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From the IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) Web Site: European picture agency organisation CEPIC has joined forces with standards body IPTC to produce the CEPIC/IPTC Image Metadata Handbook, which was launched on 20 May 2011 at the CEPIC Congress in Istanbul, Turkey. The Handbook, commissioned by CEPIC, is a PDF package of documents which includes […]
ILL and Doc Delivery Focus of June 2011 Issue of Research Library Issues (ARL, CNI, & SPARC0ILL and Doc Delivery Focus of June 2011 Issue of Research Library Issues (ARL, CNI, & SPARC)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|Here’s What You’ll Find in Issue 275. PDF versions of all articles/news/calendar are also available. Complete Table of Contents Complete Issue (PDF) Direct to Articles and News Report of the Task Force on International Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Practices White Paper: International Interlibrary Loan White Paper: US Law and International Interlibrary Loan White Paper: […]
From a Google Labs Blog Post: It all started with the flu. In 2008, we found that the activity of certain search terms are good indicators of actual flu activity. Based on this finding, we launched Google Flu Trends to provide timely estimates of flu activity in 28 countries. Since then, we’ve seen a number […]
Newspaper Digitization: "Ohio Historical Society Receives National Grant to Preserve Historic Ohio Newspapers"
Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Resources
|From the Urbana Daily Citizen: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has given $334,000 to the Ohio Historical Society to continue its digitization of Ohio’s microfilmed newspapers. The National Digital Newspaper Program in Ohio, a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program developed by NEH and the Library of Congress, will digitize 26 Ohio […]
New Online Database: Wall Street Journal Jet Tracker (Past Flights of Non-Commercial Aircraft)
Data Files, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, News
|Make sure to read all of the documentation before using the database. From a WSJ Article The Wall Street Journal filed several Freedom of Information Act requests with the Federal Aviation Administration for the entire Enhanced Traffic Management System database, which contains flight records for aircraft that flew in the U.S. under instrument flight rules. […]
So Long and Goodbye! Google Is Ending Newspaper Digitization Project
Archives and Special Collections, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
|Update (5/22): We’ve Added A Few Pieces of Info From the Letter Google Sent to Google Newspaper Digitization Partners. You’ll Find Them At the Bottom of this Entry. Google’s goal to digitize all of the world’s newspapers is ending. Matt McGee from SEL reports that after approximately 32 months after a formal launch announcement, Google […]
We’re long time admirers of Eszter Hargittai’s work around here and today we’re sharing a link to a preprint version of a paper that Hargittai co-authored with Eden Litt, a graduate student at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois. Title: New Research: “The Tweet Smell of Celebrity Success: Explaining Variation in Twitter Adoption among a Diverse Group of […]
Super Interesting! Author: Kristina M Doing-Harris*, BCompSci MA MS PhD; Qing Zeng-Treitler*, PhD Affiliation (Both Authors) University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States Source: Journal of Internet Medical Research (13.2, 2011) ABSTRACT Background: Consumer health vocabularies (CHVs) have been developed to aid consumer health informatics applications. This purpose is […]
1. “Clay Shirky at MLA ’11-On the Need for Health Sciences Librarians to Rock the Boat” by Marcus Banks Clay Shirky spoke at the Medical Library Association on Sunday (May 16th) and an excellent blog post provides a look at what Shirky had to say along with several comments from Mr, Banks. Hat Tip and […]
University of Michigan Libraries: MLibrary Begins "First Serious Effort" to Identify Orphan Works in HathiTrust
Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|From a University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office Announcement: The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). An unknown percentage of these are […]