Created by Manuel Lima, Visual Complexity “intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project’s main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope [...]
It must have been like a scene out of that British TV comedy “Yes, Minister”. In the House of Common’s Consitutional Affairs Committee Report, Freedom of Information ? One Year On, on the impact of Great Britain’s Freedom of Information Act was oral testimony by Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Under Secretary of State, Department for [...]
From the announcement on the DIGLIB mailing list (02006 06 29): OAIS Overview The Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) was developed for use in facilitating a broad, discipline independent, consensus on the requirements for an archive or repository to provide permanent, or indefinite long-term, preservation of digital information. It was also [...]
This looks kind of fun: “TheWeblogProject is the first open source, FREE, grassroots movie to promote and evangelize bloggers, the blogosphere, and their potential.” Source: What Is the Weblog Project?, 02006 06 28, via a link on Robin Good, What Communication Experts Need To Know, “Intranet 2.0: Blog Networks, Social Bookmarking, Mash-Ups And Wikis“, 02006 [...]
Update for 02006 06 27: Collect Britain has digitized the entire run of the Penny Illustrated Paper which was published between 1861 and 1913. The content is full-text searchable. This is the first and only newspaper so far digitized by this most excellent set of digital collections from the British Library. Source: Peter Scott’s Library [...]
LibraryThing.com‘s been getting some good press lately. It’s been described as “social bookmarking for bookworms”. It also comes with a reasonable (for now) price tag: $10 a month or $25 for life. If you’re a serious book lover and want to catalog your collection for others to see or just yourself, as well as connect [...]
Noted in the June 02006 issue of D-Lib Magazine: “The Personal Repositories Online Wiki Environment project (PROWE) is a JISC-funded Digital Repositories project (http://www.jisc.ac.uk). It focuses on the potential of repositories at the informal and individual levels. These repositories use software tools such as wikis and blogs which encourage the open exchange of ideas, and [...]
The June 02006 of D-Lib Magazine is now available. The most interesting of the three feature articles to me is “Distributed Preservation in a National Context: NDIIPP at Mid-point” by Abby Smith.
William J. Turkel, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, compiled an annotated list of digital history blogs. I’m delighted to be included. Next up, Digital History: The Movie?
Launced on June 13, 02006, the Internet Detective from Great Britain’s Intute, soon to be formerly the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), is one of many “free Internet tutorial”s designed to help students and lifelong learners “to discern the good, the bad and the ugly” when researching online. The other tutorials are part of the RDN’s [...]
From the IMAGELIB mailing list announcement (02006 06 20): “The June 2006 issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=20952 Volume 10, Number 3 includes: Feature Article 1 Foundations for a Successful Digital Preservation Program: Discussions from Digital Preservation in State Government: Best Practices Exchange 2006 by Christy E. Allen Feature Article 2 UBdigit: [...]
As announced on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02006 06 12): “The International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2006) will be held October 8-10, 2006 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY U.S.A. The theme of this year’s iPRES is Words to Deeds: Collaboration in the Realm of Digital Preservation. Following on the successful iPRES 2005 held September [...]
Followed a link on Technorati to Technorati Kitchen which led me to the beta Microformats Search and the Microformats.org Web site. Good stuff!
From the home page, “The Sudan Open Archive is part of a regional knowledge network currently being developed by the Rift Valley Institute, with international and local partners. The Network will provide an e-mail service with critical summaries and full-text versions of key reports on Sudan as they become available.” (hyperlinks added) According to the [...]
From the announcement on the DIGLIB mailing list (02006 06 08): “Recently published in the IFLA Publication Series by KG Saur in M?nchen: Ingeborg Verheul, Networking for Digital Preservation. Current Practice in 15 National Libraries. This publication can be ordered at Saur Verlag: http://www.saur.de/index.cfm?lang=EN&id=0000011991 The PDF-version is now available at the ICABS website: http://www.ifla.org/V/pr/saur119.htm Background [...]
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