Home to the Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection, the University of North Texas Music Library has expanded its digitized offerings to create a Virtual Rare Book Room, chiefly 18th century French opera. You can browse or search the site. Source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog, 02006 05 31
Jill Hurst-Wahl posted an entry on her blog Digitization 101 about a presentation at Computers in Libraries on the ECHO DEPository research and development project, a partnership of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and OCLC. The project is funded through the Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The ECHO DEPosity [...]
Here’s the the Digital Collection Development Policy by the Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Collection Sector.
From the media release by the Library of Congress (02006 05 26): “The Library of Congress has just launched a Web site devoted to information about its program to capture and preserve historically important Web sites so that they can be accessed by future generations of users. The site is available at www.loc.gov/webcapture. The Library [...]
According to an announcement posted on the DIGLIB mailing list (May 18, 02006), the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, in partnership with Ghent University Library, have released version 1.0 of their aDORe DIDLTools. The announcement states that “The aDORe DIDLTools is a Java toolkit for the construction, validation, serialization and de-serialization of the MPEG-21 [...]
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced on May 16, 02006 that its CBC Digital Archives Web site was awarded a significant international award: “CBC’s digital archives website has won the Award for Best Use of Footage in New Media at the Focal International Awards ceremony in London. The Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries (FOCAL), a non-profit [...]
From the blurb on the beta Google Web Toolkit site: “Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend [...]
From the DIGLIB posting (02006 05 12): The “Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the launch of Made in Canada: Patents of Invention and the Story of Canadian Innovation, a project funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage through its Canadian Culture Online initiative and in partnership with the Canadian Intellectual Property [...]
The Library and Archives Canada has unveiled the Canada Census of 1851 (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). As with other census databases it’s produced, this one is only searchable by geographic location. Some third-party nominal indexes exist for this census and it’s possible a volunteer project will fully index and directly [...]
The May 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available.
02006 marks the 10th anniversary of the Webby Awards.
Here’s a site called PortableApps.com to get you started on finding and installing software applications on USB portable drives, both the flash/RAM and micro-hard drive versions.
Do you dream in 3D? Do you dream about a free 3D program? You can add to your list of free 3D programs something called SketchUp from Google. The main purpose of this program appears to be for creating 3D models that you can integrate with Google Earth. There’s also a commercial version of SketchUp [...]
From the announcement on DIG_REF and other mailing lists (02006 05 01): “The Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Division is pleased to announce that all the negatives in the George Grantham Bain news photograph collection (nearly 40,000 glass negatives in all) have now been digitized and are available for searching in the Prints and [...]
The May 02006 issue of Searcher magazine features my article on the digital humanities revolution, a radical recomputation of humanistic pedagogy engendered by the Silicon Age.
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