The Digital Preservation Coalition updated its Directory of Digital Repositories and Services in the UK (June 2005) that you can view online or download as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02005 06 29
Update for 02005 06 29: Got version 1.8.5 of Tiki Wiki working temporarily and briefly. Some evil person or scriptbot had managed to delete all the content, likely by being able to run the install script, which I had stupidly left open. After getting Tiki Wiki running, I changed some file permissions and it ceased [...]
WordPress developers have released version 1.5.1.3 as a security release. If you’re unable to upgrade immediately, they recommend deleting the xmlrpc.php file.
The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) has launched its LOCKSS Pilot Project according to a press release cited on the Law Librarian Blog (02005 06 20).
Weblog Tools Collections has a couple of nice links on how to create WordPress 1.5 themes: 1.5 theme cheat-sheet on Tech Wench Secrets of WP Theming: Part 1, Secrets of WP Theming: Part 2, and Secrets of WP Theming: Part 3 on Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally
Science and Tecnology for Canadians (Les sciences et la technologie pour les Canadiens) is a Government of Canada site that brings together all science and technology-related online resources from Federal government Web sites. The site appears to have been launched in September 2003. In an odd omission for a government Web site, there’s no About [...]
Those big-masted vessels are drawing big crowds to Victoria from June 23 to 26, 2005 for Tall Ships Victoria 2005.
Emory University Libraries, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is hosting a one-day symposium on October 14, 02005 called Free Culture & the Digital Library: A Symposium presented by the MetaScholar Initiative of Emory University Libraries. Free Culture is described in the announcement as “the label for the grassroots movement that is resisting the ways that ‘big media [...]
The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association, has a Scholarly Communications Toolkit available for anyone wishing to help advocate changes in the scholarly publishing model. Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 02005 06 23 Charles W. Bailey, Jr. announced that his Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints [...]
For the SOSIG Web site Social Sciences Online: Past, Present and Future, also subtitled A Web Retrospective: “SOSIG is running a virtual event as part of the ESRC Social Science Week (20th-24th June 2005) to look at how the Internet is changing the face of social science research. We have invited a number of specialists [...]
The Alan Lomax Database provides free access upon registration to photographs, audio and video recordings by American folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax (1915-2002), which he collected from around the world between 1946 to 1994. Every database record of an audio recording includes a short digitized sample. Some recordings are also available as commercial downloads or [...]
American folklore/folklife films can be viewed through a service called Folkstreams.net. You can view the films the RealPlayer or MPEG 4 formats. Folkstreams.net also has a RSS 2.0 feed for keeping up with additions, along with a Folkstreams Blog poweredby WordPress. Source: AMIA-L via Dennis J. Duffy, 02005 06 22
The United Kingdom’s National Archives launched its Trafalgar Ancestors database as part of its contribution to Sea Britain 2005. The database documents the 18,000 or so individuals who fought in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar on the British side against the combined fleets of France and Spain. According to the database 27 year old George [...]
The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association, premiered its LITA Blog on June 15, 02005. The blog is powered by WordPress.
Peter Scott reported to the WEB4LIB list on June 20, 02005 that he sold off Libdex and Library Weblogs to a European company, the name of which is Bisca International Investments Ltd, according to Libdex. The About page on Peter Scott’s Library Blog says he still maintains both sites. He also has lists of library [...]
Manitobia, Life and Times documents historical Manitoba through key events. The site launched on May 11, 02005 and is a cooperative venture between the Manitoba Library Consortium and partners. The bilingual site includes resources for educators and offers digitized newspapers, maps, photographs, and narrative essays on each of the historical themes. A blog is also [...]
Original post 02005 06 13: According to a LATimes.com article, the newspaper will be introducing wikitorials the week of June 20, 02005, where readers can write online editorials using wiki technology. Source: Weblog Tools Collection, 02005 06 13 Update for 02005 06 19: The first Wikitorial at LATimes.com had to be removed only a couple [...]
Anyone conducting genealogical research into Anglo-Saxon England now has a new resource launched on May 27, 02005, the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE). PASE is a free database of all named and anonymous individuals recorded in all pre-Conquest (before 1066 AD) sources. The sources themselves are not available, but all information about the person, including [...]
CartoonHub is the name of the Web site frontend to the digital repository and database of over 90,000 cartoons preserved by the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. Free registration is required to access the database.
The University of Nottingham in England and the University of Lund in Sweden are collaborating on an international open access repository directory service called OpenDOAR (Open Directory of Open Access Repositories).
Announced on the DIGLIB mailing list (02005 06 17): “The June 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains a commentary, three articles, 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 June [...]
Update for 02005 06 17: According to this CMS Wire story, Jim Winstead announced on June 14, 02005 that he’d sold Blo.gs to Yahoo! Original post, 02005 05 14 The current founder and owner of Blo.gs, Jim Winstead, is selling Blo.gs to a new mystery buyer. Could it be Google? According to his About page, [...]
The June 02005 issue of RLG DigiNews (vol. 9, no. 3) is out. The two feature articles are “Selective Archiving of Web Resources: A Study of Acquisition Costs at the National Library of Australia” and “Bringing the Digital Revolution to Medieval Musicology: The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)”.
According to this Yahoo! News story, Kodak will be discontinuing production of black-and-white photographic paper for printing from camera film negatives. For anyone familiar with photographic history, this is an astounding and truly sad occasion. The company will continue to produce black-and-white photo negative film and negative processing chemicals. The story pointed out that other [...]
The United Kingdom’s JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) announced a series of projects funded under its Digital Repositories Programme 2005 call for proposals. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02005 06 16
So says the provocative title of an announcement by the United Kingdom’s Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and Digital Preservation Coalition by way of introducing their report based on a survey “about the future access to digital museum, library and archive collections. … the survey highlighted a major concern that 90 per cent of the [...]
Grokker, the visual search tool, formerly available only as a commercial, desktop product, is now available for free as a Web-based search tool, “powered by Yahoo! Search”. The company also rebranded its retail desktop search tool as myGrokker. Like Google and Amazon, Grokker also offers a software development kit for developers to build visual search [...]
In addition to Talkr.com, which can convert text-only blogs to speech, another option, noted by Gary Price in SearchEngineWatch.com note and Jenny Levine on her blog, is SpeakWire.com, which converts individual RSS feeds to speech. SpeakWire also provides this convenient definition of the differences between podcasting and autocasting: ” ‘Podcasting’ is making audio files (most [...]
Update for 02005 06 14: The EPIC mini-movie about the future of news media and the evolution of a personalized information content platform was updated to include mention of podcasting and libraries (yeay!). Source: It’s All Good, 02005 06 06 via WEB4LIB list, 02005 06 13 Original post: 02005 04 21 Here’s a wacky and [...]
Orange, the Open Movie Project: “The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite Blender and other OS tools such as Yafray, Python, Verse, Gimp, and Cinepaint. … Not only will the project be [...]
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