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e-Research and the Ubiquitious Open Grid Digital Libraries of the Future (Dlist)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:02:09 GMT

Patkar, Vivek and Chandra, Smita (2006) e-Research and the Ubiquitious Open Grid Digital Libraries of the Future. In Proceedings WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS: 72ND IFLA GENERAL CONFERENCE AND COUNCIL, Seoul, Korea.

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codex sinaiticus digitization project (the stuff of earth)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:34:00 GMT

Be sure to watch this site tomorrow, July 24, 2008: Codex Sinaiticus Project . That's when and where the first online phase of an ongoing project to digitize one of the world's most important books will be launched. Codex Sinaiticus is a 1600-year old Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. The project is jointly coordinated by the British Library , the Institute for...

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UK: British Library revamps network for digitisation work (Resource Shelf)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:43:05 GMT

From the article: The UK’s national library is using a new Ethernet networking infrastructure as the basis for a number of projects to digitise huge amounts of content and to consolidate its data centre using virtualisation. The British Library needed to find more reliable and cost-efficient ways to network its two sites in London’s St Pancras and [...]

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National Film Board on the Missing Canadian Digitization Strategy (Michael Geist's Blog)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:13:03 GMT

In its submission to the CRTC New Media consultation, the National Film Board of Canada warns: Canada today finds itself years behind other countries in developing a clearly focused and effective digitization strategy. The United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and China have already established digitization strategies that feature robust programs and ambitious...

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Google Books expands its non-English resources (British Journal of Pharmacology)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:21:17 GMT

Published online 23 July 2008 | Nature 454, 381 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454381d News in BriefGoogle Books expands its non-English resourcesDigital libraries often rely on English text.J. SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGESThe municipal library of Lyon, which holds France's second largest collection of books, going back centuries, has become the first French library to join forces with Google.The Google Books Library...

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The Long and Short of the Tail (SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:25:32 GMT

Mark Borkowski submits: Online retailing and the digitization of information goods have changed the commercial environment: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through endless options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is now low. These conclusions come from “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More”, authored by Chris...

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TASI Updates Numerous Digitization Advice Documents (DigitalKoans)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:57:43 GMT

The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) has updated a number of digitization advice documents.

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European Commission want digibieb (Microweb News)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:14:12 GMT

As well the as audio-visual European cultural inheritance' 'written must be taken up in the digital library, writes the Commission on her site. Each citizen must get entry for their study, going out time or work. Until end of Januaries European politicians can give their [...]

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The world's oldest Bible, and other treasures... ( David Llewellyn)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:25:19 GMT

The announcement that the University of Leipzig and the British Library are launching the first part of their digitisation of the Codex Sinaiticus this week is exciting but doesn't really tell half the story. The library at St Cather...

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Rwanda: Karisimbi Project Set to Go Digital Next Year (All Africa)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:23:44 GMT

Rwanda's Karisimbi tower project is set to go digital by March next year, the coordinator has revealed. Digitisation is the process of converting information into a digital format.

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Copyright restriction (Mike Linksvayer)

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:50:44 GMT

Ethan Zuckerman writes: Under US law, pretty much anything you write down is copyrighted. Scrawl an original note on a napkin and it’s protected until 70 years after your death. Note: None of this post should be taken as criticism of Zuckerman. I’m just using his sentence as a foil. He is a great blogger, the above [...]

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Journal of Digital Information (Slaw)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:46:25 GMT

The Texas Digital Library, a consortium of Texas universities, publishes the open access Journal of Digital Information. The contents of the curent issue (Vol 9, No 27 (2008)) will give you an idea of its scope, if you’re not already familiar with the publication: Developing and Sustaining the Northwest Digital Archives, by Alan Kevin Cornish and [...]

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Texas Digital Library Hosts Second E-Journal (DigitalKoans)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:30:30 GMT

The Texas Digital Library is hosting the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. The first issue is now available. Articles in the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research are freely available in the PDF format, and they are under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. The journal is edited by Jeremiah Spence, a doctoral student [...]

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Google to digitise 500,000 books in the 'Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon' (SEOCentro - SEO News)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:09:48 GMT

Abondance brings us further news of the Google book publishing initiative which sees Lyon , France's second most important city (sorry Marseilles), jumping the gun on Paris and cooperating with Google. The digitisation will involve those books which are out of copyright. The library houses an important collection of books in the French language and some rare editions from authors such...

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NARA and the World Digital Library (Tracing the Tribe)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:00:00 GMT

The World Digital Library is a free website to be launched in 2009. It will feature multi-lingual primary source materials from international cultural institutions. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has become a founding partner in the new entity, announced Archivist of the US Allen Weinstein and Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. NARA will contribute digital...

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Repurposing Metadata (Open Libraries)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:00:47 GMT

As the Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting has become a central component of digital library projects, increased attention has been paid to the ways metadata can be reused. As every computer project since the beginning of time has had occasion to understand, the data available for harvesting is only as good as the data entered. Given these quality issues, there are...

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Event: 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (Digitization 101)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:58:00 GMT

From the Digital-Preservation email list. 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 14-19 2008, Aarhus, Denmark The program for ECDL 2008 is available and can be found at: www.ecdl2008.org . The conference takes place September 14-19 2008 in Aarhus, Denmark. We want to point your attention to the deadline for early registration...

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Scan and Deliver (Resource Shelf)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:17:20 GMT

From the article: The biggest challenge of all in the British Library’s vast digitisation programme has been copyright clearance, as Tracey Caldwell explains Source: IWR

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Truth Commissions Digital Collection (Resource Shelf)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:58:10 GMT

Truth Commissions Digital Collection The Truth Commissions Digital Collection, part of the Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management, is a collection constantly under development by the Jeannette Rankin Library Program, containing decrees establishing truth commissions and similar bodies of inquiry worldwide, and the reports issued...

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Library of Congress, National Archives Form World Digital Library Partnership (Resource Shelf)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:00:43 GMT

From the news release: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein announced today that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will became a founding partner in the World Digital Library (WDL). NARA will contribute digital versions of important documents from its collections to the WDL, which will be launched [...]...

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