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Audio: Sarah Houghton-Jan and Andy Woodworth, Authors of the E-Book User's Bill of Rights, Interviewed on The Pod Delusion
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, Libraries, Maps, Podcasts, Preservation, Publishing
|Salim Fadhley from The Pod Delusion podcast talks with Sarah and Andy about the E-Book User’s Bill of Rights that they wrote and distributed for publication on February 28, 2010. (and we posted) here. You can read it here. Here’s the Program Blurb from The Pod Delusion Web Site: Last week the publisher harper-collins anounced […]
From an Ordnance Survey Announcement (via GISUser.com) 100 stunning aerial images which form part of an extraordinary outdoor exhibition can now be viewed on a new interactive map created using Ordnance Survey data. In September 2010 Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) officially opened the Britain from the Air street gallery […]
Internet Catches Updated Butterfly and Moth Website Why should we care about butterflies and moths? Thanks to butterflies, bees, birds, and other animal pollinators, the world’s flowering plants are able to reproduce and bear fruit. That very basic capability is at the root of many of the foods we eat. And, not least, pollination adds to […]
New street level crime website proves popular The latest set of street level crime and anti-social behaviour data, alongside updated local policing information, is now available to view. The new information gives the public the power to look back and see the crimes and incidents of anti-social behaviour that have happened on or near their […]
"Rare Historical Resources Now Online From West Texas Digital Archives"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Resources
|From a DuraSpace Blog Post: The West Texas Digital Archives, an online digital repository of significant historical materials belonging to the members of the Abilene Library Consortium (ALC), is now available online at http://wtda.alc.org/. This virtual collection of more than 44,000 preserves and provides access to valuable historical resources previously unavailable to the general public. […]
U.S. Coast Survey Civil War Map Among First to Visualize Slavery, Influence Lincoln’s Strategy It isn’t often that a map visually displays a moral issue facing a divided nation and then affects a President’s response. Yet nearly 150 years ago, the U.S. Coast Survey — NOAA’s predecessor organization — produced such a map that, according […]
History + Geography: A New Online Resource Will Launch Next Week at National Library of Scotland
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From the Visualising Urban Geographies Project Web Site: The new online resources [set to debut next week] were created by the Visualising Urban Geographies project. This collaborative project between the University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland has brought together sets of historical maps, census and address-based information to allow new ways of understanding […]
From an NTIA Announcement: The National Broadband Map — the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband Internet availability — and the results of a new nationwide survey on broadband adoption [was released on February 17, 2011]. The National Broadband Map…is an unprecedented searchable database of information on high-speed Internet access. NTIA created the National […]