The Ten Thousand Year Blog

As announced on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK and other lists (02005 10 31): “Issue no. 11 (June – September 2005) 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: National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/qdigest/sep2005.html Digital Preservation Coalition: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/ ‘What’s [...]

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The Atlas of Napoleonic Cartography in Italy is a “web atlas … designed to show the number and variety of manuscript maps surviving from the Napoleonic War period and the value of internet technology for their analysis, dissemination, and use. Created by Anne Marie Claire Godlewska, Paul Schauerte, Paul Godlewski, Al-Nasir Hamir, Madame Marie-Anne Corvisier [...]

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World Usability Day, a project of the Usability Professionals’ Association, is on November 3, 02005. It’s not just about Web or Internet usability.

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The ECURE series of conferences is geared to the requirements of managing electronic information in higher education (colleges and universities). ECURE 2006 is being held at Arizona State University?s Tempe Campus in Tempe, Arizona, USA, from February 27 to March 1, 02006.

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In Italian it’s the Catalogo illustrato delle piante di Roma online (CIPRO), and in English it’s the Illustrated Catalogue of the Maps of Rome Online, a handy database in Italian, French, English and German to historic maps of Rome. The site’s maintained by the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut f?r Kunstgeschichte in Rome and is part of [...]

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From the front page, “… the Geospatial Electronic Records web site, which serves as a portal to resources on managing and preserving geospatial data and related electronic records. The web site is intended for communities of archivists, geospatial data librarians, electronic records managers, geographical data product developers and others who share an interest in geospatial [...]

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Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference, March 23-25, 02006, Global Learning Conference Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The conference will include presentations on collaborative work and digital preservation. Source: DIGLIB list, 02005 10 28

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The RSS feed URL for D-Lib Magazine is http://www.dlib.org/rss/dlib.rss.

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Gardner Campbell, “There?s Something in the Air: Podcasting in Education” (Adobe Acrobat PDF or podcast read by the author), Educause Review 40, no. 6 (November/December 2005). Source: WEB4LIB list, 02005 10 27

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From the announcement on DIGLIB and other mailing lists (02005 10 25): “Detailed images of soaring aisles, delicate carvings, and stained-glass windows from the 12th and 13th centuries are captured on a new University of Pittsburgh Web site, http://images.library.pitt.edu/c/chartres, documenting the famous French Cathedral of Chartres (11th-16th centuries), located approximately 50 miles southwest of Paris. [...]

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The Galaxy Formation Group at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany has some cool movies and still images of a computer simulation called the Millennium Simulation that models the evolution of our universe. University of Victoria astrophysicist Julio Navarro is one of those involved in this international collaborative effort. Select the Data Visualization [...]

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From the announcement on the ARCAN-L list (02005 10 20): “Saskatchewan Archives is launching a new online database on October 21 which will allow, for the first time, genealogists and researchers around the globe to have access to Saskatchewan’s homestead information via the World Wide Web. The information is available online at www.saskhomesteads.com and may [...]

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Users can contribute business plans and their Dot Com stories to the Business Plan Archive and the Dot Com Archive.

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“The MetaScholar Initiative of the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University encompasses more than ten digital libary projects undertaken in the past six years, and has received funding from sources that include the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Library of [...]

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You can’t accuse we archivists of not having a sense of humor. Check out this new virtual exhibit from the Library and Archives Canada: Life of a Rock Star (Les vedettes du roc), all about Canada’s first rock group — not who you might think they are.

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From the ADAPT Project’s front page: “The ADAPT project is developing technologies for building a scalable and reliable infrastructure for the long-term access and preservation of digital assets. Our approach uses a distributed object architecture that operates on different levels of abstractions built around grid technologies and web services. Major software components have been prototyped [...]

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“The International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES) is part of a series of international conferences in the field of digital preservation. This series started with the ‘Chinese-European Workshop on Digital Preservation’ in Beijing in July 2004.” This year’s conference was held in Goettingen, Germany, on September 15 and 16, 02005, and was hosted [...]

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As announced on the DIGLIB and other lists (02005 10 18): “The October 2005 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20793 Volume 9, Number 5 is a special, certification themed issue and includes: Feature Article 1 Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories: Creating a Mandate for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) by Seamus [...]

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As announced on the DIGLIB list (02005 10 17): “The October 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains six 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 the October issue [...]

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The State Historical Society of Iowa offers Iowa Stereo Photographers: A Biographical Directory. The site includes indexes of stereo photographers by town and county. The information in the directory was chiefly compiled by Paul Juhl and Jo Ann Burgess. Juhl also generously permitted the society to produce and sell copies of over 2,000 Iowa stereographs [...]

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The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), “the international trade association for not-for-profit publishers and those who work with them,” has released a reserach study by the Kaufman-Wills Group titled The Facts About Open Access. You can download the entire study as a PDF file or order a paperback copy. For a counterpoint [...]

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As announced on the ARCHIVES list (02005 10 14): “The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, invites you to visit the web exhibit, The Magic of Antarctic Colours, which features the work of David A. Paige. Paige accompanied Richard E. Byrd on his second expedition to Antarctica, 1933-1935. The pastels, along with [...]

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Update for 02005 10 16: I’m happy to report that the Tiki Wiki site is functioning again. I’m getting 404 errors and database connection errors on all the English language links off the main Tikiwiki Community Portal page. The German site’s working ok. There’s a brief, cryptic reference to this in a SourceForge Bugs report [...]

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A project from Yahoo! Research, Yahoo! Mindset is billed as “intent-driven search”, which means, according to the FAQ page, that “It allows you to sort search results for your query into commercial or non-commercial (informational) results, based on whether you’re shopping or seeking information.” The sorting is done by a slider, the left are shopping-oriented [...]

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An entry on my WordPress Dashboard alerted me to a relatively new phenom in the blogging word: spam blogs or splogs for short. See this Wikipedia entry for splog. Fighting Splog on Google’s Blogspot.com service has links to several other antisplog sites. I have to agree though with the Weblog Tools Collection entry, however, that [...]

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According to a posting on the DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK list (02005 09 30), the Northeast Document Conservation Center in the United is conducting a digital preservation assessment study among cultural heritage institutions (museums, art galleries, and others). A preliminary environmental scan conducted via an e-mail questionnaire revealed the sorry state of digital preservation among these organizations: “92% [...]

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Announced on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02005 10 03): “The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) in the Netherlands has signed a joint operating agreement with the National Diet Library in Japan. The two national libraries will cooperate in several areas, such as digitisation and long-term digital preservation. By means of exchange programmes, employees of both institutions will acquire experience and [...]

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As announced on the ARCHIVES mailing list (02005 10 04) and elsewhere: “The Library of Congress’s Rare Book & Special Collections Division is pleased to announce the release of a new digital collection, ‘Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911: From the collection of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller’. … Between 1897 and 1911 Elizabeth [...]

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Among the publications now online as part of the Getty Research Institute’s Data Standards and Guidelines collection is one I used and mentioned for my three-part series of articles for Searcher magazine on searching for online art images: Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, Strategies by Sara Shatford Layne, Patricia Harpring, Colum Hourihane, [...]

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Yahoo News Search will automatically search blogs. Here’s a screenshot of a search run on October 12, 02005 for “flu wiki” (since that’s been on my brain and blog lately).

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