U.S. News & World Report published its Best of the Web 2006, a mere 30 Web sites divided between five categories (Shopping, Entertainment, Photo & Video, Health, Travel). The print magazine version appeared in the November 20, 02006 issue. Source: DIG_REF mailing list, 02006 12 19
CBC News reported that “The founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia is developing a community-driven search tool to compete with Google and Yahoo.” I can see it now, a whole new arena for the script kiddies to sink their fangs into. Spam searches anyone? This idea actually sounds a lot like the Swicki community-driven search tool [...]
According to a CBC News story, “Chinese officials say they have a new system to detect impending earthquakes by following the behaviour of snakes, state media reported on Thursday.”
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02006 12 22): Issue no. 14 (July – November 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: Digital Preservation Coalition: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/issue14.html National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/qdigest/dpc-padi-digest-issue14-2006.html “What’s New” is [...]
DINI, the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation e.V., maintains a database of institutional repositories in Germany. The interface is in German or English. The DINI site, however, appears to be entirely in German. Some of its publications, such as the draft of its DINI-Certificate Document and Publication Services 2007 (Adobe Acrobat PDF), are available in English.
I don’t know how I missed the first one, but I’m glad to learn there’s going to be a Second International Conference on Open Repositories in San Antonio, Texas, USA, from January 23 to 26, 02007. The theme of the second conference is “Achieving Interoperability in an Open World.” The 02007 conference combines meetings and [...]
Update for 02007 01 09: For registration information, go to http://www.mser.gov.bc.ca/CIMB/ InterPARES 2 is the second collaborative UBC-led project on International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems. A symposium being held on February 23, 02007 at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, will report on the findings of the second five-year InterPARES [...]
The December issue of RLG DigiNews, volume 10, no. 6, is available. This issue’s theme is on digital asset management systems for museums. Source: IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU, 02006 12 18
Update for 02006 12 18: Version 1.0 of the Archivists’ Toolkit is now available for download. As noted in the announcement and below, “The AT is the first open source archival data management system to provide integrated support for accessioning, description, donor tracking, name and subject authority work, and location management for archival materials. The [...]
According to this C|Net News.com story, “The International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, has put a scholarly edition of the bound volumes of Mozart’s more than 600 works on a Web site. The site allows visitors to find specific symphonies, arias or even single lines of text from some 24,000 pages of music.” Source: DIG_REF [...]
At the TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe) project, you’ll find an invaluable database here under Links and Literature > Recommend readings with “163 literature references to resources on preservation and digitisation of audiovisual materials.” A 2005 survey of European audiovisual archives will be available in 02007. TAPE is coordinated by the European Commission [...]
The Library and Archives Canada’s educational site shouldn’t just be viewed by young people. Anyone wanting to know more about how fakes, forgeries and other kinds of recorded trickery are uncovered should visit and study Detecting the Truth (En quête de la vérité).
The University of Manchester’s CAIRO (Complex Archive Ingest for Repository Objects) is a digital archiving project funded by the United Kingdom’s JISC. According to the front page “Cairo will develop a tool for ingesting complex collections of born-digital materials, with basic descriptive, preservation and relationship metadata, into a preservation repository. The project is based on [...]
From the front page of Harvard University Library’s latest Open Collections Program collection: “Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard’s libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.”
According to a CBC News story on December 8, 02006, the Open XML file and data format used by Microsoft Office has been approved as an international, open standard by Ecma International. This is the first step towards ISO certification. There’s been a great deal of talk about and some movement away from Microsoft Office [...]
Here’s a great way to spend some time examining how a medieval cartographer depicted Great Britain. You can examine the Gough Map through a Geographic Information System (GIS) presentation called Mapping the Realm hosted by Queen’s University, Belfast. The original circa 1340 map is preserved by Oxford University’s famed Bodleian Library Map Room. Neither Internet [...]
The 11th annual Museums and the Web Conference is scheduled for April 11 to 14, 02007 in San Francisco, California, USA. You can view the scintillating array of dazzling presentations on cutting edge Web technology from museums around the world. Not just for museums, the conference should also be of interest to archives and libraries. [...]
Archivists in the future may find their appraisal work a tad easier if this self-erasing paper gets into wide circulation. According to this CBC News story, “This message will self-destruct“, Canadian and US researchers have invented a paper that turns blank after a day’s use or being exposed to heat.
According to the About page of BOPCRIS, the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service, “aims to save researchers wasting valuable research time and effort finding relevant British Official Publications over the period 1688 -1995 by providing a Web-based bibliographic database which enables them, from their own desktops, to: search and browse for relevant documents [...]
Springer has published Julien Masanès book Web Archiving (ISBN-10: 3-540-23338-5; ISBN-13: 978-3-540-23338-1). You can download the table of contents and a sample chapter at www.springer.com/3-540-23338-5. Masanès is director of the European Archives. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02006 12 01
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