The next Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets conference on digital preservation, presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) and co-sponsored by the OCLC Western Service Center, is scheduled for November 28 and 29, 02007 in Seattle, Washington, USA. The conference fee has been set at $350. Watch NEDCC’s Web site for full [...]
I’m not quite sure what the purpose or intent is behind Forbes.com’s Corporate Org Chart Wiki, but if you like taking virutal action against corporate hegemony and injustices, you can have some serious fun moving around the boards of directors and senior executives of all the publicly traded companies in the United States.
Your Archives, powered by MediaWiki, this site is for users (and any other interested party) of the British National Archives and is hosted by that institution. The intent is to allow users to inform their colleagues and National Archives staff about information in the records that might not necessarily be captured through the National Archives’ [...]
What’s next, a reality TV show? Hey, you read it here first. DigitalPreservationEurope launched the first international Digital Preservation Challenge on May 23, 02007. According to the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02007 05 25), “The challenge invites participants to overcome the barriers hindering access to six digital objects. Each object is accompanied by a highly abstracted [...]
Quoting from the ICHORA-3 front page: “The Third International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 3) will be held in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27-29, 02007, hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society. The theme of the conference will be the history of personal records and personal recordkeeping practices. This theme is intended [...]
The City of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, has published a set of self-guided heritage walking maps that you can also download from its Web site. The four maps are described as: Fools Rush In: The clinking of glasses and the smell of canvas and horses – these were the rollicking times of the Gold Rush [...]
Issue 51 of Ariadne is here. Lots of good reading on topics such as collaborative storytelling (the COINE Project in the United Kingdom), e-research in Australia (the ARROW, DART and ARCHER projects), virtual research (the EVIE project at the University of Leeds, England), teaching library skills with blogs, a review of the Ask search engine, [...]
The May/June 02007 issue of D-Lib Magazine is out. Another great lineup of articles, including one on the next generation of archival finding aids.
Still in beta after its introduction in late February 02007 and a free, public download, Corel WordPerfect Lighning, according to the download page on the Corel site, provides “Notes tool for word processing, note taking, and copying text and images from email and the Web Viewer to open PDFs, WordPerfect® and Microsoft® Word files Navigator [...]
Update for 02006 06 22: WordPress 2.2.1 is now ready for downloading with some bug fixes. I’m glad I waited before installing 2.2. Original post for 02006 05 16: Version 2.2 of WordPress, the best open source blogging platform around, is available for download. I plan on updating the backend of my site later in [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02007 05 14): “The Florida Center for Library Automation is pleased to announce that the DAITSS preservation repository application is now available under the GPL license. DAITSS was developed by FCLA for use in the Florida Digital Archive, a preservation repository for the libraries of the public universities of Florida [...]
No, not Rescue Public Morals, but Rescue Public Murals, a project of Heritage Preservation to “bring public attention to U.S. murals, document their unique artistic and historic contributions, and secure the expertise and support to save them.” Rescue Public Murals was launched in December 2006 and includes a page of Resources documenting murals and research [...]
Update for 02007 05 10: The conference papers are online courtesy of nestor, Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources. Original post, 02007 01 15: With Germany assuming the presidency of the Council of the European Union, a conference, “The Challenge: Long-term Preservation. Strategies and Practice of European Partnerships“, will take place on [...]
The Encyclopedia of Life is an ambitious, decade-long project to make information publicly and freely available on all 1.8 million species on Earth. The first “actual, authenticated species pages,” quoting the FAQ, are expected to be ready by mid-2008. The project, according to the FAQ, is “currently being headed by a steering committee of senior [...]
Hosted at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, the Métis National Countil Historical Online Database, according to the About page, “contains textual information extracted from archival documents relevant to the historical Métis Nation. The website also contains high-resolution digital photography and scans of many of the original documents represented in the database. The MNC Historical [...]
“Digital Collections and Resources at the University of Maryland Libraries is pleased to announce the new edition of ‘Best Practices for Digital Collections at UM Libraries’ (http://www.lib.umd.edu/dcr/publications.html). In addition to covering topics such as project lifecycle management and technical specifications for still images and text, this new edition covers audio and moving image formats, Web [...]
The Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections at the University of Michigan documents “American military intervention at Archangel, Russia, at the end of World War I.”
From the announcement on the ARCHIVES mailing list (02007 05 01): “The Council of State Archivists is pleased to announce that it has issued a “Statement on Digital Access Partnerships.” A full copy of the statement is available at http://www.statearchivists.org/issues/ocp/ The statement was developed by the CoSA Task Force on Online Content Providers (OCP) and [...]
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