The Ten Thousand Year Blog

The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), which primarily serves the needs of the museum community, now has a series of RSS feeds.

Tags: Museums and Art Galleries, RSS Feeds--Museums and Curators by David
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The July 02006 issue no. 48 of Ariadne, published in Great Britain, contains a couple of worthwhile articles on digital preservation: “Mind the Gap: Digital Preservation Needs in the UK” by Maggie Jones and Najla Semple “A Foundation for Automatic Digital Preservation” by Miguel Ferreira, Ana Alice Baptista and Jos Carlos Ramalho There are also [...]

Tags: Digital Preservation, Essential Readings, Web Jots by David
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Skeptic Magazine, published by the Sketpics Society, in partnership with Derek and Swoopy, have relaunched its podcast called Skpeticality. The podcast is available for free through the iTunes Store/Library or you can use this URL to subscribe to the Skepticality podcast feed.

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From the announcement on the DIGLIB mailing list (02006 08 21): “The Institutional Repositories SPEC Kit is now available from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). This document presents the results of a thirty-eight-question survey of 87 responding ARL members in early 2006 about their institutional repositories practices and plans. The survey response rate was [...]

Tags: Digital Libraries and Collections, Digital Preservation, Information Knowledgists, Search and Retrieval Technology by David
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SLAINTE (Scottish Libraries across the Internet) through its Digital Library link offers a catalogue of online resources for continual learning by information professionals. If you conduct a Browse search of the catalogue, powered by Dynix’s Horizon Information Portal 3.04, under Subjects and type in Digital preservation, you’ll see various resources in this field.

Tags: Digital Libraries and Collections, Digital Preservation, Distance Education and E-Learning, Information Knowledgists by David
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I saw an ad in the September/October 02006 issue of Canadian Geographic from Canon Canada for its Original Image Verification “software technology that adds authentication data to digital images when they’re taken, making it possible to detect when even one out of millions of pixels has been altered.” But who decides what’s altered the pixel? [...]

Tags: Electronic Records, Visualization Systems by David
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MuseumPods is a podcasting resource for museums. The RSS feed subscription URL is http://museumpods.com/blog_rss.xml

Tags: Museums and Art Galleries, RSS Feeds--Museums and Curators by David
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The August 7, 02006 issue of First Monday consists of selected papers from the WebWise 02006 conference held in February in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Tags: Digital Libraries and Collections, Essential Readings, Information Knowledgists by David
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Developer and archivist Mark A. Matienzo announced the launch of ArchivesBlogs, an aggreblog. ArchivesBlogs uses the open source application Plagger to aggregator RSS and Atom feeds from selected blogs by archivists and archival institutions, including The Ten Thousand Blog. Naturally, ArchivesBlogs also has its own RSS and Atom feeds. The subscription URLs are http://archivesblogs.com/rss.xml and [...]

Tags: Blogging Experience, Digital Preservation, Electronic Records, Information Knowledgists, RSS Feeds--Archives and Archivists by David
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While the Royal Academy of Arts Burlington Gardens building burned on August 29, 02006, one of the exhibits coming to the RAA 6 October to 4 November 2006 under the auspices of the Saatchi Gallery and featured on its Web site, promotes itself through a photo called “Pyromaniac 2 by Josephine Meckseper as published in [...]

Tags: Web Jots by David
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  News of digitization projects for scholarly materials reaches us almost daily.  How will digital resources remain accessible over time? In order to discuss this and other questions, the University at Albany is pleased to present our fall 2006 symposium: “Converting and Preserving the Scholarly Record”, Sponsored by University at Albany , University Libraries, in [...]

Tags: Announcements for Digital Culture Conferences, Seminars, Digital Preservation, Electronic Records by David
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The Canadian Council of Archives’ Archives and You! conference comes to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on September 25-26, 02006. The conference is designed for those who use archives and who wish to learn more from archivists themselves.

Tags: Information Knowledgists by David
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The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., USA, launched its Smithsonian Photography Initiative Web site in early 2006. The project itself was started in 2000 as  a way to unify the 13 million photographic images held by the organization and its satellite cultural institutions. The Web site offers a tool for locating collections, online exhibits centered [...]

Tags: Distance Education and E-Learning, History Findings, Museums and Art Galleries, Searcher Magazine Threads, Virtual Exhibits, Visualization Systems by David
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Google Trends is the latest offering from Google Labs. Search me, search me! This is what you’ll get as of 02006 08 26: “Your terms – david mattison – do not have enough search volume to show graphs. Suggestions:: * Make sure all words are spelled correctly. * Try different keywords. * Try more general [...]

Tags: Cool Tools, Search and Retrieval Technology by David
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The August 02006 issue of RLG DigiNews is out. The two feature articles are “For the Record: Assessing the Impact of Archiving on the Archived” by Edgar Crook of the National Library of Australia, and “Developing Electronic Records Capacity in the Small Collecting Repository: the Documenting Internet2 Project” by Dharma Akmon of JSTOR and Elisabeth [...]

Tags: Digital Libraries and Collections, Digital Preservation, Electronic Records, Essential Readings by David
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The Internet Archive announced its Archive-It 2.0, a new version of its subscription-based Web archiving service. By default, all collections that are harvested are available for full public access. Among the partners are the Library of Congress, the University of Southern California, the University of Toronto, Indiana University and the North Carolina State Archives. Update [...]

Tags: Digital Libraries and Collections, Digital Preservation, Electronic Records, Search and Retrieval Technology by David
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Wikipedia’s profile elevated even higher with two articles by respected publications: New Yorker, “Know It All: Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?” by Stacy Schiff in the July 31, 02006 issue, and Atlantic Monthly, “The Hive” by Marshall Poe from the September 02006 issue. Poe maintains his own wiki called the Memory Archive, which runs under the [...]

Tags: Collaborative Web, Searcher Magazine Threads by David
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Thanks for Gary Price at The Resource Shelf (02006 08 14) for pointing out this fascinating 21-minute Webcast by Marvin Kranz at the Library of Congress called Manuscripts Behind the Scenes. BTW, this is my first post made with the Performancing plugin for Mozilla Firefox.

Tags: History Findings, Information Knowledgists by David
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The Huntington Library has released the first cut of its Early California Population Project database: “information contained in California’s historic mission registers, records that are of unique and vital importance to the study of California, the American Southwest, and colonial America. Within the baptism, marriage, and burial records of each of the California missions sits [...]

Tags: History Findings, Search and Retrieval Technology, Searcher Magazine Threads by David
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I see from my WordPress Dashboard of posts from various other blogs that some of the tech gurus are giving high marks to Microsoft’s beta Windows Live Writer, a WYSIWYG blog editor that works with WordPress. Another editor that’s designed to work with the Mozilla Firefox browser, which I use almost exclusively, is Performancing. I’m [...]

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Update for 02008 07 14: Publications from some of CASPAR’s research is available for downloading. Launched on April 1, 02006 and jointly funded for half of the planned $16 million Euros in mid-July 02006, the European Union’s latest ambitious digital preservation project is named CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval). [...]

Tags: Digital Preservation, Electronic Records, Information Knowledgists, RSS Feeds--Digital Preservation by David
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From the notice posted on the nestor mailing list (02006 08 14): “The Society for Imaging Science and Technology announces the Call for Papers for Archiving 2007 to be held May 21-24, 2007 in Arlington, VA. The deadline for abstract submission is November 1, 2006 and a PDF of the Call for Papers can be [...]

Tags: Announcements for Digital Culture Conferences, Seminars, Digital Libraries and Collections, Digital Preservation, Web Jots by David
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Update for 02006 08 14: It’s just over a year later from my original post on sudoku puzzles, and now Time Magazine has tapped the Number Logic Sudoku Portal as one of the 50 Coolest Websites of 2006 in the Time Wasters category. Thanks to John Jaeger for pointing out Time’s list on the DIG_REF [...]

Tags: Web Jots by David
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Openpedia.org is a blog devoted to “Monitoring media projects that use Wiki methods.” Openpedia’s first post was on October 22, 02005, in which its mission was also proclaimed: “We will monitor media projects that use wiki methods and especially focus the activities of the Wikimedia foundation and the Wikipedia project.” I’m still not sure what [...]

Tags: Blogging Experience, Collaborative Web, Information Knowledgists, Searcher Magazine Threads by David
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The British Imperial War Museum, home to the largest number of posters relating to social conflict in Great Britain, now has over 7,000 Posters of Conflict online, “a joint venture between the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation Design (MIRIAD) at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Art Department at the Imperial War Museum.” The digital [...]

Tags: Digital Libraries and Collections, History Findings, Museums and Art Galleries, Searcher Magazine Threads, Visualization Systems by David
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From the About page of AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository), “a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges – but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is being created by a team of [...]

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Once again Walt Crawford in Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large has examined in much detail blogging work by librarians and other information professionals including yours truly. “Looking at Liblogs: The Great Middle” (vol. 6, no. 10, August 02006) is well worth a read and further study. PDF versions of his zine are also available.

Tags: Blogging Experience, Essential Readings, Information Knowledgists, Searcher Magazine Threads by David
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The Long Eighteenth is a new blog established on August 9, 02006 “as a response to a desire expressed by several members of the listserv C18-L for a weblog community for the discussion of eighteenth-century scholarship and criticism across disciplinary and language boundaries. The Long Eighteenth offers contributor rights to anyone who has a desire [...]

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Ajax 13 is a software company headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, “that introduces web-based applications written using the AJAX based methodology.” Among their products are ajaxSketch, ajaxWrite, eyespot, which is a media mixing and sharing service, and, perhaps the most fascinating of all, ajaxOS, which requires Linspire, but is not yet released as of [...]

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From the front page of the Numbler beta Web site: “Welcome to Numbler, the web based spreadsheet that enables instantaneous collaboration with anyone on your project team. With Numbler multiple users can work with a spreadsheet, view changes in real time, and discuss changes.”

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