MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2017
From the National Archives and Records Administration “Records Express” Blog: Have you ever wondered about the relationship between NARA’s metadata guidance, open data, and the common-core metadata schema for data.gov? In this post, we provide an overview of these three pieces of guidance and how they work together. [Clip] NARA’s mission differs from Project Open […]
New online is a Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative webinar presentation recorded on April 21, 2017 by Distinguished Professor Dr. Christine Borgman & Ph. D Candidate Irene Pasquetto, of UCLA Informatics Studies titled, “Why Data Sharing & Reuse Are Hard To Do?” Webinar Abstract Researchers are producing an unprecedented amount of data by using new […]
From KPBS: The San Diego Unified Board of Education will vote Tuesday on whether to send some 200 additional pink slips to staff, bringing the total number of potential layoffs next year to about 1,700. The latest proposal would all but decimate the district’s already anemic library system. It would lay off all library technicians […]
From the Center for Nonproliferation Studies Since 2014, North Korea has dramatically altered its missile testing patterns, launching missiles much more frequently and from a variety of new locations. Recognizing the importance of understanding the proliferation implications of these patterns, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) has created a database of every known […]
Community-Driven Archives Project at Wilson Special Collections Library (UNC-CH) Receives $877,000 Mellon Grant
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|From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received an $877,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which will allow the Southern Historical Collection (SHC) at the Wilson Special Collections Library to further develop its transformative model for “community-driven archives.” In addition to several […]
From the Center for an Urban Future: CUF’s third annual assessment of library hours compares New York City’s public libraries with library systems in the nation’s ten largest cities and New York State’s ten largest counties. Although New York City’s branch libraries are now open significantly more hours per week than at any point in the […]
1. CLOCKSS Announces the Support of Five Additional Publishers and Six Libraries 3. Library Facts: What Were the Top 50 GALILEO Searches (U. of Georgia System) for March 2017? 3. IBM Begins Offering Watson Technology to “Unlock Insights from Video in the Cloud” 4. Penn Press Ebooks in the Penn Libraries (via PennLibNews)
From a Booknet Canada by Pamela Miller: The data we were asked to provide had to do with the sales volume of LGBT books over time. So we identified those books using their BISAC subject headings and looked at the last seven years of data. While there are LGBT BISAC codes for Young Adult (YA) and […]
1961-1970 material was released on govinfo today. From the Government Publications Office (GPO): This release covers debates and proceedings of the 87th through the 91st Congresses. Spanning approximately 380,000 Congressional Record pages, this era covers historical topics such as: The Administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the first two years of […]
Note: If you can’t make it to the event listed below it will streamed live and also recorded. Innovating Communication in Scholarship, a UC Davis IFHA project invites you to: AN OPEN DIGITAL SOUTH: RISKS AND REWARDS Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 9:00 AM PDT – to – Friday, May 26, 2017 at 3:00 PM […]