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From an Ordnance Survey Announcement (via GISUser.com) 100 stunning aerial images which form part of an extraordinary outdoor exhibition can now be viewed on a new interactive map created using Ordnance Survey data. In September 2010 Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) officially opened the Britain from the Air street gallery […]
Articles From Volume 16, Number 3 – 7 March 2011 Tweeting about TV: Sharing television viewing experiences via social media message streams Abstract HTML D. Yvette Wohn, Eun-Kyung Na Multimedia, interactive and hypertextual features in divergent online news platforms: An exploratory study of Flemish online news Abstract HTML Michael Opgenhaffen FYI: TMI: Toward […]
Michigan State University: "Library Digitizes to Widen Availability"
| Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
From an Article Appearing in The State News (Student Run Paper): What began as a project to digitize a collection of Chicago Tribune newspapers in 2009 has expanded to provide a resource of thousands of digitized pages of books and publications for MSU Libraries. The purchase of an advanced scanner jump-started the process of digitization […]
From a Virginia Historical Society News Release: The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) recently received a $100,000 grant from Dominion Resources and The Dominion Foundation to fund the creation of Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names. This free, online database will contain personal information about enslaved Virginians gleaned from some of the more […]
From the Map Hompage: OCHA, UNOSAT and NetHope have been collaborating with the Volunteer Technical Community (VTC) specifically CrisisMappers, Crisis Commons, Open Street Map, and the Google Crisis Response Team over the past week. The CrisisMappers Standby Task Force has been undertaking a mapping of social media, news reports and official situation reports from within […]
From a PSFK Post: Imagine every single book ever written being translated into a series of QR codes that would allow users to immediately download the stories to their devices in 800 word segments. That is exactly what Books2Barcodes, an initiative created by humor blog Wonder Tonic, plans to do. Beginning with several classics which […]
Audio: "Should the Library of Congress Become a National Digital Hard-Drive?"
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Preservation
Jeff Young from The Chronicle of Higher Education talks with Martha Anderson the director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIPP) at the Library of Congress. From a Text Blurb: The nation’s library now archives all public Twitter messages – what’s next? The Tech Therapy team talks with Martha Anderson, director of […]
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From The Earth Times The Smithsonian has collected over 202,000 striking images from wildlife researchers around the globe in a new publicly accessible collection. Faced with shy and elusive creatures in the field, scientists use camera traps to observe their subjects. These traps – hidden cameras triggered by motion sensors offer scientists the chance to […]
NARA: National Archives Releases 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report
| Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
From a NARA News Release: The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announces the release of the 2010 Records Management Self-Assessment Report. In May 2010, NARA issued the mandatory annual records management self-assessment (RMSA) to Federal agencies. This followed the pilot self-assessment that was completed in 2009. The goal of the self-assessment is to determine […]
