The Learning 2.0 Program looks like a a nifty and fun way for anyone to explore Web 2.0 and digital culture technlogies. Set up as a Blogspot.com (Blogger.com) blog, there are 22 things and activities you discover on your own at your own time. According to the About page, the program was “designed by Helene [...]
Worth quoting in full is this media release about a hybrid Open Access option trial, based on author payment, launched by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), publisher of Learned Publishing: “The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP, http://www.alpsp.org), publisher of Learned Publishing – the leading journal on scholarly and [...]
While working on my PKP Conference article I came across the software reverse engineering and Internet search expert Fravia (aka Fjalar Ravia), whose Fravia.com Web site contains a wealth of search tips without turning to the Big G. One problem though is that his other site, Searchlores.org, to which much content is linked, appears to [...]
Founded in 1951 in Austria, the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Dokumentation und Information, ÖGDI for short, has a great collection of links worth exploring, including several on digital library collections and digital preservation, as well as page on online databases and portals, and a bibliography section tracking works within its mandate. I hope the umlauts don’t [...]
The Ten Thousand Year Blog celebrated its fifth anniversary in July 2007. Originally created with the Radio UserLand application, an extremely powerful but desktop-limited blog authoring tool, the very first Ten Thousand Year Blog (July 2002-July 2003) still exists at http://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/ I used Radio UserLand for a year and just before the license expired, switched [...]
A work colleague sent me an e-mail announcement about the Ning-powered Museum and Educational Social Network (MESN). So I joined. These things are as bad as blogs and I imagine they must be addictive for some people. My MESN profile is at http://mesn.museumpods.com/profile/BCArchivist. I noticed that there are some other museum-oriented Ning-powered socionets, but who [...]
“At the Annual 2007 American Library Association conference in Washington in June, the LITA Standards Interest Group sponsored a program entitled ‘Using Metadata Standards in Digital Libraries: implementing METS, MODS, PREMIS and MIX’. This session explored how libraries are using emerging standards to manage and provide navigation for digital library objects and featured the following: [...]
According to the latest e-newsletter of Access Copyright, the Canadian copyright collective and licensing agency of which I’m a member, “Access Copyright has completed an agreement with Creative Commons and the Wikimedia Foundation that provides the developmental framework for the Canadian Public Domain Registry which was announced last year at Access Copyright’s Annual General Meeting. [...]
Quoting from the announcement on the DIGLIB mailing list (02007 07 25): “We’re pleased to announce the availability of full papers from the recent Evidence-based Library and Information Practice conference, on the EBLIP4 website. Please visit http://www.eblip4.unc.edu/ to download excellent works by Suzanne Grefsheim, Denise Koufogiannakis, and many others – and keep checking back, because [...]
The July/August 02007 issue of the AIIM E-Doc Magazine Digital edition contains a series of articles on collaborative, chiefly blogs and wikis, and Web 2.0 technologies. Access is available upon free registration.
Ironically, given that I’m working on an article for Searcher magazine about the first international PKP (Public Knowledge Project) conference, here’s an announcement for the first issue of the scholarly (peer-reviewed) Journal of Web Librarianship and one by the very people who should be championing the Open Access model, colleagues who are librarians, that’s published [...]
Canada’s National Archival Appraisal Board has launched its Web site. The United States would do well to emulate the model we follow in order to encourage the donation and preservation of archival and other kinds of cultural property. A federal agency called the Canadian Cultural Property Export Board also assists in the process of granting [...]
Update for 02007 07 24: The special issue on digital preservation of the International Journal on Digital Libraries published by Spring is available. You can view the table of contents here, as well as order article reprints as PDF files. The prices for the latter are ridiculously high — $32 US each, so the entire [...]
One of the TikiWiki developers mentioned the Web of Change annual conference that’s held on Cortes Island in British Columbia, Canada, every fall. According to the conference’s front page, “Web of Change is an annual gathering connecting senior leaders working at the convergence of online strategy, technology, and social change. Held every fall at Hollyhock [...]
Quoting from the SOL*R front page, “BCcampus’ Shareable Online Learning Resources (SOL*R) provides the opportunity for British Columbia’s post-secondary educators to access and contribute free learning resources.” Source: Edtechpost About page, 02007 07 22
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02007 07 20): Update for 02007 09 04: The deadline for submissions was extended to September 15, 02007. “The Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei and Digital Preservation Cluster of the DELOS Network of Excellence in association with DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) and InterPARES announce a call for paper proposals for a Conference on [...]
The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will hold its 10th International ISKO Conference (ISKO 10) in Montréal, Canada, August 5 to 8, 02008. The conference will be hosted by the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) at the Université de Montréal. The theme of the conference is: Culture and Identity in [...]
Another exciting Library OPAC 2.0 open source project: following on the heels of the VuFind announcement, this one was to the WEB4LIB list (02007 07 20): “The University of Rochester River Campus Libraries are designing and developing a set of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to [...]
Update for 02007 07 21: Somehow I missed the news that Google purchased Feedburner for $100 million or so. I guess Google wasn’t bothered by the name. Original post, 02004 07 31: Visited Syndic8.com to check on my RSS feed and noticed a new column with some options to subscribe to the feed with various [...]
According to a posting on the DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK mailing list (02007 07 20), “The National Library of the Netherlands (KB, Koninklijke Bibliotheek) has commissioned research into long term preservation techniques as part of their current agreement with IBM, and have formed a year long working group to carry out the study. Jeff Rothenberg and The British [...]
According to the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, the Y2Y project “The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative is a joint Canadian-U.S. network of over 800 organizations, institutions, foundations, and conservation-minded individuals who have recognized the value of working together to restore and maintain the unique natural heritage of the Yellowstone to Yukon region and the [...]
Original post, 02007 07 19: I signed up with a new Web hosting provider, Netfirms.com, which offers payment under the domain Netfirms.ca in Canadian dollars, so I’m hopeful that they will provide better service. The control panel is not as sophisticated as the CPanel one used by Bluehost and several other providers, but I made [...]
According to the front page of VuFind, VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library’s resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include: * Catalog Records * Locally Cached Journals * Digital [...]
Update for 02007 07 20: This post no longer applies. I’ve since switched commercial Web hosting services to Netfirms.com. What an adventure this has been! Xannoblog will remain on WordPress.com, but I won’t be updating it. I’ve given up on maintaining The Ten Thousand Year Blog on Bluehost.com, so I’ve switched over to the free [...]
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 6(2) is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_2.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02007 07 18
If you wish to comment on the European Union’s eScience digital repositories study, the deadline is July 30, 02007. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 2007 07 18
“The July/August 2007 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.”
From the front page: “The second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will be held on October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University. The event is jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. The theme for this colloquium will be “Exploring the scholarly query potential of [...]
Quoting from the announcement sent to various mailing lists: The Digital Library Federation Aquifer Metadata Working Group is proud to announce the release of the DLF Aquifer MODS Guidelines Levels of Adoption (http://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/x/q24) The Levels of Adoption document is intended to supplement the Digital Library Federation / Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records (http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/dlfmodsimplementationguidelines_finalnov2006.pdf), [...]
If things look a little different and don’t behave as expected for a while, it’s because I finally managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.2.1. I’m still getting the CPU Quote Exceeded error message from my service provider (Bluehost). This appears to be a known issue with Bluehost going back at least three months or more [...]
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