The State of Washington selected SSH Communications Security‘s, “the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol,” SSH Tectia as the security mechanism for the Washington State Digital Archives. Source: Press release from SSH Communications Security on Yahoo! Finance, 02005 02 28
“The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ecai.org) will hold its second Cultural Atlas Congress in collaboration with Fudan University in Shanghai, China between May 9 and 13, [2005]. … Please also take the time to register for the Congress at http://www.ecai.org/Activities/shanghai2005/conference_home.html. Registration is free of charge and, thanks to the support of Fudan University, includes complimentary [...]
Nice article by Martha Irvine in Arizona’s Tucson Citizen newspaper date February 25, 2005 on the importance of digital archiving and how digitization programs are enabling access to information for individuals who would otherwise be unable to see it. The downside of this positive spin, however, is that user visits to archives and museums appear [...]
Colorado’s “Collaborative Digitization Program invites museums, archives and libraries in the Mountain-Plains region to participate in a new IMLS funded initiative “Sound Model: Collaborative Infrastructure for Digital Audio.” The program will provide an adaptable model for a regional infrastructure by converting 2000 hours of analog sound recordings held by cultural heritage institutions. Funding: Information about [...]
Speaker presentations from Sun Microsystems’ 2005 Worldwide Education and Research Conference held in San Francisco February 14 to 17 are now available at http://www.sun.com/edu/events/2005/erc/. Source: KESIG@sun.com mailing list, 02005-02-28
“digitalpermanence is a McGill University Archives initiative, promoting the collaborative, strategic, long-term management and preservation of McGill University?s electronic records.” Source: ARCAN-L mailing list, 02005-02-28
Roy Tennant wrote on WEB4LIB (02005-02-28) about the discussion on the list regarding American Library Association President-elect Michael Gorman’s negative comments on the Blog People that “Apropos of a recent discussion here on Web4Lib, George Needham of the OCLC “It’s All Good” blog has written a short but wonderful satire. ”
I can’t seem to send a trackback to another site, so I’m going to see if I can trackback one of my own posts. I had this same problem in WordPress 1.2.x and found a WordPress Support forum thread that explained how to fix it. Can’t find it now, but other WordPress 1.5 users seem [...]
Bj?rn Hansen relaunched Joshua Schachter‘s original GeoURL site on February 25, 2005 as version 2.0 in beta. Thanks to Joseph Aquino for letting me know.
“The Institutional Archives Registry, recently updated, now indexes 388 archives in 39 countries. (OAIster harvests from 405 archives, but some of those are not OA Archives.) … AMERICAN SCIENTIST OPEN ACCESS FORUM: A complete Hypermail archive of the ongoing discussion of providing open access to the peer-reviewed research literature online (1998-2004) is available at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/” [...]
EDUCAUSE has published a new, free e-book, Educating the Net Generation, a collection of essays by educators and students edited by Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger. The book can be read online as HTML by individual essay, or viewed and downloaded by individual essay or in its whole as PDF files. Source: WEB4LIB [...]
2005-02-25 Update: WordPress developer Nick Momrik promptly came up with a fix that solved the problem so I can continue to use his plugins to moderate trackbacks and pingbacks and catch that nasty spam stuff. Thanks Nick! I managed to isolate and fix the problem with WordPress 1.5 displaying blank pages in Mozilla Firefox. I [...]
DigiCULT: Technology Watch Report 3 – Now Available “Core Technologies for the Cultural and Scientific Heritage Sector”, January 2005 As in previous TWRs, this volume examines six core technologies. Those covered here underlie a wide range of future applications, and include: Open Source Software, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval technologies, Location Based Systems (especially GIS [...]
2005-02-25 Update: See my later post for the problem and its solution. After upgrading to WordPress 1.5, and making some modifications to one of the Default theme files, the sidebar, I’ve been unable to view my site in Mozlla Firefox. I can see it in Internet Explorer, but only sometimes. The problem appears to be [...]
The Library of Congress’ Prints and Photographs Division added the following collections to its Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, with about 90% of the records accompanied by a digital image. Some collections, however, only display a thumbnail when you’re accessing the site outside the Library of Congress’ network: The George Grantham Bain Collection (thousands of [...]
Version 3 of the Google Toolbar is in beta for testing. New features include a Web form spell checker, translation of English into other languages, and an autolinking service that, among other things, converts United States addresses into an online map. The other things the autolink can do are “link package tracking numbers to delivery [...]
CBC Radio’s B.C. Almanac program for February 21, 2005, hosted by Mark Forsythe, is on the topic of blogging. Guests are David Beers, editor of The Tyee, and Darren Barefoot, one of the organizers of the Northern Voice Canadian Blogging Conference held at the University of British Columbia downtown campus on February 19, 2005.
“The IS&T Archiving 2005 preliminary program has been released. IS&T Archiving 2005 will be held April 26 to 29, 2005 at the Hilton Washington Hotel in Washington DC, USA.” More information at http://www.imaging.org/conferences/archiving2005/ Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02005-02-21
Today’s paper brings news of Project Steve from the U.S. National Center for Science Education, which is using one of creation-science’s/creationists/intelligent design believers tools against them. Project Steve recruited scientists named Stephen/Steven/Steve to endorse the following statement: Evolution is a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences, and the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in [...]
Published since 2002 by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA), perhaps the most beautiful scholarly, peer-reviewed online journals that’s freely accessible is its Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture.
Ross Singer in a WEB4LIB post (02005-02-17) mentioned Dan Chudnov’s page, “Appropriate Resolvers, Dynamically: Adding rel and title attributes to OpenURLs. A Prototype.” Dan links to the OpenURL Standard, under development by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Committee AX (see also their bibliography on OpenURL), the UK OpenURL Router, a “a central registry of [...]
The Open Language Archives Community, according to its mission statement, ” is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current practice for the digital archiving of language resources, and (ii) developing a network of interoperating repositories and services for [...]
The February 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is out. Among the articles are Annelies van Nispen, Rutger Kramer and Ren? van Horik, “The eXtensible Past: The Relevance of the XML Data Format for Access to Historical Datasets and a Strategy for Digital Preservation”, D-Lib Magazine, v. 11, no. 2 (February 2005), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february05/vannispen/02vannispen.html. The authors are [...]
No bull, the Strayhorn release of WordPress, version 1.5, is the coolest ever. Congrats to the dev team for all their hard work! There’s a lot of new behind-the-screens work that you can’t see unless you adminster or have access privileges. Comment spam handling is supposed to be much improved too.
A new issue of RLG DigiNews (February 15, 02005) features articles on a newspaper digitization project, digitized historical maps, and the Archiving Web Resources International Conference held in Australia in November 2004. This issue also contains an announcement for a new RLG product for archivists and archives: the RLG EAD Report Card (released January 02005), [...]
Not yet announced on the Dev Blog of the WordPress crew, but version 1.5 (“Strayhorn”), a major upgrade with new spam fighting tools, is available for download as of 02005 02 16. I’ll be upgrading The Ten Thousand Year Blog (June 02003-) in a day or two.
From the DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK list, 02005-02-09: In response to many requests for a simple demonstration of the capabilities of the LOCKSS system, we present the LOCKSS Winter 2005 Card – http://www.lockss.org/card/2005/february/ We will publish the Card during February and March; after then it will disappear from the Web. During that time LOCKSS machines around the world [...]
The United States Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) will be airing an episode of its NOVA series on February 15, 2005 called “Saving the National Treasures”, about efforts to preserve the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights housed in the National Archives. Source: ARCHIVES mailing list, 02005-02-10
The February 2005 issue of First Monday contains two articles on digital libraries and digital-based music: “A Framework for Internet archeology: Discovering Use Patterns in Digital Library and Web?based Information Resources” by Scott Nicholson “Reflecting on the Digit(al)isation of Music” by David Beer
Almost 50 years after statehood and more than a century after being acquired by the United States, why am I not surprised that Alaska and Hawaii are not part of the new Google Maps service now in beta mode: “Google Maps is an online service that allows users in the U.S. to find location information, [...]
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