, geographics, genres, etc.). MADS was [...]
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering’s Division of Information & Intelligent Systems is funding a program of research in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation. According to the summary page, the program’s scope encompasses: The goal of this program is to stimulate research that builds capabilities for long-term management and [...]
Le num?rique : Impact sur le cycle de vie du document. Pour une analyse interdisciplinaire Le programme du colloque EBSI-ENSSIB est maintenant disponible sur le site de l’?cole de biblioth?conomie et des sciences de l’information de l’Universit? de Montr?al: http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/ebsi-enssib-colloque.html Avec des intervenants en provenance d’une douzaine de pays, le programme explore la dynamique nouvelle [...]
This sixth [DigiCULT] Thematic Issue concentrates on how resource discovery technologies can ensure that the high value, authoritative information of heritage institutions is effectively found, retrieved, and presented to Internet users. With a key focus on the user, the Issue looks into user-driven approaches in interactive resource discovery. Expert opinion suggests that offering easy to [...]
The Danish Webarchive project (http://www.netarchive.dk) has released the following project reports 1.”Concerning ETags and Datestamps”: In order to avoid wasteful downloading and archiving of many copies of the same content, it has been investigated if it is possible to find a scheme for reliably predicting whether the content has changed, without having to download it. [...]
The National Endowment for the Humanities: Division of Preservation and Access has issued a request for proposals for Phase One of the National Digital Newspaper Program it’s running in partnership with the Library of Congress. URL: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/ndnp.html According to part of the program overview: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is soliciting proposals from [...]
Digital Resources for the Humanities Conference 2004 Sunday 5th to Wednesday 8th September 2004, University of Newcastle http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/ This is DRH’s ninth annual conference. Its goal is to bring together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources in the humanities. Speakers are from the UK and mainland Europe, North America, and Australia. Source: [...]
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