MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Now Available: D-Lib Magazine (July/August 2011; 17.8)
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, New Issue, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing, Reports, Resources
|Here are links to articles in the new issue of D-Lib (July/August 2011). The editorial, conference reports, and news/events section are available at the bottom of the table of contents. Articles Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era Article by Michalis Gerolimos, Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece and Rania Konsta, Ionian University, […]
Source: The Signal (Published by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program) Author: A guest post by Kristin Snawder, a 2011 Junior Fellow working with NDIIPP. From the Blog Post: While scanning can be a prelude to digital preservation, the two are distinct. It is quite possible to launch a scanning project, perhaps with temporary […]
New Digital Archive Will Preserve Historic Images, Documents of Virginia Indian Tribes
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, News, Resources
|From a News Release: The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) will receive a grant of $150,000 from energy company, Dominion Resources to build the Commonwealth’s only online historical and cultural archive about Virginia’s Indian communities. The grant matches an additional award from the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation of $75,000. Virginia Indian Heritage Online will […]
Conference Paper: Puzzling Over Digital Preservation – Identifying Traditional and New Skills Needed for Digital Preservation
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Preservation
|This paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly scheduled to take place in about a month in San Juan. Title Puzzling Over Digital Preservation – Identifying Traditional and New Skills Needed for Digital Preservation (14 pages; PDF) Authors Thomas Bahr (German National Library of […]
On the Miller-McCune web site, Richard J. Salvucci, an economics professor at Trinity University in San Antonio has authored, “How Google Disrespected Mexican History.” The column focuses on Google abruptly ending their newspaper digitization program. We posted about it when it happened last month. Since some of what we wrote is quoted in the Salvucci’s […]
From the University of Pennsylvania: The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Penn’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library a grant of $300,000 to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web a collection of approximately 1,000 European and American manuscripts from 1601 to 1800. This two-year project builds on and expands the work […]
Digital Preservation: GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) Provides Access To NOAA Collection
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From a GPO Announcement: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is providing permanent public access to the Coastal Zone Information Collection (CZIC) through the agency’s Federal Digital System (FDsys). In collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center, GPO is providing digital access to more than 5,000 coastal related documents. The […]
New & Free: USGS Releases More than 200,000 Historical Maps From 1884-2006
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From a USGS Announcement: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project (HQSP) is in the process of releasing all editions and all scales of more than 200,000 historic topographic maps of the United States dating from 1884-2006. For more than 130 years, the USGS topographic mapping program has accurately portrayed the complex geography […]
Digitization Project: Boston Television News Digital Archive (Material from 1959 to 2000)
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Reports, Resources, Special Libraries
|From a Boston Globe Article: Poring through the tapes and films stored in the archives vault at WGBH is like taking a tour of Boston history as it was captured on TV news broadcasts: Fidel Castro visits Boston in 1959; Martin Luther King Jr. marches in Roxbury in 1965; Barack Obama protests outside Harvard University […]
From a LeMonde Article (In French, Mechanical Translation via Google): The National Library of France announced Wednesday, July 6, launching an appeal to private partners for the digitization and enhancement of its collections. “Today is a historic step,” said President BNF, Bruno Racine , during a joint press conference in Paris with the Minister of […]