The Digiwik: The Digitization Wiki has launched. According to an announcement on the WEB4LIB mailing list (02005 11 30), “Digiwik is designed to be a repository of digitization information for use by individuals, museums, libraries, researchers, and any other entities with digitization needs.” Though he doesn’t reveal his identity on the DigiWiki, Michael Yunkin at [...]
The Government of British Columbia Web portal now offers a wide selection of RSS feeds, along with information on how to access them. Other Canadian provincial and territorial government sites that offer RSS feeds are Alberta, the Northwest Territories’ Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority Event Calendar, Nova Scotia, and Ontario.
From the announcement I received by e-mail as one of the formerly active SETI@home and Climate Prediction computing time volunteers: “SETI@home has completed its transition to BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). BOINC, developed at U.C. Berkeley, is a framework for volunteer computing projects like SETI@home. Switching your computer to the new “SETI@home/BOINC” is [...]
From the JORUM Overview page: “The JORUM repository will offer a searchable online library of learning and teaching resources for use by academic and support staff in the UK. The system contains information about resources, i.e. “metadata”, and in most cases the resources themselves. The resource metadata allows users to search or browse for resources [...]
The State Library of North Carolina is hosting Digital Preservation in State Government: Best Practices Exchange 2006 on March 27 and 28, 02006 at the Hilton Wilmington Riverside, in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. Visit the Web site for registration details. Source: ARCHIVES mailing list, 02005 11 22
The folks at PubSub.com have been working on a new enhancement as a plugin for WordPress blogs called Structured Blogging. According to the About page “What is structured blogging?”: “On another level, it’s a bit more complicated – what we want to do is create structure (in the form of XML) around each of these [...]
Quoting from the announcement on the eMediaWire (02005 11 21), “SciPolicy — The Journal of Science and Health Policy — announced today that, as a public service, all of its articles are now free and open access on-line. The move is prompted by a recent ten-fold increase in demands on its already busy website (http://scipolicy.net) [...]
Raincoast Books in Vancouver, BC, Canada, launched its first literary podcast series on November 16, 02005. You can access these MP3 files through iTunes (search for “raincoast”), from a Feedburner RSS feed, or from the Raincoast Books blog.
Google Base is a new, free content-hosting and indexing service available from the universe’s search engine that launched in beta on November 17, 02005.
No doubt young and old Turks, and those from Turkey, will object to this characterization, and it’s unfortunate choice of name in my opinion, but Amazon.com introduced as part of its Web Services package for promoters an “artificial artificial intelligence” service called the Amazon Mechanical Turk. The name refers to an 18th century mechanical chess [...]
The fifth issue of Webology (ISSN 1735-188X), being volume 2, no. 3 (October 2005), is out.
From the announcement as posted on the DIGLIB mailing list (02005 11 19): “TUNIS – A new Web initiative launched today at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), will connect anyone with Internet access and the desire to learn to a world of free, high-quality open educational materials. The Development Gateway Foundation’s “Open [...]
If you don’t know what a cylinder recording is, check out the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project site at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections. The day I visited the highlighted recording was a performance released in 1914 by Henry Burr (aka Irving Gillette) of Canada’s national anthem “O Canada”. [...]
The National Center for Science Education has a nice blog-based site with legal documents on the Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District case in Pennsylvania that pitted parents against the school board, the plaintiff parents objecting to the introduction of religion-based instruction into the science curriculum a la intelligent design as an alternate [...]
The European Register of Microform Masters (EROMM) published its Standards for surrogates that are to be recorded in the EROMM database. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02005 11 16
The November 02005 issue of D-Lib Magazine is online. One of the feature articles is “Requirements for Digital Preservation Systems: A Bottom-Up Approach” by David S. H. Rosenthal, Thomas Robertson, Tom Lipkis, Vicky Reich, and Seth Morabito, of Stanford University Libraries.
According to its About page, “Woophy stands for WOrld Of PHotographY, a website founded by a Dutch collective of photo aficionados and internet designers who believe navigation on internet can be more visual, logical and associative. The goal of Woophy’s founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised [...]
Update for 02005 11 14: One of the co-editors of the Flu Wiki wrote a long essay “In defense of The Flu Wiki: reply to Mattison” in a group blog on public health issues in the United States called Effect Measure. According to an explanatory sidebar, “The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health [...]
Issue no. 45 (October 2005) of Ariadne is available on its UKOLN, University of Bath, UK, site. Feature articles centre around institutional repositories, with the lead article on the meaning of “Web 2.0″ for library services.
The Times-Colonist newspaper published an overview of podcasting on Vancouver Island on November 8, 02005 (“Podquake Alert” by Mike Devlin, p. D5). Here are the sites they described in a sidebar, “An Island Podcast Primer”: Island Podcasting: A podcast show about life on Vancouver Island: Exploring culture, natural history and events on the Island by [...]
Think this is the title of a bad sci-fi movie or TV series? The Intellagon: Beyond the Edge of Tomorrow “is centered on aggregating and publicizing current works that promote the future. The efforts of individual practitioners, commercial and non-profit ventures, and offerers of innovation prizes that all dare to engage in the shaping of [...]
Here’s a story about a new collaborative Web service called Newsvine where readers can comment on any of the news stories. Sounds like the noise to signal ratio will become quite high in short order. Maybe that’s a good thing, maybe not. Time will tell. Source: Weblog Tools Collection, “Get Ready For Newsvine?“, 02005 11 [...]
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (Association des biblioth?ques de recherche du Canada) institutional repository search service or metadata harvester for short is hosted by Simon Fraser University Library.
According to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council’s MLA News Snippets for November 02005: MLA Digital Futures team announce details of eEurope digitisation week “Monday 14th November- Thursday 17th November will see a week of events promoting the use of digital collections in museums, libraries and archives across Europe. Kicking off the week in Brussels [...]
I was asked by Brian P. Collins, a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, to feature the EASE History online learning environment on this blog. I’m happy to do so because (A) it has to do with history, (B) it has to do with online learning, and (C) it’s another example of how the Web [...]
According to its front page, “Skepchicks, Intl. is an organization dedicated to promoting skepticism and critical thinking among women around the world.”
The Internet Society, the one organization that can be said to run the Internet, has a new IETF Journal available for free downloading or reading online. Be the first on your router to find out where the Internet’s headed.
The Consortium of European Research Libraries “formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. The organisation?s primary objective is to record all books printed in Europe during the hand-press period, i.e. before c.1830, in a machine-readable database.” (About CERL page) This database [...]
ELPUB 2006: Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture, 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 14 to 16 June 02006, Bansko (Bulgaria). One of the tracks is on digital preservation and access. The call for papers deadline is November 21, 02005.
Update for 02005 11 05: It’s been noted on various mailing lists and blogs that the first installment of public domain books can now be searched through Google Print. For the most relevant results, use the Advanced Print Search and try to include a keyword in any one or more of the Title, Author, Publisher, [...]
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