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"Getty Launches Expanded Search Function on its Website"
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|From a Getty Announcement: The Getty recently unveiled a newly expanded search function on its website that will allow scholars, researchers, and the interested public to better access the Getty’s vast resources of information about the visual arts. The Getty Search Gateway, which is now available online, provides streamlined searches through the Museum’s collections and […]
Web Preservation, URLs: "Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento"
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|Authors: Robert Sanderson; Mark Edward Phillips; and Herbert Van de Sompel From an Abstract: In this paper, the authors present the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Two repositories with different characteristics, arXiv and the UNT digital library, are studied to determine if […]
The August Issue of the NDIIPP Digital Preservation Newsletter is Now Online
Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Resources
|Direct to Newsletter (2 pages; PDF) Articles in this Issue Include: Making It Work: A recap of the July 2011 NDSA/NDIIPP Partners Meeting A compilation of blog posts on “The Signal” about Library of Congress web archiving projects, processes and data management A summary of the Uniform Law Commission’s approval of the Uniform Electronic Legal […]
"Is Vogue planning a 119-year digital archive?"
Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Publishing
|From the Los Angeles Times: Does Vogue magazine have a digital archive in the works — one would stretch all the way back to its original 1892 issue? Rumors say that’s exactly what the long-lived fashion magazine is up to. The blog Fashionista reads the tea leaves: Vogue editor Anna Wintour attending the Webbys in […]
"IBM Develops Full-Text Digitization System for National Diet Library of Japan"
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From an IBM Announcement: The prototype technology, created by IBM Research, allows full-text digitization of Japanese literature to be quickly realized through expansive recognition of Japanese characters and enabling users to collaboratively review and correct language characters, script and structure. Additionally, the full-text digitization system is designed to promote future international collaborations and standardization of […]
A Look at the Rare Books Collection at the National Library of Singapore
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News
|From TODAYonline: High above Singapore’s Central Business District, there is a secret room. With virtual anonymity it stands over the heads of the unsuspecting public below, preoccupied as they pound up and down the busy streets. I scan a bustling Victoria Street but none of the office workers who race past the futuristic National Library […]
Digitization Projects: "Boston College Libraries Publish Digital Edition of W.B. Yeats' First Play 'Love and Death'"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, Scholarly Communications
|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 […]
Two Articles From New Issue IFLA's IT Div. Newsletter: "RFID—the Successor of the Barcode" & "Re-inventing the OPAC as a metadata hub"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, New Issue, News
|The Following Articles Appear in the July 2011 Issue of the IFLA Information Technology Section Newsletter. Direct to Complete Issue (12 Pages; PDF) 1. “RFID—the Successor of the Barcode” (Found of Page 5 of PDF) by Leif Andresen A smooth and straightforward check-in/check-out process for books is key to the library business, and RFID can […]
"Looking for Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment" In New Issue (July, 2011) of Ariadne
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, New Issue, Open Access, Reports
|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 […]
"Europe’s Movie Heritage Now Captured Forever Online"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From SiliconRepublic: A new EU-supported internet portal to the digital collections of European film archives including rare Marlene Dietrich footage and which offers free access to currently about 400,000 digital videos, photos, film posters and text materials has just gone live. By September, the number of digital items available on the European Film Gateway (EFG) […]