Issue no. 9 (July – December 2004) of the DPC/PADI “What’s New in Digital Preservation” bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site and the National Library of Australia’s PADI Web site: Digital Preservation Coalition: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/ National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/qdigest/dec2004.html Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02004-12-23
The current Digital Document Quarterly, DDQ 3(4), written and published by H.M. Gladney (HMG Consulting) is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_3_4.htm. The DDQ 3(4) table of contents includes: Democratization of Information Digital Preservation: Metadata Questioned; What We Learn from Copyright Protection; Repository-centric initiatives; NDIIPP Critique; Progress with TDO Approach News Reports and Reading Recommendations Personal Software Recommendations [...]
The terrible, horrifying magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that shattered the lives of a million or more (120,000 60,000 25,000 11,000 dead as of December 30, 2004, five million a million plus people displaced) in countries around the Indian Ocean on the morning of December 26, 2004 has an eerie parallel in Michael Crichton’s latest [...]
Update for 02004-12-29: Peter Suber’s Open Access News and Gary Price’s Resource Shelf note the addition of author, publication and date range searching to the Advanced Search capabilities of Google Scholar. The date range searching is not without problems. Gary Price’s ResourceShelf contains a writeup about the new Google Scholar service that’s now in beta [...]
“Instant Messaging – Collaborative Tool or Educator’s nightmare!” by Robert Farmer, Mount Saint Vincent University, New Brunswick. Source: DIG_REF mailing list, 02004-12-25
The United Kingdom’s National Archives issued a call for comments on its custodial policy for electronic records. Comments are welcome until March 11, 2005. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02004-12-22
Time Magazine‘s electronic archives of more than 270,000 articles back to its first issue in March 1923 are online. The content is free to Time subscribers. One intriguing feature on the site is Ask the Archivist which consists of a contact form and a Weblog that began on December 9, 2004. The RSS feed for [...]
Two newish toolbars and search engine plugins for Mozilla and Firefox browsers that search bioinformatics databases and sites are Biobar, “a toolbar for browsing biological data and databases,” and the BioMed Central search plugin for Firefox. Source: WEB4LIB mailing list, 02004-11-17 BioMed Central also created a Google Scholar tool for Firefox, which is found on [...]
From Australian developer David Funnell comes a GNU-licensed open source public (and other kinds of) library intranet application he calls Brushtail. Basic system requirements are a PHP-enabled Web server and a MySQL database. The application’s name refers to the “brushtail possum … a cute furry Australian marsupial.” Source: WEB4LIB mailing list, 02004-12-02
The Documentation Research & Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India, has a Search-engine for Digital Libraries (SDL) that “harvests Digital Libraries and Open Access Journals in the field of Library and Information Science” using OAI-PMH.
Yahoo! has introduced a beta version of its Video Search feature. Media producers are encouraged to submit content for crawling through its Media RSS Module, an RSS 2.0 module or extension that allows for binary content such as audiovisual files to be included in the field. Supported formats for searching, which can be limited through [...]
Jennifer Levine, The Shifted Librarian, posted this great list of blogs relating to water resources: For the Google cache record, here are the links folks sent in:
Not to be outdone by Google and other competitors, Microsoft launched its desktop search application in beta mode on December 13, 2004. Source: “Microsoft debuts desktop search tool”, Associated Press, MSNBC, 02004-12-13
That friendly search engine butler Ask Jeeves just got a little more personal with the introduction of a beta version of a desktop search application. Source: “Ask Jeeves launches desktop search application” by John Tilak, Digital Media Europe, 02004-12-16.
A new issue of RLG DigiNews (December 15, 2004) looks at Florida’s Ephemeral Cities multimedia digital collection centered around Sanborn fire insurance maps, geographical metadata, and includes an update on the work of the OCLC-RLG PREMIS working group that’s examining issues around metadata for digital preservation.
Blogger Jobs: Jobs Posted By Bloggers or Jobs For Bloggers. Great site!
The media’s abuzz with Google’s latest venture into the Academy: the search engine will partner with various libraries to digitize their holdings, chiefly those in the public domain (copyright-expired), and make them available for searching and viewing. For various articles on Google’s plans check this link from Google News.
Update for 2004.12.14: Laurie Mann, the Dead People Server Curator, reported that the DPS is alive and well. Update for 2004.04.14: Thanks to Dan from Chicago for pointing out that the Dead People Server is, well, er, dead. Maybe it’s being resurrected. Time will tell. I hope I’m not around to see my name appear [...]
Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC) was established in 1955 and is completing 50 years of its existence. To commemorate its Golden Jubilee year, IASLIC is hosting an International Conference on Information Management in a Knowledge Society (ICIM2005). The city of Mumbai will be the venue of this International Conference scheduled for [...]
Issue 10 of the HEP [High Energy Physics] Libraries Webzine was published last week: http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/ Articles cover the practical application of the FRBR model of cataloguing, automatic keywording research, and reports from Cuba and the UK on their latest Open Access-related news. Table of contents: ******************* Using FRBR – Knut Hegna Why Keywording Matters – [...]
Stuck for search terms. Give Google Suggest (in beta mode as of December 9, 2004) a shot. As you type in the field, suggestions appear with total search results. Talk about being able to cheat at Googlewhacking, no doubt other word-based game players may find ways to use this new search tool to their advantage.
“DRIZZLE is a blog published by Steve Butzel. It was started in December 2004 with the mission of highlighting news stories of interest to archivists, records managers and other interested professionals and students, and fostering communication amongst these folks.” The name playfully refers to Peter Kurilecz’s RAIN (Records and Archives In the News) e-mail postings [...]
The Winter 2004 Issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning is now online. Published by Canada’s Athabasca University, this issue begins by announcing the birth of the Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research (CIDER), the research arm of the Centre for Distance Education at the university. CIDER Press published Theory [...]
Are you a blogger? What motivates you to blog? Do you a responsibility beyond your own individual blog to the world at large that expresses itself through your writing. If you want to answer these questions, visit Martin Kuhn’s Blog Ethics Analysis 2004, a blog he created as part of his doctoral research at the [...]
You too can write news stories at Wikinews, a new project now in beta of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., the folks who brought you Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikispecies, a free species directory, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, and the software that powers Wikipedia, WikiMedia. Note the caution: “Our mission is to create a diverse environment where [...]
“The first International CORDRA Workshop will be held February 4-5, 2005 at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. CORDRA (Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture) is an open model for building systems than can share and reuse learning content. The project’s specific goal is to describe how to establish federations of learning content repositories that [...]
“Archiving scientific literature: an experience with e-prints archive software.” In Parthan, S. and Jeevan, V.K.J. and Majumdar, K., Eds. Proceedings Information Management in e-Libraries (IMeL), pp. 321-334, Kharagpur (India). E-print source: E-LIS: E-prints in Library and Information Science Source: ResourceShelf, 02004-12-06
“The [United Kingdom] National Archives is pleased to announce the publication of The National Archives Standard for record repositories. The new National Archives Standard is the recognised benchmark for caring for records and providing access to them. This new Standard also includes guidance on the preservation of digital and electronic records. The Standard?s recommendations are [...]
The European Union’s DigiCULT project published its latest thematic issue: The Future Digital Heritage Space, described as a “navigation tool for boards and directors of heritage organisations and research centres, IT project managers, and curators of digital collections, virtual exhibitions and environments” who wish to map out over the next 10 to 15 years possible [...]
The December issue of First Monday magazine features an article by Kate Raynes?Goldie, a Canadian, on the popular LiveJournal blogging system. Other articles of interest to me include: Gifting Technologies by Kevin McGee and J?rgen Sk?geby Libraries and University Presses Can Collaborate to Improve Scholarly Communication or “Why Can?t We All Just Get Along?” by [...]
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