MORE POSTS FROM DECEMBER 2017
New Zealand: “Outdated Tech Trove Keeps Digital Archives Alive”
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, News, Preservation
|From Radio New Zealand: Senior advisor digital preservation’ as a job title sounds a little prosaic, but hidden away in Mick Crouch’s office at Archives New Zealand is a veritable Aladdin’s cave of technology going back several decades. Government records have to be transferred to archives after 25 years, and while that is fine for […]
From the University of Michigan: An international research team has assembled the first complete list of all known vascular plant species in the Americas. The searchable database contains nearly 125,000 species representing one-third of all known vascular plants worldwide. Vascular plants are land plants with specialized internal-transport and vertical-support tissues. The vast majority of plant […]
New Online Resource: UC Davis Library Creates Wine Price Database With Crowdsourcing, Famed Catalogs
|From the UC Davis Launch Announcement: Recommendations for “best buys” in Champagnes and party menus from some 50 years ago are among the treats in a new crowdsourcing database of historic wine prices from the University of California, Davis. Price the Vintage, with more than 200 digitized catalogs of famed New York-based distributor Sherry-Lehmann, is the […]
From SN: Syed Hasan, President Global Sales, will be leaving Springer Nature at the end of January 2018 to take advantage of a sabbatical period and subsequently pursue new challenges outside of Springer Nature. Since 1998, Syed has held senior management sales roles within Springer and was appointed Global President STM Sales in 2009. In […]
New Journal Article: “Metadata Provenance and Vulnerability”
Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
|The following article was recently published in Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL), a (Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) publication. Title Metadata Provenance and Vulnerability Authors Timothy Robert Hart Flinders University (Australia) Denise de Vries Flinders University (Australia) Source Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) Vol 36, No 4 (2017) doi: 10.6017/ital.v36i4.10146 Abstract The preservation of […]
From the National Diet Library (Japan’s National Library): On December 21, the National Diet Library (NDL) made approximately 300 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) available for streaming online. Examples of sound recordings: 『ジョスランの子守唄』…A recording of “Berceuse de Jocelyn” by the tenor Yoshie Fujiwara, who established The Fujiwara Opera, accompanied by the Milan Scala Orchestra […]
From the Checklist Document: One of the EIFL Open Access Programme goals for 2016 – 2017 was to enhance open access repositories in EIFL partner countries. This means ensuring that they work well together with other systems and platforms, and include new repository functionalities that make repositories more user-friendly and enable easier sharing of research […]
From Honolulu Civil Beat: Of the $120 million Gov. David Ige proposes to spend on capital projects at the University of Hawaii in his supplemental budget request, $20 million would go toward renovating and modernizing a 60-year-old library on the Manoa campus. With its expansive first-floor foyer brightly lit by tall jalousie windows, and its worn pleather armchairs […]
News Roundup
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Roundup
|1. Legislation: Museum and Library Services Act (S. 2271) of 2017 Introduced in U.S. Senate ||| Comment/Analysis From ALA ||| Read/Track the Legislation (via GovTrack.us) ||| Read/Track the Legislation (via Congress.gov) 2. Video: SSRN Posts 2017 Year-End Review 3. Results of ORCiD Board Elections Announced 4. Rhode Island: State Cannot Access Years of Government Emails […]
2017: Year End Lists and Rankings Roundup
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing, Roundup
|Altmetrics Altmetric Top 100 2017 Released, Dataset Also Available to Download Digital Collections EU: Top 20 Searches on Europeana During 2017 NC: 2017’s Most Popular Items On DigitalNC Libraries (Most Borrowed Books and Other Materials) BC: Most Borrowed Items: Vancouver Public Library (via CBC) CA: Top Library Checkouts in 2017: San Diego County Library CO: Most Borrowed […]