Another little gem of a site from the Washington State Historical Society is its Washington History Online that’s designed for students. Among the interesting sub-sites that have repurposed some of their digitized content are The Treaty Trail: U.S.—Indian Treaty Councils in the Northwest and Leschi: Justice in Our Time.
The Montana Historical Society launched a Montana History Wiki in 02007. Congratulations on letting the public help tell its story.
Part of Chicago’s Festival of Maps, Maps: Finding Our Place in the World is an exhibition at the Field Museum of Natural History created with the help of the Newberry Library. You can view and interact with parts of the exhibit through the Web site. The exhibition of more than 100 maps runs from November [...]
If you’re using the WordPress 2.3 branch, an urgent security fix is available as version 2.3.2. You are encouraged to upgrade immediately.
The Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec launched a new digital collection of maps called America, 1500-1800 in support of its book La mesure d’un continent: atlas historique de l’Amerique du Nord, 1492-1814 (Mapping a Continent: Historical Atlas of North America, 1492-1814, 02007) and the exhibition Ils ont cartographié l’Amérique. America, 1500-1800 is available only [...]
From across the pond in an easterly direction from me comes Da Blog, the digital archives blog of the University of London Computer Center. Welcome to the digital preservation neighborhood folks! Their blog is powered by WordPress.
From the announcement to WEB4LIB (02007 12 17): Code4Lib Journal covers the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. Read Volume 1 issue 1 of this OPENACCESS journal ONLINE now at http://journal.code4lib.org/. ISSN: 1940-5758
Edited by David L. Green and dedicated to the memory of the remarkable digital and radical historian Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), the December 02007 issue of Academic Commons brings together a series of papers on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts. Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 02007 12 17
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 6(4), 4Q2007, is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_6_4.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02007 12 16
While it’s not perfect for my purposes, I purchased The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding version 6 (TNG) by Darrin Lythgoe as the basis for a reborn Camera Workers. I’m not yet ready to unveil the new site as I need to transfer the information from volume 1 (1858-1900) first as a priority. While there [...]
Also from the Image Permanence Institute comes the amazing Digital Sample Book in which you can explore through extreme magnification examples of various kinds of printing technology used for images, including ones used before and after analog photography.
From the announcement on DIGLIB and other mailing lists (02007 12 14) and the Image Permanence Institute‘s site: The Image Permanence Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for a major research and development project dealing with the preservation of digitally printed materials. Inkjet, [...]
For the 74th World Library and Information Congress, Quebec City, Canada, August 10 to 14, 02008, the IFLA Section on Preservation and Conservation, IFLA CDNL Alliance on Bibliographic Standards (ICABS), IFLA Information Technology Section, IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (PAC) and IFLA Law Libraries Section have jointly organized two sessions on digital preservation: [...]
The AHDS-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK list (02007 12 12) reports that Managing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Digital Learning Materials: A Development Pack for Institutional Repositories by John Casey, Jackie Proven and David Dripps, and released under a a Creative Commons License Attribution 2.5 UK: Scotland, can be downloaded from http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/outputs.php. Further, “The TrustDR (Trust in Digital Repositories) [...]
According to an announcement on DIGLIB (02007 12 12), The University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce that records from our MBooks collection are available for OAI harvesting. The MBooks collection consists of materials digitized by Google in partnership with the University of Michigan. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/o/oai/oai?verb=Identify Only records for MBooks available in the public domain [...]
Arxivers sense Fronteres (Archivists without Borders) was founded in 1998 and is based in Barcelona, Spain. According to the English About us page: “The members that make up Archivists without Borders are mostly archivists that contribute with their professional knowledge and experience elsewhere, for example to organizations and entities that due to political, economical or [...]
Quoting the front page of this new and wonderful digital collection from Rice University, Houston, Texas: The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel [...]
From the front page of Scholarpedia: … Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world. Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program – MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by [...]
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