MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
From the People’s Daily: On July 13, 79-year-old Yang Liangcai and several colleagues carefully selected several yellowed books and documents from huge piles of cardboard boxes in a document room of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. “These paper originals will be sorted, scanned and then made available online,” Yang said. [Clip] The […]
Digitization Projects: "Boston College Libraries Publish Digital Edition of W.B. Yeats' First Play 'Love and Death'"
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|From the Boston College Chronicle: Boston College has published an online edition of Love and Death – the first play by Irish Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats, which has never before been published or performed. The play, which is presented in both digital form and through images of the original manuscript, can be viewed at […]
Archives/Digital Preservation: "Kate Wittenberg Appointed Portico Managing Director"
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|From an ITHAKA Announcement: ITHAKA is pleased to announce that Kate Wittenberg has been appointed the new Managing Director of Portico, effective September 1. Eileen Fenton, who successfully led Portico since its founding in 2002, will work closely with Kate over the coming weeks as Kate transitions fully into her new role and concludes projects […]
Newspaper Digitization: "From the archives to digitized: Historic Vermont newspapers get new lease on life online"
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|From VTDigger.org: The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project last week added its first batch of digitized newspaper pages to a national database dedicated to providing searchable digital copies of historic newspapers from all over the nation. Tom McMurdo, the project librarian for the state effort, said there are currently 25 states involved in the National Digital […]
"Looking for Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment" In New Issue (July, 2011) of Ariadne
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|Ariadne #64 (July, 2011) Main Articles in This Issue: Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources. Image ‘Quotation’ Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples […]
From Europeana News: The results of this year’s user survey are now available online. The survey ran in May 2011 and received over 5000 responses. Respondents say they find the content of Europeana more userful than on similar sites and far more trustworthy. Read a Summary of the Results (PowerPoint) Read the Complete Report (34 […]
Digitization: Harvard Law School Library Announces Expansion of Nuremberg Trials Project
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|From the Harvard Law School Library: The Harvard Law School Library has announced the expansion of the Nuremberg Trials Project, a digital collection of documents relating to the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany by the International Military Tribunal and also the trials of other accused war criminals by the United States […]
From the Smithsonian: "Digitization Project Brings Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions into 21st Century"
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|From the Smithsonian Announcement: The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives announces a new 3-D digital resource that will enable scholars and the public to learn more about the ancient Near East through a unique group of pressed-paper molds called squeezes. This resource provides unparalleled access to the archives’ collection […]
California History: Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere Add Local History Resources
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|Images, postcards, material from a wine library, and more. From the California Digital Library: CDL is pleased to announce the online publication of approximately 2,000 diverse materials documenting local people, places, and events throughout California in the Online Archive of California (OAC) and Calisphere. The images were produced during the 2010-2011 Local History Digital Resources […]
New Issue Alert: The Code4Lib Journal (14) is Now Available Online
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|Released on July 25, 2011. Issue 14 contains 11 articles/books reviews/editorials. Here are abstracts and links. All articles are full text and free. Editorial Introduction: Prioritizing the Future, Collaborating in the Present, and Archiving the Past by Timothy M. McGeary This is an exciting time for libraries and technology, and libraries have the opportunity now […]