Movable Type 3.1 is ready for download when you are. Read the What’s New features list to see how it’s improved from 2.6 and the 3.0 Developer’s Edition. Pricing’s in three flavors, with the Free version described as “You can download a fully functional, but unsupported version of Movable Type for free. You’re limited to [...]
Jonathan Janson (b. 1950, South River, New Jersey), a professional American artist, has devoted a lot of his career towards the study of the 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, one of whose works, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, was the subject of a modern novel and a film. Janson’s Web sites on Vermeer [...]
Roman de la Rose: Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts: A project of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of the Johns Hopkins University and the Pierpont Morgan Library. Requires a password (e-mail request) to access and site is under construction. Contains scans of “six manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose from the collections of the [...]
Theleme or Techniques pour l’Historien en Ligne : Etudes, Manuels, Exercices from the ?cole nationale des chartes, La Sorbonne, contains an interactive digital facsimile set of sample pages from books and documents that help archivists, historians and students interpret handwriting and printing from various time periods (450 A.D. to 1488 A.D.).
Some wonderful zoomable historic maps of Paris (Plans de Paris) at Paris.org dating between 1522 and 1960, along with a map to the museums and monuments of Paris.
Registration for Access 2004: Beyond Buzzwords is now open! This year the conference is being held in beautiful Halifax, NS from October 13-16, 2004. Registration is limited to 200 people and spots are filling up fast. For more information on the conference and for a look at the complete program visit the conference website: http://library.acadiau.ca/access2004/ [...]
PrestoSpace: Preservation Towards Storage and Access: Standardised Practices for Audiovisual Contents in Europe. Summary: “The project’s objective is to provide technical solutions and integrated systems for digital preservation of all types of audiovisual collections. The project intends to provide tangible results in the domain of preservation, restoration, storage and archive management, content description, delivery and [...]
Peter A. Kurilecz borrowed this announcement from another mailing list and reposted it to the ARCHIVES mailing list on August 27, 2004: Recordkeeping is a new publication from The National Archives for Archivists, Records Managers, and all involved in caring for archives and records. The magazine is published quarterly and will contain news from the [...]
arbeiter-zeitung.at: The open online-archive of the Austrian newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung. Offering the ?Arbeiter-Zeitung? from 1945 to 1989, it contains almost half a century of daily newspaper coverage of one of Austria?s leading newspapers of that time. And it is an open archive to all users of the Internet: without any limitations or fees. arbeiter-zeitung.at shows the [...]
The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the final release of the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress, available on the American Memory Web site at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/ The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his [...]
MOM is a commonly used abbreviation in medieval charters for the Latin word monasterium and recently became a symbol for a project, which in its special way is unique within the historical sciences. Under the patronage of the diocesan archive of St.P?lten, the team of MOM, consisting of 14 cooperators, has started a very ambitious [...]
ERPANET Workshop on the Preservation of Digital Art, Glasgow, Scotland, October 8, 2004
ERPANet RSS Feed (XML Source) Use this URL to subscribe to or read the feed in your RSS reader or news aggregator/aggregation service. Source: ERPANET notice, 02004-08-10 ERPANET’s Web site also sports a new, blog-like look.
Archivalia Digitale Unterlagen RSS Feed (XML Source) A Weblog by Klaus Graf, the Digitale Unterlagen category of Archivalia covers digital preservation issues. Use this URL to subscribe to or read the feed in your RSS reader or news aggregator/aggregation service.
Universal Feed Parser by Mark Pilgrim, an open application that lets you “Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Python.” Here’s what the introduction to the excellent documentation says: Universal Feed Parser is a Python module for downloading and parsing syndicated feeds. It can handle RSS 0.90, Netscape RSS 0.91, Userland RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS [...]
Fototeca nazionale, the National Italian Photographic Archive, is a very nice site with an English search screen. The database records are all in Italian. The site includes an e-commerce system. Some of the photographs are categorized, which lets you narrow your search by taking you to a search screen specific to that subject category or [...]
U.S. cooks up most spam [via Moreover - ZDNet, Aug 25 2004 0:35AM GMT] Someone I correspond with in the U.S. and no longer can due to her service provider blocking my service provider’s e-mail has this hilarious and ironic message from her service provider that’s returned with my bounced e-mail: Reason: Server rejected MAIL [...]
Part of the collaborative Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) series of digital collections, World Map Collections, “a cooperative project of several public and private universities of Florida and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to make digitized modern and antique maps available on the Web. The Florida and Caribbean collections are particularly [...]
Historic Cities: Maps and Documents, “a joint project of the Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library” … “contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar [...]
Just in case you’re wondering, here’s an authoritative explanation from Tom Holmberg on The Napoleon Series: “Did Napoleon’s troops shoot the nose off the Sphinx?” Another urban legend/historical folk tale demolished.
A publication from the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) describes aspects of its e-Depot service, originally known as the Depot voor Nederlandse Electronische Pulicaties (DNEP; Deposit for Dutch Electronic Publications) that uses a product co-developed with IBM called DIAS (Digital Information Archiving System), which is based on the ISO OAIS reference model: “Digital [...]
Here’s a beautiful virtual exhibit from the National Library of France on the 17th century Paris engraver Abraham Bosse. If you’re not fluent in French, I think the best way to navigate the site is through the rep?res link. Source: historicum.net
Kansas City Area Archivists (KCAA) will present their 2004 symposium, ?Make New Friends, But Keep the Old: Preservation Strategies for Electronic and Paper Records? on Saturday, October 2, at the Kansas History Center in Topeka, Kansas. Featured keynote speaker, David Gracy of the University of Texas-Austin, will begin the day?s events. Other presenters will include [...]
Great info and leads here at The Nanopublishing Weblog: The Business of Weblogs and Online Publishing. Like the name. Couple of SiliValy whiz kids, ok they’re over the hill at 30+, but in their youth did great things, made lots of cash, performed miracles, the usual rags to riches and more riches story. No dis [...]
Congratulations to journalist Dan Gillmor on the publication last month of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People by O’Reilly (ISBN: 0-596-00733-7), and for making the book available for reading around the world at no direct cost. The title, all about the rise and proliferation of bloggers as journalists or grassroots [...]
The American Museums Digital Imaging Survey Benchmarking Conference Direct Digital Image Capture of Cultural Heritage in American Institutions September 21 – 22, 2004, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York with an optional 3rd day spent with RIT’s Image Permanence Institute For a preliminary program with registration information, please visit: http://www.cis.rit.edu/museumSurvey/conference . Conference topics will [...]
The University of California, San Diego Libraries and the New York University Libraries, working together with the Five Colleges Libraries, have been awarded a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development and implementation of the Archivists’ Toolkit. A website for the project is located at: http://euterpe.bobst.nyu.edu/toolkit/ . The Toolkit will be a [...]
Guess I should mention this new Movable Type Weblog I started, The Fiction of Photography.
The NHPRC has awarded an Electronic Records Project grant to the Digital Collections and Archives of Tufts University, in partnership with Manuscripts & Archives of Yale University. The 18-month grant will support work to synthesize electronic records preservation research with digital library repository research in an effort to develop systems capable of preserving university electronic [...]
Just happened to come across Spain’s RedIRIS national research centre and noticed they developed an open source authentication and authorization service called PAPI that looks quite interesting. Also on the PAPI site are links to other projects in this area such as Shibboleth and OpenSAML. I always wonder in my rhetorical kind of way how [...]
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