The Digital Library Federation released its report dated July 2004 titled Digital Library Content and Course Management Systems: Issues of Interoperation: Report of a Study Group. The co-chairs were Dale Flecker, Harvard University Library, and Neil McLean, IMS Australia. Source: ResourceShelf, Professional Reading List, 02004-11-30
DigiCULT.Info newsletter issue 9 from the DigiCULT Forum is out: “Examinging digital contextualisation for knowledge acquisition – reproducing Greek masks for performance – Austrian digital heritage – news from DigiCULT’s Regional Correspondents – examining technologies and cultural heritage – Te Ara digital encyclopedia – thoughts on born-digital art – DiVA academic archive – new guides [...]
The DigiCULT Forum offers a new service called the DigiCULT Newsfeed Viewer consisting of selected and suggested RSS and Atom newsfeeds, including one from The Ten Thousand Year Blog. I feel honoured and humbled.
A new blog by Jill Hurst-Wahl, Digitization 101, “focuses primarily on the creation, management and preservation of digital assets. Other topics, such as competitive intelligence, are covered infrequently.” Her blog was started August 30, 2004. The Atom syndicated feed URL is http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/atom.xml Welcome to the field Jill!
“The e-Agenda International Summit, an innovative and challenging new event, is to be held in San Diego, USA from 12th – 14th December 2004. The Summit is the fifth and final of the e-Agenda global events and activities for 2004 and offers an exceptional opportunity for senior executives, visionaries and decision makers to benefit from [...]
Part 3 of my article “Looking for Good Art” is in the November/December 2004 issue of Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals. At my request in late November the article was placed online and part 2 from the October 2004 issue will also be online shortly.
Malicious crackers learned how to exploit and crack TWiki Web sites using the search function. If you’re running a public TWiki site, go to Security Alert: TWiki search function allows arbitrary shell command execution to see the patch or download the latest release that plugs this hole. Source: twiki-security@lists.sourceforge.net, 02004-11-28
Northern Blue is pleased to sponsor publication of Canadian History News, a new ad-free daily journal all about Canadian History. CHN features: 1) Canaday, a daily digest of events that happened On This Day in Canadian History, plus today’s Great Canadian Birthdays. 2) News events and stories relating to Canadian history and the teaching of [...]
View the Table of Contents and abstracts to the new issue of the International Journal on Digital Libraries, v. 4, no. 4 (November [sic?] 2004). This is a special issue on special issue on Asian digital libraries. Note that v. 4, no. 3 was also dated November 2004, so I’m not sure whether the November [...]
Update for 02005 03 24: The OCKHAM initiative today released version 0.5.3 of its Harvest-to-Query (H2Q) software. This is the first widely-publicized release of H2Q. H2Q is an end-to-end solution for providing standard querying capabilities (such as Z39.50) for OAI-PMH available metadata collections. Currently, H2Q has the following major features: It is as easy to [...]
A Vision of Britain Through Time covering 1801 to 2001, according to its About page, “… was created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project (“GIS” stands for “Geographical Information System”). Much more information about this site, the project and historical applications of GIS technology is available from our other web site at: www.gbhgis.org We [...]
Suddenly I’m getting thumbnails of Web sites displayed in all my Google search results. Nothing on the Google Preferences screen about thumbnails. Did I miss an announcement somewhere? Here’s a screenshot in Mozilla Firefox 1.0. 02004-11-20 Update: The Duuh Factor kicked in this morning. I noticed a “McSP” in the Firefox status bar. Hovering the [...]
CNN.com reported on November 18, 2004 of the announcement by Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, of its partnership with the Library of Congress’ National Digital Newspaper Program to digitize over 30 million newspaper pages published between 1836 and 1922 for full public access at no cost. Source: ARCAN-L mailing list, [...]
“C-SPAN will be covering the Library of Congress’ new evening lecture series, “Digital Future,” presenting some of the best known names in digitally networked communications. The series begins with a talk by David Weinberger, an expert on blogging, who will discuss how and in which situations blogs work and their value in children’s education. The [...]
Someone I missed posting a notice that the October 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine was published.
“The November 2004 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains five articles, one workshop report, the ‘In Brief’ column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in ‘Clips and Pointers’. The Featured Collection for October 2004 is Astronomy Picture of the Day hosted [...]
Hot darn! According to an Information Today Newsbreak by Barbara Quint, OCLC and Yahoo! Search have released a toolbar that “provides one-click access to Open WorldCat as well as Yahoo! Search’s Web search engine. The free toolbar plugs into Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. A whirligig OCLC logo to the extreme left on the toolbar clicks [...]
Update for 02004-11-14: “A new version – 0.2(beta)- of Dublin Core Services/Describethis (http://www.describethis.com) has been published.” (WEB4LIB mailing list, 02004-11-14) Now this is really cool, another new Dublin Core generator service: DescribeThis, “a service designed for the automatic extraction of metadata from online resources. The site offers an easy to use interface where you can [...]
The Germanic Lexicon Project, “(formerly the Indo-European Language Resources page)” and managed by Sean Crist “with contributions by many others,” is building a digital collection with “comprehensive online coverage of the lexicons of the early Germanic languages. All of the data is available free of charge and free of copyright or other intellectual property encumbrance.” [...]
The Digital Futures book series from the University of Toronto Press looks very promising: “Digital Futures is a new series of critical probes of the digital future. The question of technology is framed by the broader traditions of literature, humanities, politics and the arts. Focussing on the ethical, political and cultural implications of emergent technologies, [...]
Gary Price reports in his ResourceShelf post “Subject Headings Now Hyperlinked in Open Worldcat” (November 10, 2004) that “When you arrive on an Open Worldcat item record via Google or Yahoo, the subject headings are now visible and hotlinked. Clicking on a subject heading link reruns the search in Google or Yahoo with that subject, [...]
Bought a boxed copy of McAfee VirusScan 9 2005 for a friend’s PC. After installing it, they ended up with no Internet Explorer, no Windows Explorer and no Outlook Express. There appear to be some real serious issues with this new release, so it might be a good idea, if you’re thinking of buying it, [...]
Not only did the Digital Archive Collection at the University of Hawaii Manoa campus Hamilton Library get disabled by the flood on October 30, but now the New York Times has picked up on the lack of planning by individuals and organizations when it comes to preserving computer data and our emerging digital culture. Katie [...]
The November issue of First Monday magazine features a series of articles on FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software).
Quoting from the Internet Archive’s Heritrix site, “Heritrix is the Internet Archive’s open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project. Heritrix (sometimes spelled heretrix, or misspelled or missaid as heratrix/heritix/ heretix/heratix) is an archaic word for heiress (woman who inherits). Since our crawler seeks to collect and preserve the digital artifacts of our culture for the [...]
Neil Beagrie, the British Library/JISC Partnership Manager, posted to the DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK list about the P2P (peer to peer) PlanetLab system and the OceanStore distributed file storage system. He cites “an interesting article in the Guardian Inside IT section today (“Planet Rising” pg 15) on current Internet R&D which may be of wider interest. It is [...]
The flash flood on the evening of October 30, 2004 that completely destroyed the basement of the University of Hawaii Manoa campus Hamilton Library demonstrates conclusively why libraries should not be built underground or store their precious cargo underground. The library was fortunate this did not happen at a time when the building was more [...]
Issue 41 of Ariadne was published on October 30, 2004 by UKOLN, University of Bath, UK.
Picturing the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla Tribes is the title of a digital historical photograph collection at the University of Oregon Libraries selected from the work of Major Lee Moorhouse (1850-1926), an Indian Agent for the Umatilla Indian Reservation, who lived in Pendleton, Oregon, and who took thousands of photographs of his charges. The [...]
Here we go again: University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist writes in the Toronto Star and on his blog about Senate Bill S-9, An Act to amend the Copyright Act, introduced by the Honourable Senator Joseph Day on October 7, 2004 (1st Reading). The bill proposes a change to the existing rule governing copyright [...]
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