ECDL 2005 is the 9th conference in the series of European Digital Library conferences. ECDL has become the major European conference on digital libraries, and associated technical, practical, and social issues, bringing together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field. ECDL 2005 is jointly organized by the Vienna University of Technology (VUT), the [...]
From the About page for Webology, “an international electronic journal” (ISSN: 1735-188X): Webology is a scholarly journal in English devoted to the various fields of Library and Information Science and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and [...]
“From the Cradle to the Grave: The Digital Life Cycle OCLC PICA Digital & Preservation Resources provide libraries with the flexibility to preserve and manage digital collections via microfilming, digitising, collection management tools and archiving services. You are invited to attend the free OCLC PICA Digital Collection and Preservation Workshop being held throughout November in [...]
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada artist Harry Heine, one of the world’s greatest modern maritime artists, died on Saturday morning, September 25, 2004, at Royal Jubilee Hospital. “The Heine family is planning a retrospective of his work to run in conjunction with the “Tall Ships Victoria, 2005″ event, comming to Victoria in June 23rd-25th of 2005.” [...]
AHC-UK Annual Conference and The Royal Historical Society, Gerald Aylmer Seminar, present Recasting the Past: Digital Histories “Introduction This year the AHC-UK is delighted to host its annual one day conference in association with The Royal Historical Society. The conference theme is ‘Recasting the Past: Digital Histories’ and 20 papers will be presented by historians, [...]
“The Digital Preservation Coalition, British Library and CURL are pleased to announce a joint one-day forum that will focus on digital preservation activities within institutional repositories[1] . Digital Preservation is a key activity of an institutional repository, which should seek to provide a long-term commitment to the preservation of stored digital objects. Expert speakers will [...]
The University of California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education, “Higher Education in the Digital Age” Program, is conducting a Digital Resource Study, described as “A research project studying the use of digital resources in undergraduate education in the humanities and social sciences.”
An intriguing Web resource, The Davies Project at Princeton University, was established to conduct “Research into the History of University Libraries in the United States and the History of their Collections.” One of the first fruits of this project is ALB1876: Database of American Libraries before 1876. What makes this project unusual, and a factor [...]
Paul Chiao and Christian Schmidt authored an article, “Open Access gains attention in scholarly communication” in the September 6th edition of Molecular Cancer. From the article, the big seven: All articles become freely and universally accessible online; so an author’s work can be read by anyone at no cost. The authors hold copyright for their [...]
Ian E. Wilson Appointed Librarian and Archivist of Canada Source: ARCAN-L mailing list, 02004-09-24
The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a followup report, Records Management: Planning for Electronic Records Archives Has Improved, which describes the National Archives and Records Administration’s progress in its implementation of a system for managing electronic records and creating an electronic archives. Links to the earlier GAO reports published in 2002 and 2003 [...]
A little late for silly season, but just in time for Halloween fantasies, a story from the Douglas County News-Press in Colorado is stirring up thoughts of a ghost haunting the Castlewood Canyon State Park. Source: “Employees ponder what’s haunting Castlewood Canyon State Park” by Kiersten J. Mayer, Douglas County News-Press, 02004-09-23
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported in this story by Associated Press writer Matt Volz that Richard A. Pierce, “one of the foremost authorities on Russian Alaska … died last Tuesday in his Kingston, Ontario, home.” Source: Russian Alaska historian dies at 86, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, 02004-09-23
Futures Past: Twenty Years of Arts Computing CHArt Twentieth Annual Conference 11-12 November 2004 Birkbeck College, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, 25-27 Torrington Square, London. PROGRAMME Since its foundation in 1985 CHArt has closely followed the extraordinary developments in arts computing that have taken place over nearly two decades. This year, for the [...]
“In September of 2004 the State Library of Massachusetts completed the Alexander Parris Digital Project. The project was an effort to digitize Parris material held in the State Library and the collections of six Boston repositories. The Boston Athenaeum; The Boston Public Library; Boston National Historical Park, Charlestown Navy Yard; Massachusetts General Hospital; Massachusetts Historical [...]
This Wired News report by Katie Dean, Saving the Artistic Orphans, describes the Kahle v. Ashcroft lawsuit to declare some U.S. copyright law changes unconstitutional because they have essentially eliminated the public domain aspect of copyright.
The United States Army Center of Military History contains a multimedia digital collection primarily consisting of digitized or transcribed texts and images, including artwork and photographs.
The United States Army Military History Institute, part of the Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is celebrating its grand opening on September 24, 2004. The institute houses the Army Heritage Collection Online (use the Research Catalog link), a multimedia digital library and archives collection.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Digital Library System contains digitized photographs, contemporary and historic, from various regions in the continental United States and Alaska.
Canadian geologists make key dinosaur discovery: “…The dinosaur tracks and a fossilized turtle shell, estimated to be about 125 million years old, were discovered north of Terrace, British Columbia, by provincial geologists doing a routine survey for energy exploration. …” A photograph of the fossilized turtle shell, credited to the Royal BC Museum and Reuters, [...]
“The Peace Agreements Digital Collection, part of the Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management, strives to contain the full text of agreements signed by the major contending parties ending inter- and intra-state conflicts worldwide since 1989. It is a collection constantly under development by the Jeannette Rankin Library Program as a means [...]
This article by Paul Kelly in Wolverhampton, England’s Express & Star, “Lottery cash opens window on the past”, describes a digitization project led by archivist Jenny Childs to digitize, with the help of a 400,000 pounds Lotto grant 10,000 photographs and records about the industrial history of the so-called Black Country. The records are preserved [...]
I guess now that the Scobleizer’s ruled that “RSS is broken”, no one should take advantage of the new support for Atom and RSS feeds in the 0.8 release of the Thunderbird e-mail program from the Mozilla Organization, because, you know, like you’ll be adding to the problem. Funny that a Microsoft employee would also [...]
The Electronic Literature Organization exists “to facilitate and promote the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media.” According to its About page, “The Electronic Literature Organization was initiated in the spring of 1999 during a conversation between electronic author Scott Rettberg, novelist Robert Coover, and Internet business leader Jeff Ballowe.” The ELO sponsors [...]
Stellent CMS Certified for DoD Compliance. What does this mean? Quoting the last paragraph: “The U.S. DoD 5015.2 – STD Chapter 4 certification verifies Stellent Records Management’s ability to control the creation, declaration, classification, retention and destruction of electronic and non-electronic records, including scanned documents. This Stellent software has also been re-certified against the main [...]
The Council of State Historical Records Coordinators maintains a directory of Archives Week 2004: Activities Planned by Organizations and Repositories that includes international celebrations. Methinks I’ll have to tell them they forgot to add British Columbia Archives Week sponsored by the Archives Association of BC which has been celebrated in November since 2000. Many of [...]
Lots of virtual exhibits with many, many images of posters and broadsides at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, California.
Pictures in Print: “A collaborative project sponsored by the British Library Co-operation and Partnership Programme and NEMLAC to create a union catalogue, with viewable images, of printed maps and topographical prints of County Durham created before 1860 held by Durham University Library, Durham County Library, Durham Cathedral Library, Sunderland Museum, Sunderland City Library and the [...]
Take a look at the United Kingdom National Council on Archives’ three-month Archive Awareness Campaign for some awesome public relations work. Many of the events are virtual exhibitions all over the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland between October and December 2004 (some exhibits started earlier and are ending within this timeframe).
Sue Bigelow, the conservator for the City of Vancouver Archives in British Columbia wrote up an excellent report on the Society for Imaging Science and Technology Archiving Conference in San Antonio, Texas, USA, between April 20 and 23, 2004. Her report appears in the online edition of the Archives Association of BC Newsletter, v. 14, [...]
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