From the About page of Open J-Gate (Informatics India Ltd.): “Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also [...]
The University of Houston Libraries hosts the Transforming Scholarly Communication Web site and blog of the same name, both excellent clearinghouses on the issue of open access to scholarly output. The blog includes an Atom feed and also covers digital libraries and digital preservation.
AskJeeves.coom kicked out the butler and rebranded itself as Ask.com. Among the changes, according to the ResourceShelf’s Gary Price, who’s now Director of Online Information Resources for IAC Search and Media, the company that owns the search engine, are “the input of the library and education communities to help improve the service.” (quoted from his [...]
The University of Victoria, BC, Canada, plays host again to the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute between June 19 and 23, 02006. Here’s the blurb in case this one’s new to you: “The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new computing technologies influencing [...]
From the 02006 International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 02006) Web site: “The 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, ISMIR 2006, will be held at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada, from Sunday October 8th to Thursday October 12th, 2006. The annual ISMIR Conference is the first established international forum for those [...]
The STARGATE (Static Repository Gateway and Toolkit) Project, based at the at the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Digital Library Research, is creating services and tools to help small publishers participate in “OAI-based disclosure, discovery and alerting services within the JISC Information Environment and beyond. The project’s primary aim is to lower the technical barriers [...]
Issue 10 of the DigiCULT.Info Newsletter (October 02005) contains an article on the BIRTH Television Archive, a multilingual access tool started in 2003 by various European and British TV broadcasting archives. Some digitized content is also available, along with extra services geared to researchers and producers.
On February 24, 02006, the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announced its partnership with Google to digitize historic films as part of a pilot project for free online viewing. Google established a special search URL for this films through Google Video, and the films are also available on the NARA site. According [...]
According to this New Media Consortium’s page: “The 2006 Horizon Report [Adobe Acrobat PDF] is now available. The 2006 edition is a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program. The 2006 Horizon Report, just as has been the case with previous editions of the report, highlights six [...]
The Library and Archives Canada has released the first batch of harvested Election 02006 Web sites, including blogs, that electronically document aspects of the federal election campaign leading up to election day on January 23, 02006. The page introducing this collection notes that “In many cases, sites have been captured multiple times in order to [...]
The February 02006 issue of RLG DigiNews is out. There’s an interview with Victoria Reich, Director, LOCKSS Program, and the feature article looks at the results of the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) “online survey in April/May 2005 on digital collection policies and practices. This survey was the first component of a project to develop [...]
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is making available on a trial basis podcasts of Question Period and selected other recorded content. Here’s the RSS podcast feed URL.
No, that’s not the name of a student film on the horrors and redemptive value of creating a thesis or dissertation, Theses Alive! is the name of a Web site at Edinburgh University Library promoting a plug-in for the DSpace institutional repository software called Tapir (Theses Alive Plug-in for Institutional Repositories), which was developed at [...]
From the front page blurb of Open Repository: “Open Repository is a service from BioMed Central to build, launch, host and maintain institutional repositories for organisations. Built upon the latest DSpace repository software the service has been designed to be flexible and cost-effective. BioMed Central’s economy of scale makes it possible for organisations that could [...]
Meant to blog this conference notice earlier: Vanishing Bits & Bytes: Preserving Information for the Future, May 8, 02006, Houston, Texas, USA. The conference is sponsored by the Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center; University of Houston Libraries; and Fondren Library, Rice University.
I was reminded of Edward Tufte today while visiting the Sparkline PHP Graphing Library Web site. Sparklines, described as “intense, simple, word-sized graphics”, were invented by Tufte, a retired Yale University professor best known for his groundbreaking work in the visualization of quantitative (numeric) information. Sparklines forms a chapter in his latest book, Beautiful Evidence [...]
The United Kingdom’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) formally announced the launch of its Digital Repository Wiki (DigiRepWiki) on February 9, 02006.
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Accoding to its About page, the “purpose of AACE is accomplished through the encouragement of scholarly inquiry related to information technology in education and the dissemination of research results and their applications through: * Publications * Conferences * [...]
“Transcriptions is a NEH-funded curricular development and research initiative started in 1998 by the English Dept. at UC Santa Barbara to focus on literary study and information society. The goal of is to demonstrate a paradigm?at once theoretical, instructional, and technical?for integrating new information media and technology within the core work of a traditional humanities [...]
Information Aesthetics is a blog devoted to tracking and commenting on “creative information visualization” efforts. The site’s the work of Professor Andrew Vande Moere at the University of Sydney, Australia.
A remarkable project started by a group of students at Washington State University, Paint.NET is a free image and photo editor for Windows (2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003 + the .NET framework). From what I could tell from the features page and the screenshots and without as yet having downloaded and tested the application, [...]
Sofia 2006: Globalization, Digitization, Access and Preservation of Cultural Heritage, will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, November 8 to 10, 02006. According to the DIGLIB mailing list announcement (02006 02 17), “Sofia 2006 is part of an international conference series hosted by the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, Kansas and the [...]
The February 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.
I am quoting this media release from the United Kingdom’s Digital Preservation Coalition in full due to its importance. Similar reports have appeared in the United States. I believe the public and private archives in Canada have yet to conduct a similar digital preservation assessment. Even the Canadian Conservation Institute in its award-winning Preserving My [...]
TPM Online, the electronic presence on the Internet wall, is the Web version of The Philosophers’ Magazine, edited by Dr Jeremy Stangroom in the United Kingdom. The magazine started publishing in 1997. TPM Online contains some novel, interactive logic and philosophical games such as Battleground God, Do-It-Yourself Deity, and Shakespeare vs. Britney Spears. Oh yeah. [...]
Through Our Parents’ Eyes: History & Culture of Southern Arizona describes Southern Arizona’s history and culture through images, text, audio and audio. This is a fascinating and exemplary site that builds on various digitization projects, incorporating both primary research materials with multimedia interpretive essays and some educational activities and lesson plans. “Through Our Parents’ Eyes” [...]
According to the front page of the Digital Preservation Training Programme: “The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is a project funded by JISC under its Digital Preservation and Asset Management programme, or JISC 4/04 as it is more commonly known. The project is led by ULCC, working with its partners the Digital Preservation Coalition and [...]
The 10th anniversary online issue of the British digital culture magazine for information professionals Ariadne no. 46 (Feburary 02006) includes this article by Chris Rusbridge “Excuse Me ? Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?”.
From the Project Overview page of Sofia: “The Sofia initiative was launched by Foothill-De Anza Community College District [California] in March of 2004. The goal of Sofia is to publish community college-level course content and make it freely accessible on the web to support teaching and learning.” Courses available as of February 02006 include Creative [...]
Having read most of the Easy Rawlins, Socrates Fortlow and Fearless Jones novels by Black American writer Walter Mosley, I was intrigued by his latest foray into science fiction, The Wave (2006). He’d published two other sci-fi novels, neither of which I’ve read. I was pleasantly surprised and captivated by this short novel which seemed [...]
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