The George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers, preserved by Archives & Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries, bills itself as “The world’s largest collection of Amelia Earhart papers, memorabilia and artifacts.” If you’re as fascinated as I’ve been for a long time by this female contemporary of Howard Hughes, this is a must-visit and [...]
The arXiv.org e-Print archive network used by scientists (physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, quantitative biologists) is now utilizing some of the tools popularized by the blogging community. Details and comments on the Cosmic Variance and the Crooked Timber blogs. Source: WEB4LIB mailing list, 02005 08 25
University of Michigan-Flint Associate Professor of Art Darryl Baird is embarking on an ambitious photographic tour he’s been planning for three years: ” ‘Re-Picturing the Picturesque‘ … a retracing of an early “Picturesque” tour of the Wye River valley undertaken by Reverend William Gilpin in 1770. … My tour will look at the intervening 200+ [...]
“Thanks to the GREAT work of Xiaorong Xiang (a Ph.D student here at Notre Dame in Computer Science), we have all but finished the development work on MyLibrary@Ockham. … MyLibrary@Ockham uses MyLibrary to collect, organize, and cache more than 430,000 records harvested from various scholarly OAI archives. The system then uses reports written against the [...]
“In celebration of the 85th anniversary of women’s right to vote in the United States, the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the online release of Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman’s Party, available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/. This presentation is a selection of 448 of the approximately 2,650 photographs in [...]
The Digital Curation Centre in Bath, England, invites you to their DCC Information Day on September 9, 0005, at UKOLN, University of Bath, between 12 noon and 4 pm.
The Northeast Document Conservation Center Presents PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY: STEWARDSHIP OF DIGITAL ASSETS A pre-conference to the Museum Computer Network’s 2005 Conference November 1-2, 2005 The Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts WHAT IS PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY? This conference, taught by leading experts in digital preservation, addresses the question of managing and preserving digital assets [...]
Presentations and a conference report from the Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach conference held in Denver, Colorado, on July 18, 2005 are now available from OCLC’s Digitization & Preservation Online Resource Center.
Writely, a Web-based collaborative document editor gives anyone a taste of the wiki experience in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editing environment. It’s a nice system that’s in beta mode and you can even download documents you create back to your PC, but upload existing documents in a variety of [...]
Sun Microsystems is beaming out its digital rights management (DRM) plan through a new site called the Open Media Commons. The project was officially announced by Sun President Jonathan Schwartz at the Progress and Freedom Foundation’s Aspen Summit on Monday.
Two new versions of the fabulous TikiWiki software are now available for download: version 1.8.6 (Polaris branch, most stable) and 1.9.1 (Sirius branch, stable, but still under testing).
According to its home page, “Prot?g? is a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework. Prot?g? is based on Java, is extensible, and provides a foundation for customized knowledge-based applications. Prot?g? supports Frames, XML Schema, RDF(S) and OWL. It provides a plug-and-play environment that makes it a flexible base for rapid prototyping and application [...]
Memory Alpha has to be the ultimate Star Trek fan site. And, guess what, it’s presented as a wiki dynamically created in real-time from contributions by you, members of the Star Trek fanverse. Wiki me up!
HawaiiUP, Podcasting in Paradise is a WordPress site devoted to podcasting in the Hawaiian Islands or with a Hawaiian theme. I learned a new term today, podroll, just like blogroll, except it’s links to podcasting sites. Another great podcasting resource is the University of Calgary Wiki entry on Podcasting, through which I found the HawaiiUP [...]
Anyone involved as a victim or otherwise in phishing attempts should read “The economy of phishing: A survey of the operations of the phishing market” by Christopher Abad, First Monday, volume 10, number 9 (September 02005), http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_9/abad/index.html
I neglected to note the existence of some useful articles in the August 02005 issue of First Monday (vol. 10, no. 8): The unacknowledged convergence of open source, open access, and open science by John Willinsky Virtually there: Travelling with new media by Peter B. White and Naomi Rosh White Sooner or later we will [...]
The Canadian Council of Archives announced its My Archives, My Government awareness program on August 18, 02005: “Archives awareness means making contact to create an impact-getting involved to increase the support and use of Canada’s archives. My Archives, My Government will guide participants through several points of contact with their federal and provincial political representatives, [...]
If those acronyms mean nothing to you, then head on over to the August 02005 issue of the High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine where you’ll find this article: “E-LIS : an International Open Archive Towards Building Open Digital Libraries” by Antonella De Robbio and Imma Subirats Coll
According to a story in The Register by Gavin Clarke (“RSS moving to third release”, 02005 08 18), “The first public draft of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 3 Lite specification was released for review and comment on Thursday. RSS 3 Lite is designed as an “efficient” and “succinct” form of RSS that is meant [...]
Due to a security issue uncovered after the initial announcement of version 1.5.2 of WordPress, anyone who downloaded it late Sunday night (August 14, 02005) should check that they have the latest version of wp-settings.php, according to the WordPress Development Blog, and this interesting post and comments in Doug Campbell’s Geek Ramblings blog. A new [...]
Roy Tennant, who’s managing this project, posted a note to the WEB4LIB list (02005 08 16) on the Metasearch Infrastructure Project at the University of California’s California Digital Library. The project report, “Integrating Information Resources: Principles, Technologies, and Approaches” by Heather Christenson and Roy Tennant can be downloaded as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
The Art of War propaganda and military art virtual exhibit at the United Kingdom’s National Archives is an impressive reminder marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two of how the war was fought on the home front and documented on the battle lines by illustrators and military artists. Each of the [...]
The August 02005 issue of RLG DigiNews (vol. 9, no. 4) is out. The two feature articles are “Developing Digital Preservation Programs: the Cornell Survey of Institutional Readiness, 2003-2005″ and “Watch This Space: Ten Promising Digital Preservation Initiatives”
In addition to Walt at Random, Walt Crawford‘s not-quite-ready for Cites & Insights blog, Walt Crawford, the publisher of Cites & Insights, is “a senior analyst at RLG in Mountain View, California.” Naturally, the opinions expressed in his Net publications are personal views. If you ever see him on an Alaska cruise and think it’s [...]
The Center for Internet Research in Denmark offers, among other treats, an online book on how to archive Web sites.
When the Brits do culture, they do it right: check out the SF Hub for Science Fiction Research at the University of Liverpool. As Dr. Who would say, It’s fantastic! Update for 02007 03 11: One of the groups supporting the University of Liverpool’s science fiction research holdings is the Science Fiction Foundation, which also [...]
I read all his books debunking UFOs. He certainly made a nonbeliever out of me. Philip Klass died in Florida on Tuesday, August 9, 2005. The Klass Files is an archived collection of his Skeptics UFO Newletter (SUN) maintained by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). Source: “Philip Klass: [...]
I read in physicist Bob (Voodoo Science) Park’s weekly What’s New that UFO debunker Philip Klass died at 85. I read a number of Klass’ books in the 1970s and 1980s, and they certainly influenced my thinking. No one ever stepped forward to challenge his “$10,000 prize for solid scientific evidence of visits by extraterrestrials.” [...]
The fourth issue of Webology (ISSN 1735-188X), being volume 2, no. 2 (August 2005), is out.
Updated for 02005 08 10 “BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de, Release 2, August 2005 The new release BASE in its updated version discloses now more than 2,3 Mio. documents of 130 online – resources, incl. many scholarly full text archives, accessible through the international protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI). Documents are mainly [...]
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