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From the Google Blog and Google Code Blog: A digital interface needs to be familiar enough to be intuitive, while simultaneously taking advantage of the lack of constraints in a virtual space. In this case, we imagined something that looks like the shelves in your living room, but is also capable of showcasing the huge […]
Cornell University: Library Digitization Projects Span Multiple Millennia (From 17th C. Japanese Woodblocks to Hip Hop)
Academic Libraries, Awards, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, News
|From the Cornell Chronicle: Cornell University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences have awarded six new grants to create new digital content of enduring value. Treasures ranging from Bronx-born hip-hop posters to ancient Greek and Roman coins will hit the Web in the near future as part of the Grants Program for Digital […]
From Aham Online (via Twitter): When British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie came to Egypt in 1883 he explored several archaeological sites and revealed some of the country’s ancient history. According to Egyptian law at the time, archaeological dig sponsors had full rights to half of finds, while Egypt retained the other half. Half a century after […]
From Construction.com: Following in the well-trod path of Match.com and other online dating services, the American Institute of Architects thinks it has found a way to attract investors to the thousands of industry projects put on hold—send the potential suitors to cyberspace for a database of the good-lookers. That is, the AIA is compiling a […]
List of additions follows. More detailed information about titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from the Archive Collections page. American Secondary Education (Arts & Sciences X) http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amersecedu Coverage: Vol. 1, No. 1 (December, 1970)–Vol. 34, No. 1 (Fall, 2005) Moving Wall: 5 years Publisher: Dwight Schar College of Education, Ashland University […]
From Deal Book (NY Times): Mary Meeker, a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner, released her latest report on “Internet Trends” on Tuesday. The 66-page report, distributed in conjunction with her appearance at a technology conference in San Francisco, touched on the rise of China, the vast potential of the smartphone market, the migration of […]
Oracle Buys Endeca
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries
|From an Oracle News Release: On October 18, 2011, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca, a leading provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of 2011. After the transaction closes, […]
Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Research, talks with Eric Enge from Stone Temple. Excellent read. Here’s a bit from the intro of the interview. Enge Writes: As you will see in the transcript below, this discussion focused on the use of artificial intelligence algorithms in search. Peter outlines for us the approach used by Google […]
From UN Pulse: The Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Kiyo Akasaka, is pleased to announce the launch of the new, multilingual DPI website, which can be found at http://www.un.org/en/hq/dpi. As news sources proliferate, stories “go viral” on social media and user-generated content spreads instantly around the world, public information and communication are ever more […]
Wired Campus: Research Librarians Consider the Risks and Rewards of Collaboration
Libraries, Maps, News, Open Access, Preservation, Public Libraries
|By Jennifer Howard via Wired Campus/COHE: From the Article: Big-scale collaborations and digital-era collection strategies took center stage at the Association of Research Libraries’ membership meeting, held here last week. The library directors and others who attended heard about ambitious research and preservation projects like the HathiTrust digital repository and the proposed Digital Public Library […]