MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
From the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Web Site: JTA has launched a digital archive containing 250,000 articles dating from 1923. The JTA Jewish News Archive, which is searchable and free for the public to use, was launched officially Tuesday evening with a celebration at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Highlights of the […]
New Report from OCLC Research: "Rapid Capture: Faster Throughput in Digitization of Special Collections"
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|Title: “Rapid Capture: Faster Throughput in Digitization of Special Collections” Author: Ricky Erway, Senior Program Officer OCLC Research From OCLC Research: This report provides examples of how to simplify and streamline digital capture of non-book collections. Nine case studies illustrate processes and procedures institutions have adopted to speed up digitization of special collections. The intent […]
U.S. Holocuast Museum & Ancestry.com Announce Launch of Project to Create World's Largest Online Resource About Victims of Holocaust and Nazi Persocution
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|Note: Two other recent Holocaust projects are linked at the bottom of this post. Btw, this is yet another example of a resource that will be built with the help of crowdsourcing. From a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Announcement: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com today announced the launch of the World Memory Project, […]
Digitization Projects: "UCLA Will Catalog a Noted Conservationist's Collection"
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|From an LA Times Article: Considered to be the mother of the California Coastal Zone Conservation Act of 1972, Ellen Stern Harris was an environmental activist long before the avocation became fashionable. The school plans to digitize her vast and chaotic archive to make it available online to scholars and others. [Clip] “The UCLA Library […]
New Online Digital Archive: "JDC Releases Over 500,000 Searchable Holocaust-Era Names And Historic Photo Collections"
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|UPDATED (10/17/2012) Miles of Documents Online (via WSJ) Since the documents went online, people have used the collection to discover relatives they thought had died during World War II had actually survived, and the family members reunited, said Linda Levi, the archive director at the JDC. “This accessibility is critical,” she said, noting that similar […]
Digitization: "Online Archive Preserves Images from Christian Missions in Africa, Asia"
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|From a the Text of a VOA Report: An ambitious Internet project is bringing to light forgotten images from Africa, Asia, and other parts of the world during the period when missionaries were active. The International Mission Photography Archive contains more than 60,000 historic photographs that show cultural interaction – through missionaries – with the […]
New: Westchester County (New York) Launches Online Digital Archives
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|From Westchester.com: More than 9,000 historical photographs and maps stored in archival vaults have been digitized and placed online as part of the newly launched Westchester County Archives’ Digital Collections. “Every aspect of government needs to be continually improving,” said County Executive Robert P. Astorino. “This digitization project is an example of how technology can […]
"Google Can't Be Trusted With Our Books"
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|From an Article by Simon Barron in The Guardian: Google announced last week that it would be deleting the content of the Google Videos archive. After a public outcry, it said it would work on saving all the video content and making it available elsewhere. In this instance, the public managed to change Google’s mind […]
HathiTrust: Audio/Video/Slides From Two Recent Presentations By Members of the HathiTrust Team Now Online
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|Presentation No. 1: Lunch and Learn: John Wilkin, Jon Stroop, and Marvin Bielawski on HathiTrust (Princeton U.) Title: “What is HathiTrust and How Can it Make a Difference? Direct to Slides ||| Direct to Audio From a Summary Article: John Wilkin at the University of Michigan, and Jon Stroop & Marvin Bielawski at […]
New Article: "HathiTrust: A Research Library at Web Scale"
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|This 10 page (PDF) article was written Heather Christenson, Project Manager-Mass Digitization at the California Digital Library in Oakland. This is a wonderful intro/review about all things HathiTrust. From the Abstract: Research libraries have a mission to build collections that will meet the research needs of their user communities over time, to curate these collections […]