From the announcement on various mailing lists (02006 10 31): “… “Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions,” published today, details the results of an intensive study of digital image use by more than 400 faculty at 33 liberal arts colleges and universities in the Northeast. Commissioned by Wesleyan University [...]
From the announcement on the WEB4LIB mailing list (02006 10 31): “The National Library of New Zealand and The British Library are pleased to announce the release of the Web Curator Tool as an open-source project. The tool, and its manuals, FAQs, mailing lists, source code, developer documentation, and other information, including a presentation, are [...]
The WordPress development team announced the release of WordPress 2.0.5 (Ronan). Since it includes security fixes, everyone’s encouraged to upgrade. Upgraded successfully (I think) on Sunday, October 29, 02006. It looks like the Akismet plugin kicked in properly this time and is successfully blocking comment spam that I shouldn’t be seeing and tagging as spam. [...]
The Ms. Dewey search site is a very funny and sophisticated achievement in search engine technology. You’ll be even more surprised that Microsoft sponsored the site. More info on Ms. Dewey at the LibraryThing’s Thing-ology Blog and Forbes.com. Sources: Thanks to Bernie Sloan for pointing this one out on DIG_REF, 02006 10 26
The Library and Archives Canada’s Moving Here, Staying Here: The Canadian Immigrant Experience is both a virtual exhibit and a research resource that brings together various databases and places them in their historical context. The development of this Web site also led to the digitization of the ships’ passenger lists (1865-1922) held by the Library [...]
The Library of Congress has introduced a new search interface, a federated search capability that lets you “search the largest sections of the Library’s site from one search box.” You can search simultaneously or by selection the American Memory digital collections, the Library of Congress Online Catalog, the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, and the [...]
Anyone hoping to understand the motives and goals of Islamic extremists, the terrorists calling for Jihad (holy war) against the West, should definitely start looking through the RAND Corporation’s Voices of Jihad Database: “This online database is a compilation of speeches, interviews, statements, and publications of jihadist leaders, foot soldiers, and sympathizers. Nearly all content [...]
The Library and Archives Canada won its New York criminal court case on October 24, 02006 against a “Texas college professor guilty on two misdemeanor counts of criminal possession of stolen property from the Library and Archives Canada Glenn Gould collection.” Maybe we will now see this as an episode on Law and Order. You’ll [...]
From the announcement on HISTORY-DIGITISATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02006 10 23): ” ‘Digital Deluge: History in the 21st Century’ 17 Nov, IHR, London. Organised by the AHC-UK and AHDS History this conference explores the challenges facing historians from the increasing volume of electronic and digital sources. These sources can often be incomplete, difficult to access and to preserve, [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02006 10 24): “DCC and LUCAS Joint Workshop, November 30th-December 1st, 2006, The Foresight Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/archives-2006 The Digital Curation Centre and Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies (LUCAS) are pleased to announce that they will be delivering a two-day workshop to explore pre and post-ingest activity for digital archival collections. [...]
Presentations and podcasts from the Access 2006 conference, “Capitalizing on Access”, held in Ottawa, Ontario, the national capital of Canada, are available. Several of the presentation podcasts are close to or over an hour in length.
Update for 02006 10 24: The PLANETS team is seeking input to assist them in building the PLANETS Testbed. You can help by reviewing and answering the PLANETS Testbed Questionnaire. Original post from 02006 09 26: European Union orbits digital preservation research and technology issues with PLANETS From the “About PLANETS Digital media have become [...]
From the About page on the Yahoo Time Capsule, a 30-day experiment in digital preservation kind of like those populist photography books A Day in the Life of ….: “Like everything Yahoo! does, it’s about you – our amazing users. We think there’s no one better suited to teach future generations what the world was [...]
Update for 02006 10 20: As announced on various mailing lists, “Proceedings of the 6th International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW06) are now available to download: http://www.iwaw.net/06/PDF/iwaw06-proceedings.pdf Other presentations made during the workshop (particularly on tools development) are also available here: http://www.iwaw.net/06/ ….” Original post, 02006 08 28: Held in conjunction with the 10th European Conference [...]
The first issue of Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval is devoted to the topic of “Music Retrieval: A Tutorial and Review” by Nicola Orio. Published by Now Publishers, this journal is edited by Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy, and Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University. The hardcopy single issue is unrealistically priced at [...]
A fork in the Wikipedia road appeared on October 11, 02006 when Larry Sanger, cofounder of Wikipedia, announced that the “Citizendium community” was accepting applications for authors, editors and constables. In its ultimate form, anyone would be eligible to contribute, but editors and constables, who would have to prove their bona fides, would watch over [...]
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) issued its Call for Proposals on October 17, 02006 for projects from public, non-profit Canadian museums (and some other institutional categories) that would see the creation of learning objects under its Agora Research Initiative as part of the Virtual Museum of Canada. I’m very pleased about this development because [...]
The British evolutionary biologist’s foundation describes itself as “an oasis of clear thinking.” Well known as likely the world’s most outspoken and articulate atheist, his Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is partly about his work and partly about the need for a new worldview that casts aside the superstition of religion and the [...]
The October 02006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is available for your reading pleasure. In addition to the feature articles, there are a series of conference reports. The most interesting article to me is the lead one on the Digital Library Federation’s Aquifer project.
For those who care about the next release of Microsoft Windows known as Windows Vista, you can evaluate your PC’s condition to use the operating system as well as download Windows Vista Release Candidate 1.
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) made this announcement about its Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project on various mailing lists (02006 10 13): “The Open Archives Initiative (OAI), with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, announces a new effort as part of its mission to develop and promote interoperability standards that aim [...]
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries has made a free online video course available called Why Wiki?.
From the front page of the British-led Memories for Life project where science and digital memory meet: “Memories for Life is a unique project, funded by the EPSRC, bringing together a diverse range of academics in a bid to understand how memory works and to develop the technologies to enhance it. We are our memories. [...]
From the announcement to several mailing lists: “We [Meredith Farkas et al] are pleased to present Five Weeks to a Social Library (http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/), the first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and [...]
Quoting from the author/publisher’s e-mail announcement: “The Digital Document Quarterly newsletter volume 5 number 3 is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_5_3.htm. In its Digital Preservation section it contains short summaries and the abstract of a D-Lib Magazine submission whose title is Digital Preservation in a National Context: Questions and Views of an NDIIPP Outsider. DDQ 5(2) continues [...]
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia issued a call for papers for its special issue Web archiving. The October 30, 02006 deadline for submission is fast approaching. Thanks for prompting me to mention this Tracy.
Due to its merger with OCLC, RLG’s RedLightGreen service, which I wrote about in the April 02005 issue of Searcher magazine, comparing and contrasting it with OCLC’s Open WorldCat, is coming to an end on November 5, 02006. Registered users of RedLightGreen are encouraged to download or print any citations they’ve saved.
Gary Price via his ResourceShelf, in announcing the European Archive Foundation’s digital library collection on September 30, 02006, compiled “A Selected List of Web Page Preservation and Archiving Projects“. You’ll also find some of these same projects in my blog and in my British Columbia Digital Library.
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