MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
New: Westchester County (New York) Launches Online Digital Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Management and Leadership, Maps, Patrons and Users, Resources
|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"
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|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
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries
|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"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access
|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 […]
BnF (National Library of France) Signs Deal With Jouve to Digitize 70,000 Books a Year
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Publishing
|From a News Release: The Jouve Group will work in partnership with Safig, Diadéis and the subcontractor BancTec, to digitize more than 70,000 works per year [it’s a three year deal] of which around 70% will come from the print collections of the BnF and 30% from the collections of partner libraries. Financed by the […]
"With Google Settlement in Limbo, Universities Press Ahead With Research on Digitized Books"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|From a Chronicle of Higher Ed. Report by Marc Perry: With the Google project in legal limbo, Indiana University and the University of Illinois are moving forward with plans to set up a similar research center [HathiTrust Research Center for Computational Access to Archives] built around the archive maintained by the HathiTrust Digital Library, which […]
Canada: A New Digital Collection: IslandArchives.ca From U. of Prince Edward Island
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Maps, Resources
|This resource was officially launched on April 18, 2011. Direct to the IslandArchives.ca From the About Page: The Island Archives Centre will protect and offer access to all of PEI’s contributions to our local and national heritage via a digital context infinitely more useful than that provided by traditional tools. Contributions to the “official word” […]
Indiana U. & U. of Illinois Launch HathiTrust Research Center for Computational Access to Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From an Indiana University Announcement: A new collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Repository, will help to meet this challenge by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. The HathiTrust Research […]
University of California Will Use WorldCat Local As Next Gen Melvyl Infrastructure
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Reports
|From a California Digital Library Blog Post by Ellen Meltzer: With the endorsement of the University Librarians, UCLA purchasing is now processing the paperwork to procure WorldCat Local (WCL) as the infrastructure for Next Generation Melvyl; once finished, Melvyl @ University of California will become UC’s official Melvyl discovery and access service. The decision was […]
Two New Reports Look at Web Archive Development and Tools
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Reports
|Direct to California Digital Library Web Archiving Service (WAS) From a California Digital Library Blog Post by Tracy Seneca: Chris Prom provides a Web Archiving Service Evaluation in his Practical E-Records blog using a range of criteria such as usability, scalability, license, support and many others. This is a well-rounded look at the service addressing […]