Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments released at ICA Congress 2008

Update for 02008 07 31: The Principles and Functional Requirements for Records in Electronic Office Environments was released at the 2008 ICA Congress in three modules as Adobe Acrobat PDF files: Module 1: Overview and Statement of Principles Module 2: Guidelines and Functional Requirements for Electronic Records Management Systems Module 3: Guidelines and Functional Requirements [...]

Tags: Archives and Libraries, Electronic Records, Essential Readings by David
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New search engine Cuil

Cuil.com is a new search engine with an impressive management list, including individuals from Google and AltaVista. Source: DIG_REF mailing list, 02008 07 28 Screenshot of search results from Cuil

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North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project

According to the Project Introduction for the North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project, The joint project of the North Carolina State University Libraries and the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis will focus on collection and preservation of digital geospatial data resources from state and local government agencies in North Carolina. The objectives [...]

Tags: Archives and Libraries, Digital Preservation, Electronic Records, Visualization Systems by David
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GeoRush 2008, celebrate BC150 with a geocache hunt

The BC 150 Secretariat and the BC Geocaching Association have collaborated with BC Parks in a unique celebration of British Columbia’s 150th anniversary called GeoRush 2008. Those commemorative tokens look really cool! Here’s the BCGA’s page on GeoRush 2008 that describes the locations of the caches with those tokens. Happy hunting everyone.

Tags: History Findings, Search and Retrieval Technology, Visualization Systems by David
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Talking about the Last Spike photograph, November 7, 01885

A while back I was answering some questions for Nelle Oosterom of The Beaver magazine about the famous “Last Spike” photograph taken on November 7, 01885 to mark the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The August-September 02008 issue contains her writeup about the photograph, with some quotes by and references to yours truly, including [...]

Tags: History Findings, Virtual Exhibits, Visualization Systems by David
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A little bit of Knol in your life

Update for 02008 07 23: Thanks to my omniscient observers, I’ve learned that Google’s Wikipedia-killer service Knol has gone live with a beta version. It actually reminds me more of About.com than it does Wikipedia. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like once you log in with your Google account. The “Verify Name” is [...]

Tags: Information Knowledgists, Search and Retrieval Technology, Searcher Magazine Threads by David
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Start your archival description Web engines with ICA-AtoM

Update for 02008 07 21: July 22, 02008 marks the official debut of version 1.0.x of the ICA-AtoM software at the International Council on Archives Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia. I’ve been spending an average of a couple of hours each day since late April 02008 helping test the software. I’m even more impressed than [...]

Tags: Archives and Libraries, Cool Tools, Information Knowledgists, Museums and Art Galleries, Search and Retrieval Technology by David
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BiblioCommons social discovery library system at the Oakville Public Library, Ontario, Canada

Curious about BiblioCommons now that you’ve read about in Library Journal and are as frustrated as I am about the 12-person company’s Web site that consists of a single page with three outdated testimonials? You can run through this Adobe Captivate tour of the Oakville Public Library’s beta test or you can dig right in [...]

Tags: Archives and Libraries, Collaborative Web, Cool Tools, Information Knowledgists, Search and Retrieval Technology, Searcher Magazine Threads by David
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Two new online texts about e-learning

From an announcement to irrodlsubscribe@athabascau.ca (02008 07 17): We would like to bring your attention to two very interesting texts that focus on online learning that have recently been released in both paper and online in PDF format. The first, published by Athabasca University Press, is the 2nd edition of “The Theory and Practice of [...]

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July/August 02008 issue of D-Lib Magazine is out

From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 07 15): The July/August 2008 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available. This issue contains four articles, a project update, two conference reports from JCDL 2008, the ‘In Brief’ column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in ‘Clips and [...]

Tags: Digital Libraries and Collections, Digital Preservation, Essential Readings, Search and Retrieval Technology by David
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Picture Paradise: Asia-Pacific Photography, 1840s-1940s, National Gallery of Australia exhibit

I received an invitation, thanks to Gael Newton, Senior Curator, Photography, National Gallery of Australia, to the opening on July 10, 02008 of Picture Paradise: Asia-Pacific Photography, 1840s-1940s, which runs until November 9, 02008. The exhibit is also part of Vivid, Australia’s National Photography Festival. Unless some kind soul sends me an all-expenses paid trip [...]

Tags: History Findings, Museums and Art Galleries, Visualization Systems by David
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WALL-E, a digital preservation peer, or just another analog-loving robot?

I was impressed with WALL-E‘s analog preservation skills. He or it knew enough to bake a VHS tape so it could be played. Not so impressive was its treatment of objects that once contained digital data. His abode contained hanging compact discs or DVDs. Interesting too that when WALL-E ended up being fried his main [...]

Tags: Digital Dark Age Funnies, Web Jots by David
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SHAMAN spins a digital preservation formula

Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent Archiving or SHAMAN is a European-funded project to “develop and test a next generation digital preservation framework including tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data across libraries and archives. … The development work will be structured around four core components whose objectives can be described [...]

Tags: Archives and Libraries, Digital Preservation by David
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DPE releases European Quarterly Preservation Digest

Digital Preservation Europe has released its European Quarterly Preservation Digest that summarizes European-funded digital preservation projects and other information from organizations such as PLANETS, CASPAR, LIWA, SHAMAN, DRAMBORA and DPE. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02008 07 14

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Survivin’ that ol’ zombie apocalypse

How well would you do in a zombie apocalypse? 64% Created by OnePlusYou Warning: Zombies Ahead (and All Around) by David Mattison, a UMapper.com Map

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Maps, Myths and Narratives: 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography, July 02009, Copenhagen, Denmark

This looks like a fascinating conference; mapping mythical and imaginary places is a subject that’s always appealed to me: Maps, Myths and Narratives: Cartography of the Far North 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography, July 12-17, 2009. Location: The Black Diamond, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark Call for Papers Date: 2009-07-12 Date Submitted: 2008-07-09 [...]

Tags: Archives and Libraries, Digital Humanities, Visualization Systems by David
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UMapper, Web-based mapping tool for blogs and social networking apps

UMapper calls itself “the first universal web-based map-layering engine” and it’s free for now. Here’s a feature set from its start page: • Create interactive flash maps • Display maps on your website or social network • Export data to Flash ActionScript 3.0 or KML • Explore and interact with our map community • Fulfill [...]

Tags: Blogging Experience, Collaborative Web, Cool Tools, Search and Retrieval Technology, Visualization Systems by David
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Google gets Lively, 3D chat rooms

Google Labs have launched a beta version of Lively, an application for building 3D chat rooms. One of the features is the ability to “stream personal photos and video.” I wonder how many people will get caught by Google’s terms of service that prohibit the usual terrible things that go on in many chat rooms [...]

Tags: Collaborative Web, Information Knowledgists, Visualization Systems by David
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RezEd hub, from real education to virtual education and back again

Alice would be pleased and fit right in to “RezEd, the Hub for Learning and Virtual Worlds”. RezEd calls itself “your community for everything related to learning and virtual worlds! Each month we will feature inter-related podcasts, brief best practices, digital resources in the library, and featured blog posts and discussions.” In July RezEd is [...]

Tags: Collaborative Web, Distance Education and E-Learning, Information Knowledgists by David
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Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges: a Handbook

The European Commission’s Science in Society Programme and the German Commission for UNESCO have jointly published Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges: a Handbook in print and electronic editions. The English version is a translation of the German one originally published by the German Commission for UNESCO in 2007. You can download the 2008 English edition [...]

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Get some enlightenment in the digital landfill with Information Zen

Information Zen is the very cleverly named social/business networking water cooler created by AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) for anyone in the information management, records management and enterprise content management fields. AIIM is also rebranding its online E-DOC Magazine to Infonomics. One of AIIM’s recent marketing tools, “What’s In Your Digital Landfill?”, a [...]

Tags: Digital Dark Age Funnies, Electronic Records, Information Knowledgists by David
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US Government Accountability Office report on e-mail management

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report titled Federal Records: National Archives and Selected Agencies Need to Strengthen E-Mail Management (GAO-08-742, June 02008; Adobe Acrobat PDF, 1.19MB).

Tags: Electronic Records, Essential Readings by David
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Searching the wide Missouri digital heritage river

Hope you get my drift pardner. According to this Information Today Newsbreak (02008 07 07), Missouri has launched a free collaborative search portal that integrates millions of historical documents from the state’s local libraries, universities, and cultural institutions in a single web gateway. Powered by Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator (www.deepwebtech.com), Missouri Digital Heritage [...]

Tags: Archives and Libraries, Digital Libraries and Collections, History Findings, Search and Retrieval Technology by David
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Archives New Zealand on digital recordkeeping

Archives New Zealand (Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga), the national public archives, has a nice section on its Continuum site about Digital Recordkeeping.

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