Foldering is the title of a new blog started on July 13, 02006. The subtitle is “News, Issues and Ideas for Professional Archivists”. The blog, as Jerry Bakewell notes (who also spotted the missing hyperlink), is by Christie Peterson. Who knows, maybe she’ll be the Meredith Farkas of the archival world.
Important Notice, July 30, 02006: Due to a change in my hosting provider’s business relationship with his company’s co-owner, I am in the process of switching to a new Web hosting company. I’ve selected BlueHost.com as it’s gotten good reviews, for what they’re worth, but more importantly because they support WordPress and TikiWiki, and they’re [...]
Update for 02006 07 29: So much for my predicting abilities. The 200,000 comment spam milestone on The Ten Thousand Year Blog came and went yesterday in the space of a few hours. So it actually took just about a month to double in number. There was a definite slowdown after July 4 and then [...]
From the Web page about the Vanishing Media book project, a 10-year anniversary commemoration of the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada = Trust pour la prservation de l’AV du Canada: “This book will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the AV Trust, a national, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of and improvement of access to [...]
The latest stable release of WordPress, 2.0.4., is now available for download. Everyone’s encouraged to upgrade as there are some security fixes. Following the upgrading instructions on the WordPress Codex I installed this version on July 29, 2006. In the 15 minutes or so that it took to do the upgrade, I got bombed by [...]
For those who can and aren’t afraid to modify their WordPress files, AjaxWp is “a lightweight JavaScript enhancement that adds AJAX functionality to WordPress blogs speeding up load times, increasing the responsiveness of the user interface and giving the blog an overall cooler look. Out of the box AjaxWp requires minimal configuration and no additional [...]
The July/August 02006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available. Featured are seven reports from the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2006).
A while back there was a thread on WEB4LIB about the next big thing in information delivery services. Maybe this is old news, but I happen to believe that e-learning is the next big thing for libraries and others involved in information delivery services. E-learning leverages what librarians and other information professonals already know and [...]
From the main page of the prototype TILE (The Inclusive Learning Exchange) site at the University of Toronto’s Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (visited 02006 07 24): “The Inclusive Learning Exchange is a revolutionary learning object repository service that responds to the individual needs of the learner. TILE provides the authoring tools, repository architecture, and preference [...]
From the announcement posted on various mailing lists (02006 07 18): “Rare Books and Special Collections, and University Archives, at UBC Library are pleased to announce the launch of a newly digitized collection: “Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era”, at http://angel.library.ubc.ca/tokugawa/. UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections holds one of the world’s largest collections [...]
The United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal government funding agency for many digitization projects, now has a RSS 2.0 feed that incorporates the following content: press releases grant program guidelines publications Project Profiles our Primary Source newsletter The RSS subscription URL is http://www.imls.gov/rss.xml
EffectiveBrand is the same of a free, Web-based browser toolbar builder created by Platforma Online, both of which launched in January 2005. Here’s an example from the Lansing Public Library (Illinois) of their EffectiveBrand toolbar. A search for “library” in the EffectiveBrand Gallery page revealed 80 toolbars in total. I wrote about browser toolbars in [...]
The United States National Endowment for the Humanities has launched a Digital Humanities Intiative. The goal of this new initiative is to support “projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology.”
Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication is the title of a halfway conference organized by the Text Creation Partnership of the University of Michigan and Oxford University. The conference is being held September 14 to 17, 02006 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02006 07 18): “Issue no. 13 (March – June 2006) 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/issue132006.html Digital Preservation Coalition: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/ ‘What’s New’ is [...]
William D. Layman is the author of the book River of Memory, The Everlasting Columbia (University of Washington Press and UBC Press, 2006). The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center is hosting an exhibit of the same name based on the book. The exhibit will also travel to various venues, including Touchstones Nelson: Museum of [...]
Found this one through a Technorati link to one of my posts: “Up and running since October 2005, Mode is dedicated to exploring museums, design and everything in between. The space is run by Lisa Fletcher, currently working as a consultant at the Western Australian Medical Museum and City Farm Perth. Mode welcomes contributors! Share [...]
Back in June 2003 Searcher magazine published my article “Pax Web Pacts: International Full-Text Treaty Resources”. Here’s a followup Web site, Diplomacy Monitor, created and maintained by St. Thomas University School of Law, highlighted by Gary Price in his ResourceShelf and brought to the attention of the DIG_REF mailing list (02006 07 17).
Presentations from the joint JISC/CNI meeting, Envisioning future challenges in networked information, held July 6 and 7, 02006, are now available. Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 02006 07 13
As announced on the Our Roots – Nos Racines, Canada’s Local Histories Online Web site, one of the two best digital library general collections in Canada (the other being Early Canadiana Online): “In May 2006, Our Roots launched its new web site, designed to be more accessible for all users. The Our Roots project is [...]
Quoting from the author-publisher’s e-mail announcement: “The Digital Document Quarterly newsletter volume 5 number 2 is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_5_2.htm In its Digital Preservation section it contains short summaries and links to recent assessment reports of more than usual interest. This continues with questions about the U.S. NDIIPP at mid-point and then brief introductions to archiving [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02006 07 10: “Following the highly successful inaugural series of C21st Curation public lectures last year, SLAIS organised a second series of public lectures by eight leading speakers, open to students, professionals and general public during April and May 2006. Podcasts and presentations from the series are now available online [...]
From the OCLC page on its upcoming beta release of WorldCat.org for WorldCat libraries to be unveiled in August 02006: “To be released August 2006 in beta form, WorldCat.org continues OCLC’s efforts?begun with the Open WorldCat program?to make library resources more visible to Web users, and to increase awareness of libraries as a primary source [...]
From the About page: “The Moving History web site is a research guide to the United Kingdom?s twelve public sector film archives and provides a showcase for their collections. Moving History’s role is to show, describe and provide links to these key collections located around the UK. The Moving History guide aims to encourage research [...]
The July/August 02006 issue of Searcher magazine contains my article, “Music to Soothe the Savage Searcher: Classical Music Databases and Web Resources.” It’s the lead cover story. You can read it online or download it at no charge courtesy of the publisher. Update for 02006 07 02: Gary Price’s ResourceShelf blog contains a nice writeup [...]
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