I hate cute-sounding names dreamed up by someone and then adopted by a company for whom the name is ill suited. But, hey, Google’s the exception that flouts the rule. Blinkx, according to its About page, “is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. Fed by automatic spiders that crawl the web for [...]
A truly remarkable international effort, demonstrating yet again the collaborative power of the Internet to achieve incomparable results that benefit researchers and the interested public, Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi: Medieval Stained Glass in Great Britain, according to an announcement on the HISTORY-DIGITISATION mailing list (02007 02 22), is “the survey of medieval stained glass, [and] [...]
According to the front page of its site, “The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.” More than 16,000 of its postcard images are available through the Digital Past site, a digital collection consortium of Illinois [...]
Here’s a link to a short post titled “User 2.0: Innovative Library Sites: (Part 1 – Academic Libraries)” by Marie L. Radford on the Library Garden blog. Part 2 will look at public libraries that meet the user innovation tests.
Consultant and independent digital preservation specialist Dr. Henry M. Gladney, who self-publishes a Digital Document Quarterly, has now published his solutions in Preserving Digital Information (Spring Verlag, 02007, ISBN 9783540378860). The table of contents and a sample chapter are available on the publisher’s site. Dr. Gladney also provides a PDF blurb about the book through [...]
Calisphere is brought to you by the University of California Libraries, specifically, the California Digital Library. The site functions as a “free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural [...]
According to the IWAW umbrella Web site for this series of conferences on Web archiving held since 2001, the 7th International Web Archiving Workshop will take place in Canada during the third week of June 02007. The Call for Papers is out and the deadline for submission is May 1, 02007. Source: DIGLIB mailing list, [...]
The History of Archives, Recordkeeping, and Records is a Wikia-hosted MediaWiki-powered site on this topic initiated by “the ‘History of Archives and Recordkeeping’ course offered by Dr. Joe Turrini of Auburn University by the Southeastern Archives Education Collaborative in Fall 2006.”
According to the front page of coComment, which is in beta mode, “coComment keeps track of all the online conversations you’re following in one convenient place, and informs you whenever something is added to a conversation. Think social networking via blog comments and other kinds of online conversational threads. coComment works with a number of [...]
Noted on the WEB4LIB mailing list (02007 02 13) and launched on February 12, 02007, you must read this blog called Designing Better Libraries if you have anything to do with libraries and how users interact with your institution, your staff, your computer system, one another, and all the wheels within wheels (gear meshing or [...]
I’m putting together a paper for the 02007 Association of Canadian Archivists conference in June. My paper’s title is “The Future of Archives in the Future.” While much of my source material will be drawn from my Fictional World of Archives, Museums and Art Galleries site, I’m on the lookout for any other fictional representations [...]
Launched the week of February 12, 02007 as part of Their Past Your Future, 1945-2005, an United Kingdom-wide e-learning site about World War Two, “‘Films from the Home Front‘ brings together a collection of unique moving images illustrating what life was like for ordinary people in Britain during the Second World War, as seen through [...]
According to an announcement on the ARCHIVES & ARCHIVISTS mailing list (02007 02 08), sans URL, the “The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database developed at Texas A&M University reached a significant milestone with the loading of the updated database Dec. 31, 2006. The database provides author, title, and subject access to over 75,000 individual [...]
According to the Yahoo! Pipes Beta site, “Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.” In other words, this is a Web 2.0 search tool for extracting syndicated content and repurposing it using what I’ll call an object-oriented programmatic interface. Here’s a [...]
Ariadne issue no.50 was published on January 30, 02007. Among the articles dealing with digital preservation are “Web Curator Tool” by Philip Beresford who talks about the British Library’s software to harvest Web sites for preservation, and “Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library” by Chris Hilton and Dave Thompson. There are also conference [...]
From its English language page about the Huygens Institute in the Netherlands: “The Huygens Institute is a research institute within the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen; KNAW). It is named after the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) and his son, the scientist Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), alluding to the [...]
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