The European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA), through its SEPIA (Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access) project, “developed a model and set of recommendations for cataloguing photographic collections. This model, called SEPIADES [SEPIA Data Element Set], consists of a wide range of suggested elements to describe digitally born as well as analogue photographic materials. [...]
View the Table of Contents and abstracts to the new issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries, v. 4, no. 3 (November 2004). This is a special issue on security and authentication issues surrounding digital library collections.
Saw an ad in this morning’s paper for Sony’s Locationfree TV: a wireless 12.1 inch LCD screen TV with a Web browser and e-mail client. You can connect a USB keyboard if you don’t want to use the touchscreen one. For those who want to watch TV and surf the Net, there’s picture-in-picture capability, along [...]
“The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) announced today that it is making grants totaling more than 1million to nine UK educational institutions and their partners to support digital preservation and asset management in UK Higher and Further Education institutions. All UK universities and colleges face issues related to long-term management and preservation of information in [...]
“The DigiCULT project is currently preparing a roadmap on the challenges and possible achievements in research and technological development (RTD) over the next 10 to 15 years that are likely to lead to advanced applications for the cultural heritage sector. The roadmap is a navigation tool that will provide essential understanding and direction in the [...]
The paleontological and evolutionary biology worlds are abuzz with news of the discovery of a 3-feet tall hominid species in Indonesia known as Flores Man after the island where the bones of several individuals were found. Read about the discovery at a special site on Flores Man at news@nature.com. What’s intriguing to me about this [...]
“The UNLV [University of Nevada, Las Vegas] Libraries is proud to announce the launching of ‘Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps,’ a digital project featuring over 80 historical maps from the UNLV Libraries Special Collections Department, documenting the cartographic history and context of southern Nevada, telescoping in scale from the Western Hemisphere to [...]
Read all about it in a new article by David Mattison, “The Case Against Creationism and Intelligent Design of the Universe”.
The United Kingdom’s Technical Advisory Service for Images has expanded it’s Advice — Using Digital Images to cover Using Digital Images in Teaching Resources. Source: HISTORY-DIGITISATION Digest – 13 Oct 2004 to 19 Oct 2004 (#2004-46), 02004-10-19
” ‘The Face of Text’ will be a three day conference November 19th – November 21st, 2004 hosted by McMaster University. This conference will be the third CaSTA (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) conference organized and sponsored by the TAPoR project (Text Analysis Portal for Research). (Information about last year’s conference is at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/casta/pages/abstracts.htm ). [...]
“NINES Workshop in Digital Scholarship This is a week-long workshop for scholars undertaking digital projects in nineteenth-century British and American literary and cultural studies. The workshop will be held at the University of Virginia, 18-22 July 2005, and will provide a practical setting where scholars can work at the development of their individual projects with [...]
“Wiki wars: Think this year’s presidential debates have been rough? Check out Wikipedia,” Red Herring, October 14, 2004 Source: DIG_REF mailing list, 02004-10-15 The conclusion of this article is that Wikipedia and wikis in general are a successful collaborative tool, whether open to the public or not, and that wikifitti (David Mattison’s word for the [...]
His band, Doug and the Slugs, was a fav of mine and courtesy of some friends I heard them live way back in the 80s in Vancouver’s famed Commodore Ballroom. Thanks for the great music Doug Bennett, we’ll miss your tunes and your very distinctive voice. “TORONTO – Doug Bennett, the lead singer of the [...]
Surprisingly, for such a large and long-lived newspaper that for the launch of the New York Times Photo Archives they’ve only placed just over a thousand images online. Basically, as Tara Calishain says, they want to sell you a framed, archival quality print. Checking out the Special Collections link I noticed a bunch of Edward [...]
Oxford University Press’ OUP Journals group worked out a preservation deal with the Netherlands’ Koninklijke Bibliotheek similar to the one the Dutch national library negotiated with Elsevier in 2002. Read all about it in the media release on the OUP Journals site. No mention of course in the OUP Journals publicity about the earlier Elsevier [...]
“Cornell University Library is pleased to announce that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund the development of an open source general-purpose publication management system based on Cornell University Library’s innovative publishing software, DPubS (Digital Publishing System). In collaboration with the Pennsylvania State University, Cornell will enhance and extend the DPubS software, which was developed [...]
“Following the funding from BT and the Intelligent Media Institute London, a project on Multimedia Digital Libraries will be launched later this year. The project is committed to open-source and Java. The aim of this project is to provide visual and text access mechanisms of multimedia collections through novel browsing, search and visualization paradigms on [...]
A new issue of RLG DigiNews (October 15, 2004) looks at issues around technical (non-descriptive) metadata, and includes a report on the work of the OCLC-RLG PREMIS working group that’s examining issues around metadata for digital preservation.
View the Table of Contents and abstracts if you’re not a subscriber to the new issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries, v. 4, no. 2 (October 2004).
The University of Leicester launched its Historical Directories Web site, a searchable database of digital facsimiles of city or business (“local or trade”) directories for England and Wales dating between 1750 and 1919. Source: BBC News World Edition, 02004-10-15
Roger Fenton’s Letters from the Crimea “This website publishes faithful transcripts of letters sent by Roger Fenton to family and friends during his “Photographic Trip to the Crimea” in 1855. The venture is a collaborative project initiated by De Montfort University, using the two surviving letter books in the collections of the Harry Ransom Humanities [...]
Photographic Exhibitions in Britain, 1839-1865: Records from Exhibition Catalogues “This is a research database containing individual records for over 20 000 photographic exhibits drawn from forty exhibition catalogues published between 1839 – 1865. It was created by Roger Taylor and originally published under the same title in book form by the National Gallery of Canada, [...]
Google launches desktop search for Windows PCs Mail, Office, and chat indexed. Nice review and comparsion with some retail products that do the same thing. [via The Register (UK), 02004-10-14] Get the tool at http://desktop.google.com ZDNet UK has a nice overview of several other free and retail desktop search tools by Robert Vamosi, “Find it [...]
Tara Calishain writes in Research Buzz (02004-10-12) about “H-BOT, Automated Historical Fact Finder” at the George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media: “If you’re stilll into natural language searching, check out H-Bot at http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/h-bot/ . H-Bot answers historical questions, and while it’s not always right, it was better than I thought it would [...]
Given actor Christopher Reeve’s untimely death and his passionate advocacy on behalf of stem cell researchers, the archived Webcast from the Science Network of Stem Cells: Science, Ethics and Politics at the Crossroads (October 2, 2004) is all the more poignant. “Note that this is raw, unedited tape as shot at the event.”
Hadn’t visited the site for a couple of weeks and now there’s a new front-end look to the ever fascinating American Memory at the Library of Congress.
Nicely organized and selected collection of e-books (HTML facsimiles) about the history of Yosemite National Park in the Yosemite Web’s section Online Historical Yosemite Books dating back to the early 1850s. Coverage includes works by the famous naturalist and conservationist John Muir, with its own search engine, the Muir-o-matic, which must be out of order [...]
Well done 1996 online thesis by Joshua Scott Johns for his University of Virginia Master of Arts degree about American railroads and their influence on the development of Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks: All Aboard: The Role of the Railroads in Protecting, Promoting, and Selling Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks.
Here’s a story from the Independent about the BBC online archives project: “The lost treasures: The BBC has failed to deliver on its promise to put its archive online”, by Tim Luckhurst, published October 11, 2004.
According to this Daily Herald (Everett, WA) story,”Washington [State] has opened what is believed to be the nation’s first digital archives for state government, holding everything from birth records to the first election results in Washington Territory in 1854. Housed in a new building on the Eastern Washington University campus, the $14.5 million Washington State [...]
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