MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
"BoxOffice" Continues to Expand Its Free Digital Archive of Archived Issues; Nearly 3000 Issues of the Film Industry Trade Pub Available
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Publishing, Reports, Resources
|Curt Hopkins at ReadWriteWeb reports that BoxOffice, one of the film industry’s long time trade publications, currently provides an archive back 91 years with about 3,000 digitized issues online and more are being added weekly. Access is free. From the Article: BoxOffice has been publishing movie news since its beginning in 1920 and continues today. […]
A Public Library In Indiana Adds Microsoft Tags To About 20,000 Bibliographic Records
Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
|The tagging was done at the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library using Microsoft Tags (similar to QR codes). Here’s one small portion of an email interview by Microsoft’s Holly Richmond with EVPL Library Webmaster Josh Weiland and Community Relations & Development Officer Amy Mangold. The interview appears on the Microsoft Tag Blog. Tag (Holly Richmond): It […]
Ohio history is hot! This is the third post in the past week having something to do with the topic Today’s News From the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Cleveland Historical app, [was] formally launched [Thursday] by the Department of History at Cleveland State University, so far contains 400 oral histories, 60 videos and more than […]
Link Rot Stats Using Pinboard Bookmarks
Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Preservation, Reports
|Maciej Ceglowski is the founder of the wonderful, superb, and totally useful Pinboard social (if you want to be) bookmarking service that expressed a lot of love towards the library world last Christmas. In a post on the Pinpup blog Maciej Ceglowski uses a sampling bookmarks from the Pinboard site to take a look at […]
The literature review was prepared specifically for the UK Higher Ed. community. However, for those outside of the UK we think the documents will be of interest to you. All of the sources used to prepare the forecast as well as a few other documents are available. From JISC: This report is a summary of […]
"Google Archive Decision 'Astonishing'" Says Founder of ColdNorthWind and PaperofRecord.com
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Resources
|From an Article by Vito Pilieci, Ottawa Citizen: “It’s disappointing, especially when you consider what I thought that this would do,” said Bob Huggins, former chief executive officer and cofounder of PaperOfRecord. com, which Google bought in 2008. He called Google’s decision to abandon the initiative “astonishing.” PaperofRecord.com, formerly called Cold North Wind, was founded […]
A Joint Publication from the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Digital Curation Centre Included in This Issue What’s on, and What’s new Editorial: The Evolution of Research Data Policy – where are all the requirements leading? (Sarah Jones, HATII) One world: A Glance at Digital Preservation in Sweden (John Lindström & Prof Lennart Karlsson, Luleå […]
From The London Evening Standard: Details of England‘s national heritage from protected shipwrecks to listed lamp-posts are being made easily available to the public for the first time with a new online database. English Heritage today [Monday] launched the National Heritage List for England which it claimed was “a significant milestone towards achieving better understanding […]
The 3.7 million page total was announced via the Chronicling America RSS feed the other day. It also said that 230,000 newspaper pages in various titles were just added to CA. Current Chronicling America Database Totals: “The site now provides access to more than 3.7 million searchable newspaper pages from 506 newspaper titles, published in […]
Newspaper Digitization: "Ohio Historical Society Receives National Grant to Preserve Historic Ohio Newspapers"
Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources
|From the Urbana Daily Citizen: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has given $334,000 to the Ohio Historical Society to continue its digitization of Ohio’s microfilmed newspapers. The National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio, a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program developed by NEH and the Library of Congress, will digitize 26 Ohio […]