MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Videos from the Library of Congress: Archiving Digital Audio and Photos
Digital Preservation, Libraries, Preservation, Resources, Video Recordings
|Direct to Web Page and Video (via YouTube) On May 10, 2010, the Library of Congress held Personal Archiving Day in conjunction with the American Library Association’s annual Preservation Week. The Library invited members of the public to visit and learn about how to preserve their personal information in both digital and non-digital form. Library […]
Digitalkoot (Europe’s First National Crowdsourced Digitization Program) Breaks 25,000 participants
|From an Announcement: Europe’s first national e-program Digitalkoot (Digital Volunteers), launched by the National Library of Finland and Microtask, has broken the 25,000 visitors only after one month of launching. Digital volunteers from around the world have completed over 2 million individual tasks, totalling 100,000 minutes, or 1,700 hours, of work. [Clip] Digitalkoot is an […]
HathiTrust: "Pays to Share"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|From an Inside Higher Ed Article by Steve Kolowich: HathiTrust, a cooperative based at the University of Michigan, has taken steps to make sure that Google is not the only one putting together a comprehensive digital archive of academic library content. After only two and a half years, HathiTrust now counts more than 50 member […]
The March/April 2011 Issue of D-Lib is Now Online
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Scholastic, School Libraries
|D-Lib (Volume 17, Number 3/4) Direct to Table-of-Contents Articles Discovering the Information Needs of Humanists When Planning an Institutional Repository Article by David Seaman, Dartmouth College Library Abstract: Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository (IR) can address. It also asks […]
"Hebrew University's Einstein Archives To Go Online"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From an Article by Ben Hartman (Jerusalem Post): Albert Einstein will go digital in the coming months, as the Hebrew University of Jerusalem begins a project to digitize the German-Jewish physicist’s archives. The digitization is expected to take around one year and then the over 80,000 documents will be available on the Albert Einstein Archives […]
"Ontario's history goes digital"
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources
|From an Article in the Ottawa Citizen: An article about the Knowledge Ontario’s Community Digitization Project (CDP). The CDP is the result of a $15-million grant from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture to the Southern Ontario Library Services and Ontario Library Services North. The project began in August 2009 after Our Ontario, the […]
Just Released: International Journal of Digital Curation Vol 6, No 1
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Preservation
|Direct to Table of Contents and Links to Each Article Editorial Editorial Kevin Ashley Papers (Peer-reviewed) Born Broken: Fonts and Information Loss in Legacy Digital Documents Geoffrey Brown, Kam Woods Use and Impact of UK Research Data Centres Ellen Collins The Milieu and the MESSAGE: Talking to Researchers about Data Curation Issues in a Large […]
E-Journals: NLM Revises Indexing Policy for Medline; Seeks to Ensure Full Text Access Will Always Be Available For Indexed Articles
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing, Resources
|From the NLM Technical Bulletin: The revised NLM® MEDLINE® Policy on Indexing Electronic Journals is available at www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/policy/ejournals.html. This policy concerns electronic journals that are indexed in the MEDLINE/PubMed® database. The revised policy applies only to the MEDLINE indexing of electronic journals. As journal publishing evolves, the journal of record for many publications is the […]
From an LC Announcement: After a decade of action working to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations, the Library of Congress has released “Preserving Our Digital Heritage: The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation […]
Digitisation Projects: South Africa: Google to Help Digitise Madiba [Nelson Mandela] and Tutu Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, News, Resources
|From the Official News Release: Google has today announced a $1,25 million (ZAR 8,6 million rand) grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, housed at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials about the life and times of […]