From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (2008 01 30): As of today, the web-published content of the journal Graft: Organ and Cell Transplantation (SAGE Publications) has been exported from the CLOCKSS archive, and is now available to the world from two CLOCKSS hosting platforms at universities in Europe and the US. Released under a Creative Commons [...]
Keotag is a tag search engine, a tag generator and a social bookmarks link generator. The latter two are rather limited given that they only support a handful of social tagging and bookmarking sites. As a mouse hover over the site icons doesn’t always pop up a tool tip for each icon, it may help [...]
The Horizon Report 2008 Edition from the New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative is available as a PDF download. It was officially released on January 29, 02008 at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting. The report look at these six technologies: Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less: Grassroots Video Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less: Collaboration [...]
From the announcement on WEB4LIB (02008 01 28): The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) will host a forum on “Digital Preservation: Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Resources,” to be held March 14, 2008 in Washington, DC. With the increasing number of digital objects—both those born digital and those that have been converted to digital formats to [...]
The Publishing Research Consortium “is a group of associations and publishers, which supports global research into scholarly communication in order to enable evidence-based discussion. Our objective is to support work that is scientific and pro-scholarship. Overall, we aim to promote an understanding of the role of publishing and its impact on research and teaching.” (quoted [...]
The alpha version of the DRIVER project’s repositories portal is up and running. DRIVER (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research) is a European Union-funded infrastructure to support the preservation of and access to scientific data. DRIVER also supports the principles around Open Access. User support for the DRIVER repositories portal is through the Driver [...]
The 12th annual Museums and the Web Conference for 02008 is being held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 9 to 12. The regular registration deadline is January 31, 02008 and the deadline for Best of the Web nominations is February 1, 02008. Papers from all the past conference are also online at http://conference.archimuse.com/researchForum
The Canadian Film Encyclopedia “is an online reference project from the Film Reference Library, a leading educator and research and information resource for Canadian film. … Currently, the CFE includes over 750 film title, biographical and subject entries, covering some of Canada’s foremost historical and modern films and filmmakers. The film title entries include plot [...]
Marie Cooley, a resident of Jacksonville, Florida, thought she was going to lose her job Steven E. Hutchins Architects when she read a help wanted ad. So she snuck into her workplace one day and deleted an estimated $2.5 million worth of electronic records. Having confessed to the crime, she faces possible jail time. With [...]
From the front page of the Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2008 Conference: The annual international conference and course Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. Since its inception in 2000, LIDA has emphasized the examination of contemporary [...]
The Archives of Ontario is likely the first provincial archives in Canada, let alone first Canadian government archives, to join the YouTube social video networking and Web 2.0 revolution. Congratulations to the staff, including visionary managers, who took a chance and decided to give this experiment a chance. If you’re dying to know how to [...]
First there was Open Source software, then Open Access as promulgated through the Budapest Open Access Initiative, followed by the was Open Data movement, which I’m not sure has a city or a declaration behind its ideas, and now there’s the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. On the Web site be sure to review the [...]
I stumbled across GetWiki the other day. Here’s what it’s front page says about is content and purpose: WELCOME to GetWiki.net, a Wiki for the Humanities and Sciences, and “meta” topics, from Metaphysics to Metadata, running the easy-to-use GetWiki software. GetWiki.net is a verifiable information site on intellectual issues, technology, and interaction, a document collaboration [...]
The Library of Congress has set up its own collection of photos on Flickr and is encouraging the public to tag the collections of photos it’s posted there. The two collections so far are 1930s-40s in color (1,615 photos) and News in the 1910s (1,500 photos). The latter consists of photographs taken by the Bain [...]
The European Digital Library is holding an international conference, One more step towards the European digital library, on 31 January and 1 February 02008 at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Except for getting there and other living expenses while visiting, there is no cost to participate.
The British Columbia Breeding Bird Atlas should excite a lot of birders who are looking for a way to share what they observe and know about the indigenous and migratory population of bird species throughout the province. This is great project. Some of the site functionality, however, hasn’t taken flight as of 02008 01 17.
Update for 02008 05 28: The deadline has been extended to July 31, 02008. Think you’re up to the challenge of digital preservation? Then take the second international Digital Preservation Challenge from Digital Preservation Europe. The second DPC runs from 02008 January 15 to 02008 May 30. Winners will be announced at the ECDL in [...]
Jonathan Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer and President of Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced on his blog today that his company is purchasing MySQL AB for a hot billion dollars. I only hope whatever changes this portends for open source computing will be for the better. Source: PhotoMatt, “Sun Acquires MySQL,” 02008 01 16
I stumbled across a link to Catherine C. Marshall’s blog the other day. She’s a Senior Researcher with Microsoft Corporation, a member of the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries Texas A&M University, and the lead author of “The Long Term Fate of Our Digital Belongings: Toward a Service Model for Personal Archives”, available [...]
The January/February 02008 issue D-Lib Magazine is available. One of the feature articles is titled “Creating Preservation-Ready Web Resources” by Joan A. Smith and Michael L. Nelson, while a couple of others look at institutional repositories and online archiving.
The UK Digital Curatoion Centre is seeking public comments on its Draft DCC Curation Lifecycle Model according to this announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 01 15): The Digital Curation Centre was delighted to present the Draft DCC Curation Lifecycle Model at the 3rd International Digital Curation Conference 2007. The model provides a generic graphical high-level overview [...]
Here’s a description from the front page of American Social History Online, which is pretty darned impressive: Aquifer American Social History Online – Find and use 19th and 20th century primary resources from unique historical digital collections. search diverse digital content from 40 American Social History research collections find more than 230,000 digitized objects in [...]
My daily newspaper ran a story about the 375 million year old Tiktaalik roseae fossil, a “fishapod”, discovered on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic in 2004. According to the article, it’s “been hailed as an ‘evolutionary icon’ because it represents the crucial transition from sea to land for some of the Earth’s most primitive [...]
The North American David Thompson Bicentennials site offers a variety of information about this great Canadian explorer whose 200th anniversary of travels from east to west and north to south is being celebrated between 2007 and 2011.
From the Online Exhibition page of Exploring the Early Americas virtual exhibit at the Library of Congress, which “features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection. This ongoing exhibition has three major themes: Pre-Contact America; Explorations and Encounters; and Aftermath of [...]
Search Wikia is live. It’s the creation of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and a contributory/collaborative search engine that relies on the individual users for its growth. Here is what a search result page looks like. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger version of the image.
My article on the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference held July 11-13, 02007 in Vancouver, BC, Canada, was published in the January 02008 issue of Searcher magazine. The article is not online for free through the magazine, but the hyperlinks in the article are. For additional posts on the PKP conference see http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2139 and [...]
SlideShare is a Flickr- and YouTube like service for sharing your most excellent and dull presentations. The service is free and private sharing, also free, was introduced in November 02007.
Last night at a New Year’s Eve party a librarian friend reminded me of the Evergreen open source integrated library management system, an application initially designed with public libraries in mind. Development is being led by the Georgia Public Library Service with US federal government funding through the Institute for Museums and Library Services. British Columbia public [...]
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