MORE 'DIGITIZATION' POSTS
France Passes New Laws on the "Digital Exploitation of 20th Century Unavailable Books"
Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Publishing
|The Global Legal Monitor from the Library of Congress provides a summary of the recently passed legislation but writer/tweeter @BlankTextField (based in France) says the article include a few inaccuracies. From the Global Legal Monitor This Law adds a new chapter to the French Intellectual Property Code, comprising articles L.134-1 to L.134-9. Article L. 134-1 […]
Baltimore: Walters Art Museum Receives $265,000 NEH Grant to Help Digitize Medieval Manuscripts
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From The Baltimore Sun: Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum has received a $265,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to put toward digitizing its collection of medieval manuscripts and making it available, via computer, to the general public. The three-year project, “Imaging the Hours: Creating a Digital Resource of Flemish Manuscripts,” includes 113 illustrated manuscripts, encompassing […]
The European Library's Opening to Research Libraries
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, National Libraries, Resources
|From a Europeana Blog Post: The European Library is approaching the end of its two-year project Europeana Libraries, by which it started to expand its membership from national libraries to include research libraries in Europe. As the project draws to a close, The European Library will start to put its business plan into action. The […]
Video: Crowd Sourcing Metadata (Briefing Session from CNI Fall 2011 Meeting)
Data Files, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources, Video Recordings
|The video is of a presentation by Barbara Taranto, Digital Program Director, New York Public Library, at the CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Fall 2011 Membership Meeting held in Arlington, VA. The video was recorded on December 12, 2011 and made available on March 26, 2012. Direct to Video (via YouTube) Runs about 38 minutes. […]
Digitization Projects: Smithsonian Institution Archives Receives a Smithsonian Women’s Committee Grant to Support the Digitization of Scientific Field Books
Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Preservation, Funding, Journal Articles, News, Preservation
|From the News Release (PDF) The Smithsonian Institution Archives received a grant of $22,000 from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee (SWC). The award will fund two graduate paper conservation interns and two digitization interns who will work during summer 2012 to conserve and digitize original 19th and early 20th century scientific field expedition notebooks located at […]
Update: Digitizing the Long Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interviews, Libraries, Resources
|From the University of North Carolina Library: Six months ago, the digital production centers at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University began scanning more than 35 archival collections related to the long civil rights movement—a substantial undertaking by the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN). Drawing on collections from Duke University, North Carolina Central University, North […]
Announcing DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europena): Exploring the Possibilities of Linked Open Data in Cultural heritage
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News
|From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: The Open Knowledge Foundation is delighted to announce that it will be leading the community work for a three-year EU funded project entitled Digitised Manuscripts to Europena (DM2E). The project consortium, which includes academic institutions, NGOs and commercial partners, will be led by Professor Stefan Gradmann at the Humboldt […]
Article: "Out of the Classroom and Into the Laboratory: Teaching Digital Curation Virtually and Experientially"
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, News, Preservation
|Title Out of the Classroom and Into the Laboratory: Teaching Digital Curation Virtually and Experientially Authors Ross Harvey Simmons College Jeannette A. Bastian Simmons College Source IFLA Journal (March 2012, Vol 38 No 1) PDF Abstract As graduate LIS/IS education seeks to respond to intensifying virtual information and preservation environments, it becomes increasingly clear that […]
New: Guidelines for Digital Preservation for Digital Reproductions
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Preservation
|via Collections Link: As part of the Digitising Contemporary Art initiative, the Netherlands Media Art Institute has produced a comprehensive guideline to developing and implementing strategies for the long-term preservation of digital assets and their associated metadata. The resources are available free of charge, and provide excellent and practical guidance for archives and cultural institutions […]
From a National Gallery of Art (NGA) Announcement: The National Gallery of Art announces the launch today of NGA Images, a new online resource that revolutionizes the way the public may interact with its world-class collection at http://images.nga.gov. This repository of digital images documenting the National Gallery of Art collections allows users to search, browse, […]