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HathiTrust Announces New Board of Governors
Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Jobs, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation
|From MLibrary News: HathiTrust is announcing the composition of its new 12-member Board of Governors, which will lead the library collaborative into its next phase. The board, which replaces the Executive Committee that was established by the founding members in 2008, will oversee HathiTrust’s 10-million volume digital preservation repository, research center, and other initiatives. The […]
Reminder: Preservation Week Begins on April 21st
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|ALA sent out a reminder news release today about Preservation Week that begins on April 21st. Preservation Week is sponsored by an number of organizations including ALCTS, LC, IMLS, SAA, AIC, and American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. From April 22-28, libraries across America will celebrate Preservation Week @ your library. Themed […]
From a NLNZ Blog Post: Through a combination of Legal Deposit and actively seeking out New Zealand music across the internet, we are rapidly accumulating a huge collection of great tunes, which we are preserving for posterity in our National Digital Heritage Archive. Even better, an increasing number of artists are giving us permission to […]
Paper — The Metadata Coverage Index (MCI): A Standardized Metric for Quantifying Database Annotation Richness
Data Files, Journal Articles, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Resources
|The Metadata Coverage Index (MCI): A Standardized Metric for Quantifying Database Annotation Richness Variability in the extent of the descriptions of data (metadata) held in public repositories forces users to assess the quality of records individually, which rapidly becomes impractical. The automatic scoring of records on the richness of their description enables sorting by quality. […]
via Times Higher Education: The Wellcome Trust has reacted to Research Councils UK’s beefed-up open-access proposals by indicating that it will get “much tougher” on compliance with its own mandate. The giant biomedical charity already requires papers produced with Wellcome funding to be made open access within six months of publication, which is the period […]
Roundup: News from OCLC, Washington University Libraries, EBSCO, & PLOS
EBSCO, Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Publishing, Roundup
|Gene Oliver promoted to Vice President, OCLC Global Systems and Information Technology Washington University Libraries introduce Open Scholarship repository EBSCO Discovery Service Expands German Content with WTI – Frankfurt Agreement Announcing PLoS Currents: Disasters
From the EPSIplaform Site: Wikidata is a proposed new project for the Wikimedia Foundation: a free, collaborative, multi-lingual, secondary database, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other Wikimedia projects, and beyond that. (Excerpt of Wikidata introduction page) Wikidata, the project web page states, “aims to create a free knowledge base […]
Rutgers University: Librarians Create Digital Portal of International Posters That Trace the History of Women’s Activism
Associations and Organizations, Awards, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access, Resources
|From a Rutgers U. News Release: What was once a loose collection of 300 rolled-up and yellowing posters in an office of Rutgers’ Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) is now an award-winning digital portal offering insight into decades of women’s activism throughout the world. The vibrantly colored posters, newly available through RUCore, a Rutgers-based […]
From the Houghton Library Blog: An exciting array of materials have recently been digitized at Houghton. They include manuscript material from Joanna Baillie, George Eliot, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Percy Shelley, Robert Southey, Alfred Tennyson, Hester Thrale and George Washington. A 15th century breviary and Belgian incunable, multiple musical scores, cartoons, broadsides and more may […]
Video: Semantic Technologies & Linked Data for Digitized Collections
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|Video of METRO Event Semantic Technologies & Linked Data for Digitized Collections The presentation took place on March 7, 2012 during a meeting of the METRO Digitization Special Interest Group Co-Conveners Cynthia Tobar, CUNY Graduate Center Leah Loscutoff, Brooklyn Historical Society Speakers Ben Vershbow, Manager, NYPL Labs Doug Reside, Digital Curator of Performing Arts, NYPL […]