To mark the forthcoming re-launch of the National Digital Archive of Datasets website, we are in the process of setting up a user group. This initiative is part of The National Archives’ continuing efforts to improve the service we offer. We aim to discuss issues of usability and utility for NDAD users and to develop [...]
The Royal Ontario Museum’s ROMImages database provides access to hundreds of digital images of museum objects. You can browse or search a variety of ways. Source: The PHSC E-mail, Supplement to Photographic Canadiana, April 2005
According to a Los Angeles Times story, an American astronomer, Brad Schaefer, after studying the Farnese Atlas, a 7-foot marble statue of Atlas holding the spherical universe on his shoulders (see second Source citation for statute images), at Italy’s Museo Archeologico Nazionale (National Archaeological Museum), decoded the constellations on the globe to determine the statue [...]
The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Government Information Preservation Working Group (GIPWoG), along with the DVD Association, is investigating “a standard way of labeling CDs and DVDs for longevity”. They’re seeking a few good answers from you via this Digital Storage Media Survey. Source: C|Net News.com, “Disc expiration dates debated” by [...]
On Monday, May 9, 2005, the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is hosting the METRO Digitization Expo. This is your opportunity to meet face-to-face with the leading digitization hardware, software, and service providers to find the perfect tools and resources for your digital projects. Vendors expected to appear include: Academic Imaging, Backstage Library Works, [...]
The American Museum of Photography, a virtual museum run by Bill Becker, has a couple of nifty exhibits on multiple exposure trick photography: Seeing Double (http://www.photography-museum.com/seeingdouble.html) and Photographic Fictions (http://www.photography-museum.com/phofictionsmontages.html)
Update for 02005-04-23: Implemented Jerome’s Keywords Plugin for WordPress so I’m taggin’ like crazy. Bruce Sterling in a brief article (“Order Out of Chaos”) for the April issue of Wired Magazine covered the emerging undisciplined volkscategorization art of folksonomy (pl., folksonomies). Coincidentally, just after reading the article, which is online (search Wired Magazine for folksonomies), [...]
Halifax Public Libraries introduced a local history and genealogy gateway for Nova Scotians present and past called Roots to the Past. One of the features here is a Halifax Literary Walking Tour. Source: REFCAN-L mailing list, 02005 03 24
Since I’ve got a site called the TikiWiki Hut, running under the open source TikiWiki application, I couldn’t resist the sound of this company’s name and merchandise: TikiMac, the Macintosh Outfitters. They’re based in Colorado, USA, but have a cool opening animation to their site and a playful corporate attitude. The Big Tiki Drive, a [...]
AOL’s got a new blogging service for teenagers called Red Blogs. Funny, although C|Net News.com supports trackbacks/pingbacks, I couldn’t highlight and copy the URL on their page for this story. I was led to the C|Net story by a post on the Weblog Tools Collection blog. And according to another post and trackbacks on the [...]
Updated for 02005 03 28, mid-afternoon: Tsunami warnings have been cancelled following last night’s strong earthquake, an aftershock from the December 26, 02004 quake, in Indonesia near the same location. Original post 02005 03 28, 12:22 pm: Just heard on the radio that a two-minute aftershock earthquake measuring 8.2 to 8.7 magnitude struck off the [...]
The Library of Congress is pleased to announce the release of the James Madison Papers, now available on the Library’s American Memory Web site: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/madison_papers/ The James Madison Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consist of approximately 12,000 items captured in some 72,000 digital images. They document the life of the [...]
Operated by the General Register Office for Scotland, ScotlandsPeople is “the official government source of genealogical data for Scotland.” You can conduct free surname searches for records that date between 1533 and 1954. Full access to the database and digitized content costs “?6 (approx. EUR10 or USD9), payable by credit or debit card … [which] [...]
Announced on the DIGLIB mailing list, 02005 03 27: ACM SIGMOD and the VLDB Foundation have established a joint program to donate database literature to universities in developing countries, with the goal of assisting in the expansion of the database community in those countries. Currently available literature includes SIGMOD’s Silver Edition and the SIGMOD 2003 [...]
Psst, wanna make a quick buck on eBay? P.T. Barnum and one of his competitors would be proud of this one. Pick a toy, any toy, dream up the most outrageous story you can imagine that suggests the toy is possessed, perhaps by the ghost of Elvis or Elvira. Register as an eBay seller and [...]
I kid you not. While browsing through PublicTechnology.net I noticed this unusually named guild, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. According to the PublicTechnology.net public sector IT directory, PublicPages.net, The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists is the 100th Livery Company of the City of London, bringing together the centuries old Livery tradition and information technology [...]
PublicTechnology.net: e-Government and Public Sector IT News from the United Kingdom. Great portal for keeping up on information technology news from the Brits and related IT stories from the European Union; also contains a job board, an events calendar and a directory of public sector organizations and suppliers. You can subscribe to news headlines through [...]
Digital preservation summer school in France? Oui, the European Union’s DELOS Network of Excellent presents the DELOS Digital Preservation Summer School at Sophia Antipolis (near Nice and Antibes in the South of France) from June 5 to 11, 02005. Closing date for registration is 10 May 2005 Source: ARCAN-L mailing list, 02005 03 24
DRH 2005: Digital Resources for the Humanities University of Lancaster, UK 4th – 7th September 2005 IMPORTANT DATES: * 31st March, 2005: Deadline for submission of abstracts * April, 2005: Notification of acceptance of papers, sessions, posters and workshops * April 2005: Registration opens * May 2005: Provisional programme announced. Conference Web Site: http://ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/ or [...]
Thomas Dowling reported to the WEB4LIB list (02005 03 24) that “Libweb, my directory of library home pages, is moving. As of March 23, 2005, Libweb’s official location is http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb. … Libweb moved from its original home at the University of Washington Libraries to the Berkeley SunSITE in January, 1996. At the time it listed [...]
Matt Mullenweg, the current lead developer of WordPress, announced at the WordPress 1.5 100,000 Downloads celebration in San Francisco, that he was incorporating as WordPress, Incorporated. Source: SFist, 02005 03 22, via Weblog Tools Collection, 02005 03 23
An executive overview by records management consultant Julie Gable in SearchCIO.com, “What CIOs should know about records“, on the management of e-records. There’s one reference to the importance of archives, but only from the legal standpoint of limiting exposure during the process of discovery that occurs during a legal action (e.g., lawsuit).
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Saw a Google News Alert item about a digital magazine reader called the Zinio Reader (version 3.0). Took it out for a spin. If the Internet were everywhere and didn’t cost a bundle, and I had a Tablet PC with abundant, inexpensive portable power, I could almost stand to read a magazine this way. Pricing [...]
Co-sponsored by the University of Alaska Anchorage Womens Studies Program and the university’s Consortium Library, Ordinary and Extraordinary Lives of Alaskan Women, 1880-1960 is a virtual exhibit featuring many archival photographs and links to descriptions of archival records that illuminate the many different roles played by women as Alaska developed from a territory to to [...]
OurMedia.org, a publishing and archiving system for multimedia creators, has launched. According to the FAQ page, What’s the big idea here? The idea is pretty simple: People who create video, music, photos, audio clips and other personal media can store their stuff for free on Ourmedia’s servers forever, as long as they’re willing to share [...]
Update for 02005 03 23: Registration is open at the workshop Web site http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/delos-rep-workshop/intro.html Original post, 02005 01 24 Call for papers: Digital Repositories: Interoperability and Common Services, May 11-13, 2005, Crete “DELOS invites papers for a forthcoming workshop on the topic of digital repositories. Initial submission and selection will be by extended abstract. The [...]
Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Problems Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY, USA Cornell University Library offers an ongoing digital preservation training program assisted by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshop targets managers at organizations that are facing the digital preservation challenge and highlights the need for the integration of [...]
Sun Microsystems is collaborating with James Burke on his KnowledgeWeb Project. You may recognize his name as the author and host of the Connections program on PBS in the United States. The project sounds very much like Wikipedia and other wiki-based information sharing resources, but with editorial control and designed for incorporation into educational curricula: [...]
Must be that time of year. Blogs and wikis are in the air everywhere. The New England Chapter of ASIST (NEASIST) is presenting a workshop on May 3, 02005 called “Syndicate, Aggregate, Communicate: New Web Tools in Real Applications for Libraries, Companies and Regular Folk.” Presenters are Megan Fox, Jennifer Levine and Michael Stephens. Source: [...]
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