LISWire – The Librarian’s News Wire and LISEvents are two new library information and library industry (vendor) information Web sites from Blake Carver, “the guy behind LISNews & LISHost” as it says on LISWire. The subscription URL for the RSS feed for LISWire is http://www.liswire.com/rss.xml. The subscription URL for the RSS feed for LISEvents is [...]
Update for 02008 04 27: I received my beta-invite acknowledgement by e-mail on April 23, 02008 and finally got around to registering and creating my first Twine on electronic records. Since there was already one called Digital Preservation, I was prevented from using those two words. Here’s a screenshot of my Electronic Records Twine. I [...]
Net-Gold, hosted on Yahoo! Groups, was founded on May 19, 2004. Linda Bee and David P. Dillard co-own Net-Gold. David frequently posts Net-Gold content to the digital reference (DIG_REF) mailing list. His e-mail to DIG_REF, based on someone else’s contribution about the JISC Libraries of the Future, led to The Ten Thousand Year Blog being [...]
The Web 2.0 Expo is “co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, is a conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.” The most recent Web 2.0 Expo was held in San Francisco, California, [...]
The UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), which is involved with higher education issues, has launched a Libraries of the Future campaign. The JISC Libraries of the Future blog will keep you current with the ongoing discourse and debate. A special supplement of the Guardian newspaper titled Libraries Unleashed was sponsored by the JISC and [...]
The Digital Preservation Coalition hopes to stimulate further discussion around the suitability of the Adobe Acrobat PDF file format as the preservation format for static documents. You can read about their adovacy in their latest Technology Watch Report 08-02 titled Preserving the Data Explosion: Using PDF and authored by Betsy A. Fanning. Naturally, it’s a [...]
I haven’t checked, but I wonder if any of the Creationst and Intelligent Design (ID) sites have taken notice of the latest nail in their anti-evolution coffin. I call this story “God and the Lizard.” I heard about it on CBC Radio on April 23, 02008. Ten, yes 10 Italian wall lizards (Podarcis sicula) were [...]
The Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter for April 2008 has a little writeup about the demonstration Chronopolis datagrid framework being run by the San Diego Supercomputer Center and its partners across the United States. According to the article “the partnership will develop best practices for the entire NDIIPP [National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation [...]
The Encyclopedia Britannica WebShare program is designed “for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. You get complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if you like, an easy way to give your readers background of the topics you write about with links to complete Britannica articles.” Sign me [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 04 20): The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in [...]
The 4th DELOS Summer School on Digital Libraries and Data Archives: Making Sense of Digital Curation and Preservation is being held June 8 to 14, 02008 at the Grand Hotel Continental Tirrenia, Tirrenia, Italy. The DELOS Association on Digital Libraries, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), and the Feltrinelli Foundation are delighted to announce that [...]
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 7(1), 02008, is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_7_1.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02008 04 10
The Museum Computer Network and the Museum Software Foundation have collaborated on a new project called the MCN Project Registry at a site called MuseTech Central. The registry, according to an announcement on the DIGLIB list (02008 04 11), is “for sharing information about technology-related projects in the cultural heritage sector. From implementations of digital [...]
According to the Google App Engine front page, this new tool “enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.” Zope developers will have a headstart because the programming language used by the Google App Engine is Python. We could be seeing some very interesting extensions to Plone. Right [...]
Here’s the announcement on various mailing lists (02008 04 09) about the 4th International Digital Curation Conference, “Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?”: In partnership with the National e-Science Centre we are holding our 4th International Digital Curation Conference on 1-3 December 2008 at the Hilton Grosvenor Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. The DCC invites the submission of [...]
Some new digital content that’s appeared over the past few months in British Columbia archives and libraries includes: The Colonial Correspondence of Vancouver Island and British Columbia at the University of Victoria, which consists of a searchable database of transcriptions of colonial despatches from and to the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia up [...]
Update for 02008 04 04: The PREMIS Editorial Committee is pleased to announce the release of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.0. This document is a revision of Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final report of the PREMIS Working Group, issued in May 2005. The PREMIS Data Dictionary and its supporting documentation [...]
As announced on various mailing lists (02008 04 04): Issue no. 17 (September 2007 – February 2008) of the DPC “What’s New in Digital Preservation” bulletin is now available from the Digital Preservation Coalition Web site: http://www.dpconline.org/graphics/whatsnew/issue17.html “What’s New” will also be available shortly on the following website: National Library of Australia: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/index.html “What’s New” [...]
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