Stumbled across the new release of Mozilla Firefox, aka Firefox 3. Sad to see that the Firebug addon is not yet compatible. But I came across a different fascinating addon called Hyperword from a British company. This amazing addon lets you highlight a word or words on a Web page and then select from a [...]
From the announcement on the Archives & Archivists list (02008 06 27): EAD at 10: a symposium Sunday, August 31st [02008], 9 am – 4 pm, Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 1998 was a year that saw the introduction of Viagra, the iMac, and Euro coins. John Glenn returned to space via the Space [...]
The European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) announced it is bringing its work to a close at the end of 02008 once the TAPE project is completed. ECPA was established in 1994 and hosted since that time by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In terms of information resource continuity, the announcement [...]
Visuwords.com, according to its creator, the Logical Octopus, is an “online visual thesaurus and dictionary.” Visuwords uses a free English language lexical database from Princeton University called WordNet. You can download the source code for Visuwords at no charge and install it on your own server. Source: DIG_REF mailing list, 02008 06 26
The American Geographical Society Library launched a new digital collection titled simply Tibet that consists of historical photographs and maps from its holdings. The digital collection is hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a new addition to the AGSL Digital Collections Portal. For more historical photographs of Tibet see The Tibet Album: British [...]
The third issue of the Code4Lib Journal has some articles on digital preservation and digital archiving. Source: WEB4LIB mailing list, 02008 06 24
H.M. Gladney’s Digital Document Quarterly 7(2), 02008, is available at http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_7_2.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02008 06 24
From the announcement I received on 02008 06 20 about the first public release of the Lemon8-XML source code from the Public Knowledge Project (PKP): The Public Knowledge Project is very pleased to announce the public beta release of Lemon8-XML (http://pkp.sfu.ca/lemon8) available to download and install. Lemon8-XML is a web-based application designed to make it [...]
While visiting the City of Vancouver Archives Web site on June 16, 02008, I couldn’t help but notice an ad for the Bullen Photo Co. at 518 West Hastings St. in Vancouver. What caught my eye was the clearly demonic or devilish figure beneath the camera’s focusing cloth. Harry Elder Bullen (1880-1963), otherwise known as [...]
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 06 14): Adding value to data – Digital Repositories in the e-Science world Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/) December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net) There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science [...]
According to the June 02008 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter, the Library of Congress and the California Digital Library “have jointly developed a format for transferring digital content. ‘BagIt’ is based on the concept of ‘bag it and tag it,’ where digital content is packaged (the bag) along with a small amount of machine-readable [...]
From the announcement on the Archives & Archivists mailing list (02008 06 13): DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects April 1â€3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://www.ils.unc.edu/digccurr2009/ The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina is pleased to announce our second digital curation curriculum symposium. DigCCurr 2009: Digital [...]
Another social and research networking opportunity for scientists and researchers highlighted by Gerry McKiernan on his blog. According to ResearchGATE‘s front page, “ResearchGATE is a new free of charge web 2.0 platform designed for the need of researchers. With this new platform we want to change the world of science by providing a global and [...]
From the announcement on the DIGLIB mailing list (02008 06 11): DHCS Colloquium, November 1st – 3rd, 2008 Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008 The goal of the annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities [...]
From the announcement on the Archives & Archivists mailing list (02008 06 09): The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities announces a new service provider founded to help documentary editors plan and develop electronic documentary editions. Rob Vaughan, President of the Virginia Foundation, is enthusiastic about the project’s potential to transform and streamline digital editing. “We [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 06 05): The JISC-funded UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme has recently been evaluated and the report is now available on the JISC website at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/preservation/uklockssevaluation.pdf LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an e-journal archiving system which enables institutions to keep licensed e-journal content on local servers so that [...]
Ok, it was really just my own domain. My former Web hosting provider gave me zero advance warning and suspended my account with two options due to server overload: upgrade to a dedicated server with them or find another hosting company. After quickly researching both options, I ended up cancelling and switching to a Virtual [...]
My latest article for Searcher magazine on document-sharing services, “Hit Me with Your Best Doc”, is the lead cover story for June 02008. It’s not available online, however, but will appear in some of the commercial full-text databases and can also be purchased through ITI-InfoCentral.com, the digital archive of Information Today, Inc. (ITI) publications.
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