LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Digital Preservation interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:53:07 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6722661.html?rssid=191 Task force formed by major digital funders, Library of Congress, UK’s JISC. (Source: Library Journal News) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:00:00 +0100 825574 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/the-march-2010-issue-of-the-digital-preservation-newsletter-is-now-available/ Articles in this Issue Includes (2 pages; PDF): * The Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter marks its second anniversary. Please take a 5 minute survey and tell us what you think about the Newsletter. * Profile of Digital Preservation Pioneer Robert Horton * New reports: The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has issued a final report, “Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet;” and The Preserving Digital Public Television Project has released the report, “Strategies for Sustainable Preservation of Born Digital Public Television”. * Members of the MetaArchive Cooperative published, “A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation.” * Read about a recent meeting of a project working to explore enhanced access to legislative digital records * The National Endowment for the Humanities offers Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions * Leslie Johnston joins the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program * Upcoming March Events: the Library of Congress at South by Southwest Music and Media Conference; National Institute of Standards and Technology holds a U.S. Workshop on the Roadmap Development for Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework; and Chronopolis hosts a WebEx demonstration. Source: NDIIPP, Library of Congress (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:30:50 +0100 825455 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/proquest-will-digitize-times-of-india-for-historical-newspaper-collection/ From the Announcement: The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English daily newspaper, will join ProQuest Historical Newspapers, expanding the international content in this acclaimed archive. ProQuest announced at the International Federation of Library Association’s International Newspaper Conference in New Delhi that it will enable digital access to content published from 1838 to 2001 at its mid-year launch, with continually growing coverage. See Also: ProQuest Historical Newspaper Information Web Page Source: ProQuest (via Against-The-Grain) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:06:51 +0100 825329 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/v7n-RMcelH8/european-digital-libraries-funding.html "The European Community recently held a meeting in Luxembourg to inform potential applicants about their the ICT Policy Support Programme. 30 million Euros have been allocated to the digital libraries strand which aims to improve accessibility, use and preservation of Europe’s rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage. The call is broken up into six objectives, three focussing on cultural content and Europeana. The other three focus on 'scientific' information and the wider issues surrounding digital libraries" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:48:19 +0100 825268 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/03/book-guide-to-distributed-digital.html  The announcement below was received via email.  Please note that the book is for sale via lulu.com Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of volumes from the Educopia Institute describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit.This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways.This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and administrators. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network.Readers may access A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation as a freely downloadable pdf and/or as a print publication for purchase. Please visit http://www.metaarchive.org/GDDP to download or order the book.Technorati tag: Digital PreservationThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825388 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/5sFKOdyU72g/book-guide-to-distributed-digital.html  The announcement below was received via email.  Please note that the book is for sale via lulu.com Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of volumes from the Educopia Institute describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit.This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways.This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and administrators. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network.Readers may access A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation as a freely downloadable pdf and/or as a print publication for purchase. Please visit http://www.metaarchive.org/GDDP to download or order the book.Technorati tag: Digital PreservationThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825272 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/DvVADqrxgdw/ ….made up of scraps I had lying around that you might enjoy…eclecticism ahead… 1. Public libraries and the future Role of public libraries in supporting and promoting digital participation – from the British Museums, Libraries and Archives council , examining the role of the public library in the “Digital Britain” Strategy. The bookends scenarios: Alternative futures for the New South Wales Public Network in NSW in 2030 . Four possible scenarios are discussed – Silent Spring, Buildings Learn, Neuromancers and Fahrenheit 451 – based on matrix of the degree to which libraries and their content are valued and how orderly or chaotic society is.  The longer post I had about this is just not going to be finished, but Jo Ransom has written two great responses to it that are worth reading – Thinking about the bookends report , and Bookends scenario . 2. Digital preservation guides for small libraries Preservation guidelines – from the Digital New Zealand site, updated 8 March 2010. Has some great tips about backup formats and procedures. Creating and keeping your digital treasures – from the State Library of Western Australia, update 10 January 2010.  Written for a non-technical audience, it outlines the minimum file format and quality standards for material archived by the library . 3. ebooks Books in the age of the iPad .  by Craig Mod. March 2010. Beautitfully illustrated and laid out, this article distinguishes between “formless content” which can go digital without any loss and “definite content” that relies on its container for complete enjoyment of the work.  It discusses the future potential and advantage for both. Web standards for e-books by Joe Clark  at A List Apart . 9 March 2010 . ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:05:40 +0100 825201 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/WgyFr1FuX_s/blue-ribbon-task-force-report.html Below is a press release that I received via email. The idea of preserving our digital knowledge is something we all know and something that many of us ignore. The fact is that our reliance on digital information means that our knowledge could be lost very quickly, if saving it is not made a priority.Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base Must be a Public Priority Dollars Won't Do It Alone: Deluge of Digital Data Needs Economically Sustainable Plans Addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age - ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future - requires solutions that are at least as much economic and social as technical, according to a new report by a Blue Ribbon Task Force.The Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, called "Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information", is the result of a two-year effort focusing on  the critical economic challenges of  preserving an ever-increasing amount of information in a world gone digital. The full report is available online at http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Final_Report.pdf ."The Data Deluge is here.  Ensuring that our most valuable information is available both today and tomorrow is not just a matter of finding sufficient funds," said Fran Berman, vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and co-chair of the Task Force. "It's about creating a "data economy" in which those who care, those who will pay, and those who preserve are working in coordination."The challenge in preserving valuable digital information - consisting of text, video, images, music, sensor data, etc. generated throughout all areas of our society - is real and growing at an exponential pace. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824895 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/03/blue-ribbon-task-force-report.html Below is a press release that I received via email. The idea of preserving our digital knowledge is something we all know and something that many of us ignore. The fact is that our reliance on digital information means that our knowledge could be lost very quickly, if saving it is not made a priority.Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base Must be a Public Priority Dollars Won't Do It Alone: Deluge of Digital Data Needs Economically Sustainable Plans Addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age - ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future - requires solutions that are at least as much economic and social as technical, according to a new report by a Blue Ribbon Task Force.The Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, called "Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information", is the result of a two-year effort focusing on  the critical economic challenges of  preserving an ever-increasing amount of information in a world gone digital. The full report is available online at http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Final_Report.pdf ."The Data Deluge is here.  Ensuring that our most valuable information is available both today and tomorrow is not just a matter of finding sufficient funds," said Fran Berman, vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and co-chair of the Task Force. "It's about creating a "data economy" in which those who care, those who will pay, and those who preserve are working in coordination."The challenge in preserving valuable digital information - consisting of text, video, images, music, sensor data, etc. generated throughout all areas of our society - is real and growing at an exponential pace. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824845 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/k9T5S_YOZT0/tectonics-of-digital-curation.html The Tectonics of Digital Curation - A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape - May 25-26, 2010 - The Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:52:56 +0100 824745 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/prelingers-save-the-orphaned-films-and-books-that-libraries-abandon/ From the Post: How to explain what [ResourceShelf Reader] Rick and Megan Prelinger are up to? The California couple searches out all that stuff you probably saw and read in your childhood — films about corn production, home movies of Detroit, propaganda manuals about good manners — and collects it. When a library has to get rid of a roomful of old books because of budget cuts or to expand its computer center, it’s the Prelingers to the rescue. [Snip] “Public libraries are under enormous pressure for how to use space,” says co-founder Megan Prelinger. “They very often have to get rid of something old every time something new comes in.” Often, they dump publications that have to do with business, industry, landscape, land use — all things that can still be useful to us as we figure out how to plan for tomorrow. “Libraries have to throw things away for many reasons, and it’s almost never because the material isn’t valuable,” she says. [Snip] Too often, the Prelingers learned, what we throw away as worthless today may turn out to have value tomorrow. Somewhere thirty or forty years back, we may uncover a crossroads we took in our thinking or in the development of an idea, and discover it may be worth exploring that alternate route again. In fact, of the 1,000 people who come visit the library each year in San Francisco’s SoMa district, many are people seeking raw materials to inspire new ideas. Source: WalletPop See Also: Prelinger Archives (via Internet Archive) (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:24:37 +0100 824598 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15923 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION: A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape MAY 25-26, 2010 The Ray and Maria Stata Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA PRESENTED BY the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) HOSTED BY the MIT Libraries THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION explores the sustainability of cultural collections created for and maintained on the Web. At this two-day symposium, a diverse faculty of national experts will examine the forces at play in our increasingly networked society. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: divergence and complexity in information networking; digital preservation repositories; electronic copyright and intellectual property; collaborative and commercial preservation models; digital archiving strategies; open access to scholarly communication; the networked self; preservation of CAD models; and preservation of community-built digital creations (video games). WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Librarians, archivis (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824662 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/03/event-digital-preservation-planets-way.html Received via email. Registration is open for the final Planets training and outreach event, which takes place in Rome with the support of the Pontificia Università Gregoriana.  This is the final event in the series of five.Day 1 will address the case for digital preservation, digital preservation as a risk management activity, the action that needs to be taken and introduce the Planets framework, tools and services as an integrated approach to digital preservation. Local organisations will present two case studies to show how they are preserving digital collections.Days 2 and 3 provide an opportunity to meet and learn from the experts, creators and developers of Planets. Using a sample collection, you will gain hands-on experience of Planets tools and services. There will also be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, network with peers and to try out tools and exercises.Register now for day 1 only at a cost of EUR95 or for the whole three-day event at a cost of EUR199 at: http://www.tcp-events.co.uk/planets2010/. Places are limited and registration will close on 9 April 2010. To see the event programme and to find out more information on Planets and the training and outreach event, please visit: http://www.planets-project.eu/events/rome-2010/ or send an email to trainingevents@planets-project.eu. To read delegates’ first-hand accounts from our previous London event visit: http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/. http://futurearchives.blogspot.com/2010/02/music-planets-and-secret-messages.html.Planets (Preservation and Long-Term Access through Networked Services) is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union and delivered by 16 national libraries, national archives, universities and technology companies across Europe. Technorati tag: Digital PreservationThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824623 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/ErDLzeIoqgA/event-digital-preservation-planets-way.html Received via email. Registration is open for the final Planets training and outreach event, which takes place in Rome with the support of the Pontificia Università Gregoriana.  This is the final event in the series of five.Day 1 will address the case for digital preservation, digital preservation as a risk management activity, the action that needs to be taken and introduce the Planets framework, tools and services as an integrated approach to digital preservation. Local organisations will present two case studies to show how they are preserving digital collections.Days 2 and 3 provide an opportunity to meet and learn from the experts, creators and developers of Planets. Using a sample collection, you will gain hands-on experience of Planets tools and services. There will also be plenty of opportunity to ask questions, network with peers and to try out tools and exercises.Register now for day 1 only at a cost of EUR95 or for the whole three-day event at a cost of EUR199 at: http://www.tcp-events.co.uk/planets2010/. Places are limited and registration will close on 9 April 2010. To see the event programme and to find out more information on Planets and the training and outreach event, please visit: http://www.planets-project.eu/events/rome-2010/ or send an email to trainingevents@planets-project.eu. To read delegates’ first-hand accounts from our previous London event visit: http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/. http://futurearchives.blogspot.com/2010/02/music-planets-and-secret-messages.html.Planets (Preservation and Long-Term Access through Networked Services) is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union and delivered by 16 national libraries, national archives, universities and technology companies across Europe. Technorati tag: Digital PreservationThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824542 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/03/07/implications-of-china-v-google-standoff-to-canada/ As many of our readers surely know, Google has been reassessing whether to continue its operations in China following a series of hacking incidents that allegedly originated from that country. Prof. Ronald Deibert of UofT revealed today that the hackers also attempted to access Google directories, which was not widely reported when the story first broke.  Deibert is one of the experts Google is consulting with on how to respond to the incidents. Despite the The Investigative Powers of the 21st Century Act (IP21C) that was tabled before the prorogue, Deibert claims that cyberspace generally operates in a policy vacuum in Canada. His recent paper with the Canadian International Council, China’s Cyberspace Control Strategy: An Overview and Consideration of Issues for Canadian Policy, states, Like many other countries, Canada depends on economic exchange with China, and is home to a large and growing Chinese diaspora community that can be vocal critics of China’s human rights policies. It is also the home of some of the leading research and development projects on Internet censorship, surveillance and information warfare that, at times, are antagonistically linked to China. He proposes that Canada: (1) Take a leadership position in promoting a global, multilateral agenda around arms control in cyberspace. The present state-based cyber security agenda is almost entirely absent of voices or forums dedicated to creating norms of mutual restraint, confidence building and information sharing. (2) Take a more active interest in the role played by Canadian companies which support China’s vast censorship and surveillance regime. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:50:43 +0100 824446 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/03/whats-new-and-how-to-stay-current.html First, the  Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) are now publishing a joint newsletter called "What's New".  The second issue was released this month.  This replaces the DCC's monthly Curation News Round-up and the DPC's quarterly bulletin 'What's new in Digital Preservation?'  I don't see an RSS feed for the site, so I hope this is something they will add, since having content delivered is better than going out to find it.Second, each time I teach a semester-long course in digitization, I have my students interview someone who is currently involved in a digitization project/program.  These interviews are educational for the students, since they get to hear what practitioners are doing and thinking. They are also educatinal for me, because I get a quick peak into many programs.  What I always find interesting from the interviews is how people learned about digitization as well as how they keep up with what's going on. Many practitioners learned about digitization by doing it, rather than from classes, etc.  Rarely do my students find someone who took extensive formal training, even though that traning exists.Most people stay up-to-date through email discussion groups, newsletters and conference sessions. Only a few people talk about anything formal that they do in order to stay current.  In looking at where people do go for information, there is no central location that everyone visits.  We all go in different directions.  That could mean that we're all not tripping over important information that could help us in our programs. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824343 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/dS7QbUQEcqI/ From the press release: The Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, called “Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information”, is the result of a two-year effort focusing on the critical economic challenges of preserving an ever-increasing amount of information in a world gone digital. The full report is available online. “The Data Deluge is here. Ensuring that our most valuable information is available both today and tomorrow is not just a matter of finding sufficient funds,” said Fran Berman, vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and co-chair of the Task Force. “It’s about creating a “data economy” in which those who care, those who will pay, and those who preserve are working in coordination.” The challenge in preserving valuable digital information – consisting of text, video, images, music, sensor data, etc. generated throughout all areas of our society – is real and growing at an exponential pace. A recent study by the International Data Corporation (IDC) found that a total of 3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000 (that’s roughly 3.9 trillion times a trillion) new digital information bits were created in 2008. In the future, the digital universe is expected to double in size every 18 months, according to the IDC report. More info at Resource Shelf. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:43:51 +0100 824047 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/05/archiving-britains-web-the-legal-nightmare-explored/ An investigation by Katie Scott. From the Report: A proposal that could give select institutions the power to take snapshots of websites without their owners’ permission is being ruminated by our Government. Civil servants at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport are now processing opinions on whether we should be archiving websites for future generations. [Snip] It is this act [2003 Legal Deposit Libraries Act] that stipulates that a copy of every printed publication made in this country is sent to The British Library, and, on request, to five other “deposit libraries”, which include the National Library of Scotland; the National Library of Wales and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The institutions argue that the act needs to be adapted to include websites, allowing them to archive websites without contacting the owners. The British Library has, in fact, been archiving websites for six years. Last week, it unveiled the culmination of this work — an archive of 6,000 websites it deems culturally significant — called the UK Web Archive. These include the websites of high street shops that fell prey to the recession; and the website for Antony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth art installation in Trafalgar Square. The archive has been available to the public since the end of last year. However, as Stephen Bury, head of European and American collections told Wired: “The new website is more useful as you can search by subject.” But the archivists are being held back by the law, he says. The team currently has to contact the copyright holder of every website it wants to archive and this process has just a 24 percent response rate. The Internet Archive including Heritrix and Archive-It are mentioned. The WebCite Project is also noted. Access the Complete Article Source: Wired (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:56:01 +0100 823881 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/04/blue-ribbon-task-force-report-preserving-our-digital-knowledge-base-must-be-a-public-priority/ From a Red Orbit Summary: Addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age – ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future – requires solutions that are at least as much economic and social as technical, according to a new report by a Blue Ribbon Task Force. The Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, called “Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information”, is the result of a two-year effort focusing on the critical economic challenges of preserving an ever-increasing amount of information in a world gone digital. From the News Release: Although not all of this data should be preserved, digital data within the public interest – digital official and historical documents, research data sets, YouTube videos of presidential addresses, etc. – must be retained to maintain an accurate and complete “digital record” of our society. Such digital information is now part of what is known as cyberinfrastructure, an organized aggregate of computers, networks, data, storage, software systems, and the experts who run them that is vital to our life and work in the Information Age. [Snip] “Addressing the issues of value, incentives, and roles and responsibilities helps us understand who benefits from long-term access to digital materials, who should be responsible for preservation, and who should pay for it,” said Brian Lavoie, research scientist at OCLC and Task Force co-chair. “Neglecting to account for any of these conditions significantly reduces the prospects of achieving sustainable digital preservation activities over the long run. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:58:25 +0100 823494 http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2010-03-03.htm The Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, co-chaired by OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie. (Source: OCLC Research) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:43:13 +0100 823662 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/03/as-the-internet-replaces-print-publishing-urge-to-unpublish-means-censoring-history/ From the Article: Once upon a time, news stories were entombed in newspaper “morgues” and rarely saw the dusty light of day. Now the news never dies. Millions of people can search the archives online — an amazing benefit unless, perhaps, you’re someone who was actually in the news. In a recent survey (PDF) of 110 news organizations, the Toronto Star found that increasingly, publishers are fielding regular requests from anxious and embarrassed readers to “unpublish” information, sometimes months or years after it first appeared online. [Snip] On a much broader scale, “unpublishing” is the wholesale loss of content that can occur when an online journal or Web archive is sold or goes bankrupt, or the software needed to read it becomes obsolete. It’s expensive to transfer records from an old server to a newer, faster version that operates with different formats and programs. A floppy disk has a half-life of about five years. “It’s not clear who’s responsible to archive digital material,” said Stanley Katz, director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. “Some of the stuff’s going to go away altogether. We are likely to lose whole subsets of it. If we keep renewing everything, we can keep it going. But the question is whether there is money and commitment enough to keep it going. The odds are that money will be applied selectively. “ Access the Complete Article Source: AlterNet (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:07:30 +0100 823163 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/03/under-consideration-an-online-archive-named-video-gov/ We posted earlier today about a speech Eugene Huang from the FCC made earlier this week stating that his organization believes in and will push for free access to PACER filings. Aliya Sternstein reports on Nextgov that the FCC would also like to make an, “online archive named Video.gov to preserve agencies’ Web content and possibly information provided by the media,” part of the broadband bill. The planned national digital archives for the 21st century would expand upon the government’s Data.gov Web site, a warehouse of downloadable federal statistics, and be maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration, the Library of Congress and other agencies, said Eugene Huang, FCC’s director of government performance and civic engagement for the national broadband plan. Access the Complete Article Source: Nextgov See Also: Full Text of the Speech By Eugene Huang from the FCC See Also: FCC to Call for Government Data Overhaul, Broadband Plan Will Recommend Free Access to PACER Docs (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:23:25 +0100 823167 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/02/new-the-coalition-for-networked-information-cni-youtube-channel-is-now-live/ From the Announcement: Current offerings include Bernard Frischer’s closing plenary address on 3D modeling of cultural heritage sites and monuments (fall 2009), David Rosenthal’s discussion of the longevity of digital documents (spring 2009), and presentations by Clifford Lynch, Herbert Van de Sompel, and others. Recordings from future meetings will be made available from the site. You can access the CNI YouTube Channel at: http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo Source: Coalition for Networked Information (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:24:54 +0100 822939 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14513 Librarian II - 3 Positions (Circulation/Access, Coll. Dev. & Spec. Coll.) (Prairie View A&M University, Texas) Three Positions: Prairie View A&M University (1) Librarian II (Head, Access Services & Circulation): Primary duties consist of, but are not limited to, the administration and management of all access services and circulation operations; including library privileges, interlibrary loan, reserves, desk schedules, av/media, and development of circulation policies; subject liaison; collection development; and supervision of library assistants. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:30:02 +0100 822748 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14509 Head of University Archives and Area Research Center (University of Wisconsin - River Falls, Chalmer Davee Library) Full-time academic staff position. Administers, develops, organizes, processes, and provides appropriate access to materials in the University Archives and Area Research Center; establishes and implements policies and procedures allowing for the effective operation of the University’s records management program; provides reference and user instruction related to these collections. Qualifications: Master’s degree in Library and Information Science or related field from an accredited university with minimum of three years of subsequent library and /or archives experience; demonstrated knowledge of archival management, records management, and digital preservation issues. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:30:02 +0100 822747 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/HdoHHvKeDWM/portico-launches-new-website.html "The new Portico website has been launched. More than 650 libraries and 90 publishers (representing over 2,000 scholarly associations) around the world are working together to support the digital preservation of scholarly content through Portico. We hope that the new site provides the information our colleagues need to take full advantage of Portico participation" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:30:55 +0100 822768 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/library-of-congress-digital-preservation-podcast-now-part-of-itunes-u/ From the Announcement: The new Library of Congress podcast series of interviews with prominent digital preservation practitioners was recently named a noteworthy podcast at iTunes U . These podcasts offer a chance to hear experts talk about current approaches to keeping digital content accessible over time. The podcasts are available on the Library of Congress digital preservation website and by subscription through iTunes U. Source: LC/NDIIPP (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:35:09 +0100 822599 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/porticos-web-site-receives-makeover-includes-tools-to-help-educate-how-content-is-preserved/ From the Announcement: More than 650 libraries and 90 publishers (representing over 2,000 scholarly associations) around the world are working together to support the digital preservation of scholarly content through Portico. Highlights include: + Who Participates? – Detailed sort-able lists of participating libraries, publishers, and titles (e-journals, e-books, and d-collections), including bibliographic information, archive holdings, and information about the preservation status of titles and their availability for post-cancellation access. + The Archive: Content & Access – A summary of archive growth and contents over time, a snapshot of current facts and figures, information about ‘triggered content,’ and readily accessible links to our archive audit and access sites. + Preservation Step-by-Step – An overview to help librarians and publishers educate others in their organizations about how digital content is preserved in Portico that is easy to understand and supported by visual aids. + How Portico Saves You Time and Money – Information on how to get value from Portico participation today, including links to our holdings comparison service and to case studies from librarian colleagues. Source: Portico (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:54:40 +0100 822600 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/research-digital-archive-study-aims-to-create-permanence-from-the-web/ From the Article: How can we curate and make permanent the narratives and transient experiences we share daily on the web? Can we preserve a player’s participation in an Alternate Reality Game that spans continents and platforms, or in reading a story that disappears from the world once its last page is turned? Dr Tom Abba of the University of the West of England is investigating this – he has just been awarded an early career research grant to identify strategies for archiving new and existing digital works. These works or narratives are ‘born-digital’ – story forms created on the web, but echoing the shapes of novels, films, poems, and other media. His research into how to classify and curate these digital narratives will strengthen UWE’s emerging reputation for research into new and interactive media, focused through the University’s Digital Cultures Research Centre. [Snip] Tom says, “The transitory nature of the web, and the speed at which things emerge and quickly vanish, causes all sorts of problems for scholars looking to understand new forms of story. The third insight for my research was recognising that there was an opportunity to take hold of some of those curatorial questions, and try to determine what was worth holding onto for future generations and why. Access the Complete Article Source: University of the West of England, Bristol (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:33:19 +0100 822476 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/03/cfp-journal-of-library-metadata.html CFP - Journal of Library MetadataThe Journal of Library Metadata, a peer-reviewed journal, marks the growing importance of metadata in libraries and other institutions. As libraries collect, produce, distribute and publish more information than ever before, the metadata that describes these resources becomes more critical for digital resource management and discovery. The Journal of Library Metadata is the exclusive forum for the latest research, innovations, news, and expert views about all aspects of metadata applications and about the role of metadata in information retrieval. The journal is published quarterly by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.The journal covers all aspects of metadata applications including (but not limited to):* Application Profiles* Best practices* Controlled vocabularies* Crosswalking of metadata and interoperability* Digital libraries and metadata* Federated repositories* Federated searching* Folksonomies* Individual metadata schemes* Institutional repository metadata* Metadata content standards* Metadata harvesting* Ontologies* Preservation metadata* Resource Description Framework* Resource discovery and metadata* Search engines and metadata* SKOS* Tagging and tag clouds* Topic maps* Visual image and moving image metadataThe journal publishes three categories of articles: standard, peer-reviewed articles; shorter, non-peer reviewed articles and short viewpoint articles.* Peer-reviewed articles (original research): 10-50 double-spaced pages.* Short, non-peer-reviewed articles, often practical in nature: 500-2,000 words with limited citations.* Upbeat viewpoint articles giving the author’s opinion on a timely topic related to metadata applications: 500-2,000 words with or without citations. Focus should be on improvements or solutions instead of negative aspects of an existing system, standard or service.Editor:Jung-ran ParkDrexel UniversityFor more information please visit the submission instructions: http://www.informaworld. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824124 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/03/cfp-music-reference-services-quarterly.html CFP: Music Reference Services QuarterlyEditors are inviting articles for Spring and Summer 2010 double issue of Music Reference Services Quarterly, the peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis. The articles should fall within the scope of music librarianship in any of the following categories:· administration and management· bibliographic instruction· collection development· digital audio delivery· electronic resources· facilities· music librarianship education· preservation of music materials· reference services· cataloging· bibliographies involving printed music and audio-visual materialsThe first draft deadline is April 15, 2010. Conference presentations and poster sessions that would be appropriate to expand as a journal article within the scope of Music Reference Services Quarterly are welcome.No previously published, simultaneously submitted material will be considered. For additional information and a description of the review process, Music Reference Services Quarterly contributor guidelines may be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t792306936~tab=submit~mode=paper_submission_instructionsAll papers should be emailed to Ana Dubnjakovic (ana@vt.edu) and Michelle Hahn (mhahn@mail.smu.edu). We look forward to hearing from you! (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824122 http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/03/freedom-for-scholarship-in-internet-age.html My powerpoint and detailed notes for my OCULA spotlight speech at the Ontario Library Association Superconference last week, Freedom for scholarship in the internet age, is available for viewing or downloading from here.In brief, this speech begins with some thoughts on the purpose of scholarship. This question should frame any discussion of scholarly communication. While there are millions of researchers and at least as many research questions, it can be useful to think about a question like addressing global warming when evaluating potential change in scholarly communication. Note that it is important to remember that there can be a signficant gap in time (sometimes centuries) between when a concept is introduced, and when it is understood.From the scholar's perspective, publisher-added digital rights management (DRM) is seen as a hindrance to scholarship - not a value add. Libre open access - free to re-use as well as to read - is only a small fraction of open access right now, but it is predicted that libre OA will be increasingly sought by scholars who experience its benefits.Dealing with the sheer volume of information presently available (and still expanding exponentially) is one of the key challenges for scholars, librarians, and publishers alike. Three strategies for addressing this challenge are discussed. Reading less or filtering is seen as tempting, but not a good idea when examined against the purpose of scholarship. For example, if we find the volume of information coming from China overwhelming, it might be tempted to skip reading it; but if Chinese scholars are doing research that could help us to figure out a clean energy breakthrough, this isn't such a good idea. Writing less is a strategy that has more potential. Some of the pressure to write in quantity in academia may actually be counterproductive. Collaborating is a strategy well worth pursuing. To understand why, first picture the physics article with a thousand authors. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822910 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/Ar_JRgJyFMU/ Philpapers Breaks New Ground for Discipline Based Repositories http://icio.us/nl1wfu # Jewel in the Open Content Crown Needs Help http://icio.us/mjxpa1 # OASPA: act now or lose credibility forever http://icio.us/a3w2cr # 50+ CSS Techniques Designers Should Know http://icio.us/xzl4h3 # Epub reader plugin for Firefox http://icio.us/0quiwr # January 2010 Profile: Michael Healy [Executive Director, Google Book Rights Registry] http://icio.us/tgooxz # E-Books and ISBNs: a position paper and action points from the International ISBN Agency http://icio.us/uygmsb # Europe 'will not accept' three strikes in Acta treaty http://icio.us/b5cffd # New Mexico State Must Cut Materials Budget by 27% http://icio.us/i2qnrq # 500,000 journal articles listed on RePE http://icio.us/nprlmy # Three-strikes petition gets attention of 10 Downing Street http://icio.us/lty5j0 # Next Generation Connectivity: A Review of Broadband Internet Transitions and Policy from Around the World http://bit.ly/az3fHe # RSA System Administrator/Manager at Alliance Library System http://bit.ly/aULzUz # 2010 Publication Schedule for the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography http://bit.ly/bSjT26 # Systems Librarian at Florida Institute of Technology http://bit.ly/devcGr # Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and Benefits for Universities http://bit.ly/b2rXwj # When using open source makes you an enemy of the state http://icio.us/stzzzn # European Commission Gets Tough Treatment From Parliament Over ACTA http://icio.us/mj4vps # How efficient is our licensing system? http://icio.us/mwudov # The Big Brother of Europe?: France Moves Closer to Unprecedented Internet Regulation http://icio.us/lfih1b # RIAA ’statutory damages’ argument trashed? http://icio.us/aozzu1 # Third RIAA trial for Jammie Thomas-Rasset http://icio.us/xrkoek # Riggio: Barnes & Noble to Become E-Commerce Retailer http://icio. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822384 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/28/last-weeks-digitalkoans-tweets-2010-02-28/ Philpapers Breaks New Ground for Discipline Based Repositories http://icio.us/nl1wfu # Jewel in the Open Content Crown Needs Help http://icio.us/mjxpa1 # OASPA: act now or lose credibility forever http://icio.us/a3w2cr # 50+ CSS Techniques Designers Should Know http://icio.us/xzl4h3 # Epub reader plugin for Firefox http://icio.us/0quiwr # January 2010 Profile: Michael Healy [Executive Director, Google Book Rights Registry] http://icio.us/tgooxz # E-Books and ISBNs: a position paper and action points from the International ISBN Agency http://icio.us/uygmsb # Europe 'will not accept' three strikes in Acta treaty http://icio.us/b5cffd # New Mexico State Must Cut Materials Budget by 27% http://icio.us/i2qnrq # 500,000 journal articles listed on RePE http://icio.us/nprlmy # Three-strikes petition gets attention of 10 Downing Street http://icio.us/lty5j0 # Next Generation Connectivity: A Review of Broadband Internet Transitions and Policy from Around the World http://bit.ly/az3fHe # RSA System Administrator/Manager at Alliance Library System http://bit.ly/aULzUz # 2010 Publication Schedule for the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography http://bit.ly/bSjT26 # Systems Librarian at Florida Institute of Technology http://bit.ly/devcGr # Modelling Scholarly Communication Options: Costs and Benefits for Universities http://bit.ly/b2rXwj # When using open source makes you an enemy of the state http://icio.us/stzzzn # European Commission Gets Tough Treatment From Parliament Over ACTA http://icio.us/mj4vps # How efficient is our licensing system? http://icio.us/mwudov # The Big Brother of Europe?: France Moves Closer to Unprecedented Internet Regulation http://icio.us/lfih1b # RIAA ’statutory damages’ argument trashed? http://icio.us/aozzu1 # Third RIAA trial for Jammie Thomas-Rasset http://icio.us/xrkoek # Riggio: Barnes & Noble to Become E-Commerce Retailer http://icio. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822699 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/27/in-haiti-digital-archivists-work-to-save-rare-books-historical-documents/ From the Article: But Brooke Wooldridge also learned help was desperately needed to rescue and preserve the treasures that help chronicle Haiti’s history, clustered mostly in the four institutions in downtown Port-au-Prince. “”First I worried about the people and making sure everybody working at these institutions were OK, and then I thought about all of those collections,” said Wooldridge, project coordinator for the Digital Library of the Caribbean at Florida International University. “I felt very conflicted. Emotionally, I knew there was so much life lost, but I also knew that if the collections were ignored, Haiti’s collective memory could be lost. I knew we needed to help’.” So Wooldridge quickly assembled like-minded culturalists who were already a part of the Digital Library, an international coalition of research, governmental and educational institutions that provides access to Caribbean-related electronic materials. The organization, founded in 2004, was perfectly poised to help. Led by Wooldridge, it had already been working with Haiti’s librarians and curators over the years to digitize their collections. Within weeks, the group launched a campaign to rally international contributors, raise money and provide technical support for the recovery and protection of Haiti’s cultural resources — the already brittle rare books and documents scattered and dusted by the quake. Source: Miami Herald (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:31:01 +0100 822025 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/vFNvo0hwT1c/guide-to-distributed-digital.html "Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:57:13 +0100 821742 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/library-of-congress-on-a-quest-to-save-forgotten-video-games/ From a Blog Post: It may seem like a random undertaking for the Library of Congress, but the institution has drafted numerous notable universities, including Maryland, Stanford, and Illinois, to begin saving vintage games from extinction. And, according to The Atlantic, this “consortium is just one part of a growing movement uniting academics, librarians, developers, and players around game preservation.” If you have your own box of stashed-away gaming goodies, and would like to get involved with the preservation quest, you can contact the UT Video Game Archive (sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin), or the Library of Congress’s Digital Preservation project. Source: Switched See Also: Much More in The Atlantic Article, “Pac Rat” [It's a] $2.15 million program to develop standards for preserving video games and “virtual worlds”—that is, online multiplayer systems like EverQuest and World of Warcraft. (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:06:21 +0100 821575 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/aOp4BBG_GbE/digital-copyright-british-library The issue of copyright is a global nightmare for anyone interested in digital preservationHistorians 100 years hence will have an abundance of source material about how ordinary lives were lived during the 21st century thanks to the unprecedented way we leave traces through websites, email, Twitter and social networks such as Facebook.Well, that's the theory. In practice, most of this living history will be discarded in digital dustbins unless something is done about it. We are often told that, thanks to startling improvements in technology, all our personal memories will soon be able to be stored on something the size of a sugar cube. But the granules that make up that sugar cube are widely scattered and difficult if not impossible to recover.It is reckoned that the average life expectancy of a website is less than 75 days and that at least 10% of UK websites are lost or replaced with new material every six months. These figures come from a statement by the British Library at yesterday's launch of the UK Web Archive, which will guarantee access in perpetuity to thousands of hand-picked UK websites – some of which might otherwise have faced oblivion.They include Antony Gormley's Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth Project. This involved 2,400 participants, and the live stream by Sky Arts would no longer have existed online from next month had the BL not taken over responsibility for it. Other projects to be preserved for posterity include a record of the Credit Crunch and the 2010 general election.The BL is doing a marvellous job of preserving key historical events, but what it covers is only a tiny part – about 6,000 sites so far – of the nation's digital memory. Even doing that has proved hugely time-consuming because the BL's small staff has to seek permission every time it takes a copy of anything. This is because of the UK's archaic copyright laws, which will hopefully be partially corrected in the digital bill now going through parliament. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:32:00 +0100 821336 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/a-new-book-from-the-metaarchive-cooperative-a-guide-to-distributed-digital-preservation/ A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation. K. Skinner and M. Schultz, Eds. (Atlanta, GA: Educopia Institute, 2010). The Full Text PDF (156 pages) is free. A print copy can be ordered via LuLu for $12.95. Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of volumes describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit. This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways. This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and administrators. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network. Source: MetaArchive (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:01:22 +0100 821446 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/uk-web-archive-now-open-to-the-public/ From the British Library News Release This important research resource has been developed in partnership with the National Library of Wales, JISC and the Wellcome Library, as well as technology partners such as IBM. Comments from British Library Chief Executive, Dame Lynne Brindley “Since 2004 the British Library has led the UK Web Archive in its mission to archive a record of the major cultural and social issues being discussed online. Throughout the project the Library has worked directly with copyright holders to capture and preserve over 6,000 carefully selected websites, helping to avoid the creation of a ‘digital black hole’ in the nation’s memory. “Limited by the existing legal position, at the current rate it will be feasible to collect just 1% of all free UK websites by 2011. We hope the current DCMS consultation will enact the 2003 Legal Deposit Libraries Act and extend the provision of legal deposit through regulationto cover freely available UK websites, providing regular snapshots of the free UK web domain fort the benefit of future research.” From a Blog Post by Rory Cellan-Jones: But the British Library has another fear – that old websites will simply disappear into a digital black hole when their owners take them down. The library says all sorts of material, which may look trivial today, could be of vital interest to future historians. To that end, it’s been working for some years on a web archive of British sites, which is now open to the public. Note: Search is by Title of Website, Full Text or URL, or browse by Subject, Special Collection or Alphabetical List. [Snip] The average life of a web page these days is apparently somewhere between 44 and 77 days. A lot of the web simply disappears into the ether, but this and other archives are doing a valuable job of preserving some traces of our digital lives in a time capsule. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:46:41 +0100 821448 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/9I0VpPSkaoA/ JISC has released the Digital Repository infoKit, which was created in association with the Repository Support Project. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The Digital Repository infoKit is a practical 'how to' guide to setting up and running digital repositories. The kit contains information on a broad range of topics running from the initial idea of a digital repository and the planning process, via detailed sections on repository set up and promotion, through to the maintenance and ongoing management of the repository. The main focus is on institutional repositories and the kit reflects current repository community best practice. This resource has been written for repository administrators. It assumes no prior knowledge of repository matters and, more importantly, assumes no prior technical knowledge. The kit can be used by anyone who needs an introduction to any of the topics covered. Related Posts Towards Repository Preservation Services. Final Report from the JISC Preserv 2 Project Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1 Repository Staff and Skills Set Revised Digital Repository for the Arts: Kultur: Final Report Blended Research and Learning Object Repository: JISC Final Report—CIRCLE (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:06:53 +0100 822390 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/24/a-guide-to-distributed-digital-preservation/ The MetaArchive Cooperative has released A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways. This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and administrators. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network. Related Posts International Internet Preservation Consortium Launches Web Archives Registry Harvard University Library OIS Releases File Information Tool Set Version 0.3.1 Library of Congress Launches Digital Preservation Podcast Series Center for Research Libraries Certifies Portico as Trustworthy Digital Repository Enhanced Publications: Linking Publications and Research Data in Digital Repositories (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:02:29 +0100 821867 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2915 Please check out the new book published by the MetaArchive Cooperative called A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation. It's both timely and handy. [Full disclosure: the book is primarily about LOCKSS and mentions specifically the project that I'm working on LOCKSS-USDOCS, FGI and I receive no compensation from the sales of the book.] Announcement: publication of A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation Authored by members of the MetaArchive Cooperative, A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is the first of a series of volumes from the Educopia Institute describing successful collaborative strategies and articulating specific new models that may help cultural memory organizations work together for their mutual benefit. This volume is devoted to the broad topic of distributed digital preservation, a still-emerging field of practice for the cultural memory arena. Replication and distribution hold out the promise of indefinite preservation of materials without degradation, but establishing effective organizational and technical processes to enable this form of digital preservation is daunting. Institutions need practical examples of how this task can be accomplished in manageable, low-cost ways. This guide is written with a broad audience in mind that includes librarians, archivists, scholars, curators, technologists, lawyers, and administrators. Readers may use this guide to gain both a philosophical and practical understanding of the emerging field of distributed digital preservation, including how to establish or join a network. Readers may access A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation as a freely downloadable pdf and/or as a print publication for purchase. Please visit http://www.metaarchive.org/GDDP to download or order the book. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:38:38 +0100 821250 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/24/web-information-has-lasting-value-over-time/ From the Article: Reference to the Internet can’t be avoided, as so much information is created and spread online. Digital information offers so much more than what offline newspapers or books can represent, reflecting the social phenomena. But, at the same time, as American inventor Daniel Hills described, people are now living in a “digital dark age” where information comes and disappears quickly without being kept. [Snip] Just as stories from the Three Kingdoms era is a window to people’s lives at that time, so Web pages mirror the lifestyle and interests of people in this same era, Min added, and he was disappointed by the fact that neither the government nor the private sector acknowledges the necessity of accumulating Web pages for their records. “Kim Young-sam was the first president to make a Web site for the presidential office. However, if you want to see one of the Web pages from his time, you can’t find it,” Min said, saying he himself had tried. Instead, he could find it on the U.S. International Archive Web page, which means, “There might come a day when we have to pay to see the page that we once created.” The U.S. Internet Archive, a non-profit organization, since its inception in 1996, is a stockpile of Web pages that are both American and non-American. At the beginning of 2000, Min said he was writing his thesis for a doctorate degree. The subject was an online civil group movement, for which he was monitoring one specific non-government organization’s Web site on a daily basis. “One day, for some reason, the Web page shut itself down, and all the information evaporated,” he said, adding how frustrated he became. Min called for a government-led initiative to preserve Web pages. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:06:28 +0100 821165 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/24/deluge-of-scientific-data-needs-to-be-curated-for-long-term-use/ From the Announcement/Article/Overview: Carole L. Palmer, a professor of library and information science, says that data curation – the active and ongoing management of data through their lifecycle of interest to science – is now understood to be an important part of supporting and advancing research. “There’s a lot of recognition now of the value of data as assets to institutions and to the scientific enterprise, more generally,” Palmer said. “Saving only the publications that report the results of research simply isn’t enough anymore. Researchers also need access to data that can be integrated and re-used in new ways. This is especially important in data-intensive science, where the power of discovery lies in applying computational approaches to large, aggregated data sets.” [Can you say an increasingly IMPORTANT role for info professionals?] Palmer, who also is the director of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship at Illinois, said that researchers need to start thinking about data-management requirements from the very beginning of their projects, and to think in terms of a data set’s lifecycle. [Snip] The biggest difficulties in collecting, curating and managing large amounts of data over the long term have to do with cost and labor. [Snip] “Digital content, including digital data, is much more vulnerable than the print or analog formats we had before,” Palmer said. [Snip] To those who would say publish it on a Web page and let Google cache the page for posterity, Palmer argues that businesses don’t have the orientation necessary for curating and preserving information for the really long term – say, for hundreds of years. Research libraries, on the other hand, have this mission and always have been committed to this. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:02:36 +0100 821171 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/24/nara-discusses-issues-with-cloud-computing-and-government-record-keeping/ From the Article: The National Archive and Records Administration (NARA) is reminding government agencies to be vigilante of their record keeping as they adopt cloud computing environments. The document, posted on the NARA Web site, answers frequently asked questions about record keeping and cloud computing, and raises concerns about the difficulties of accurate record keeping for services in the cloud. [Snip] Government agencies have strict record-keeping requirements mandated by a NARA regulation known as 36 CFR 1236.ff. Among the requirements are to maintain records in a way that their functionality and integrity remain constant throughout the record’s life cycle and that links between records and their metadata are maintained. The regulation also calls for the transfer of archival records to NARA and the deletion of temporary records according to NARA-approved retention schedules. The problem with cloud computing environments, according to NARA, is that the architecture itself lacks formal technical standards governing how data is stored and used, which makes it hard to maintain accurate records long term. “This threatens the long term trustworthiness and sustainability of the data,” NARA said on its Web site. Source: Information Week Hat Tip: FGI Blog (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:49:12 +0100 821173 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/P4YqMKhpwdk/ It is an interesting conundrum that every new data storage medium invented since the stone tablet has had a shorter physical lifetime before it degrades. American Scientist looks at this issue in light of the preservation problems presented by digital media. Kurt D. Bollacker begins by talking about issues in data migration from his own past (such as the time he painstakingly backed up his hard drive onto 20 floppy disks…then when he needed to restore discovered he could no longer find the backup software), then talks about how our current digital lifestyle makes it harder to keep our data safe. From an e-book reader’s point of view, this can be a problem: physical libraries will remain as they are for decades, while an e-book library can be wiped out by one hard drive crash. (Though some e-book fans have lost all their paper books in house fires but still had their e-book library safe on their computers, so this is not necessarily always true.) Bollacker goes into a great amount of scientific detail about how errors can creep in when media is damaged, and the fact that greater data densities in newer digital media means that the same amount of physical damage to a denser medium results in losing considerably more information. He also talks about methods of error checking and correction to lessen this type of damage. But on the other hand, the best medium in the world is no good to us if we lose the player for it. This problem is happening in the short term with older media formats from the early days of computers—how much more will it affect information archaeologists of our future? Even if they find a DVD that has been perfectly preserved for all that time, will they be able to read it a thousand years from now? The best solution, Bollacker suggests, is “data promiscuity”: making frequent backups, and transitioning media from old formats to new ones as they become available. But there are alternatives. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:45:00 +0100 821149 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/24/minnesota-project-exists-to-preserve-digital-government-information/ From a NDIIPP Page: The partners from the Model Technological and Social Architecture for the Preservation of State Government Digital Information Project convened on January 20, 2010 in Sacramento, California. The project, lead by the Minnesota Historical Society, is working with legislatures in several states to explore enhanced access to legislative digital records. The purpose of this meeting was to provide an update on recent activities, concentrating on a demonstration of the open source eXist native XML database. [Snip] Bob Horton opened the meeting with updates for the attendees. He discussed the project outcomes, which are to test a model in Minnesota to capture, preserve and provide access to “at-risk” digital content from the state legislature. Minnesota is sharing their experience with the other partners, with each state providing input on the process and determining its capacity to adapt the model. The results are being regularly promoted through education and outreach while the project works to connect its activities to national cyberinfrastructure activities. Read the Entire Article Source: NDIIPP / Library of Congress See Also: Good Government through Digital Infrastructure and Preservation (From October 8, 2009) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:14:10 +0100 821178 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/23/avoiding-a-digital-dark-age/ Kurt D. Bollacker writes: Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, an increasing proportion of the information we create and use has been in the form of digital data. Many (most?) of us have given up writing messages on paper, instead adopting electronic formats, and have exchanged film-based photographic cameras for digital ones. Will those precious family photographs and letters—that is, email messages—created today survive for future generations, or will they suffer a sad fate like my backup floppy disks? It seems unavoidable that most of the data in our future will be digital, so it behooves us to understand how to manage and preserve digital data so we can avoid what some have called the “digital dark age.” This is the idea—or fear!—that if we cannot learn to explicitly save our digital data, we will lose that data and, with it, the record that future generations might use to remember and understand us. [Snip] The general problem of data preservation is twofold. The first matter is preservation of the data itself: The physical media on which data are written must be preserved, and this media must continue to accurately hold the data that are entrusted to it. This problem is the same for analog and digital media, but unless we are careful, digital media can be more fragile. The second part of the equation is the comprehensibility of the data. Even if the storage medium survives perfectly, it will be of no use unless we can read and understand the data on it. With most analog technologies such as photographic prints and paper text documents, one can look directly at the medium to access the information. With all digital media, a machine and software are required to read and translate the data into a human-observable and comprehensible form. If the machine or software is lost, the data are likely to be unavailable or, effectively, lost as well. The article includes several charts and a bibliography. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:15:00 +0100 820960 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/23/if-we-live-in-a-digital-world-why-is-our-visual-history-being-lost/ From a Toronto Star Article: Many [homemade movies] end up in landfills, as people die, family homes are emptied and relatives, for whom the films may be meaningless, throw them out. Corporate archives are also at risk. Earlier this month, fire destroyed nearly four decades’ worth of film and video footage in Ottawa’s CJOH newsroom; it was a devastating loss, not just for the media organization but also for Canadian history. It was made even more poignant by the fact that long-time news anchor Max Keeping is retiring, and had hoped to take his archive of memories stored at CJOH. An astounding 80 per cent of the world’s film and video holdings could be gone by 2015, predicts Matthew White, a founder of the United Nations-led group Archives at Risk, which has advocated for the digitization and preservation of film archives worldwide. THE MONEY needs to surface or the imagery will disappear,” he writes in his essay “Film & video archives: Very much at risk.” While Gone with the Wind will always be around, he says, films documenting regional culture are at risk of vanishing. Not only is there the threat of destruction, as in Ottawa, or the garbage can, but film, if improperly stored, deteriorates into what is known as “vinegar syndrome.” Video offers its own problems: Many of the technologies used to view 3/4-inch and 2-inch tape became obsolete long ago, and archives no longer have the space to store equipment. The content becomes inaccessible. Access the Complete Article, Several Sites are Listed See Also: Canada — Building Supervisor’s Efforts Save Historical Footage from Fire at CTV Ottawa See Also: Access the Archives at Risk Web Site Source: The Toronto Star (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:29:22 +0100 820814 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6938 State: International LIBRARIES - LIBRARIAN I Posting Date: Feb 16, 2010 Posting Number: LIB-258 Continuing System, 12-month basis, 100% time. Minimum salary: $46,000. DUTIES: Reports to the Assistant Director for Digital Information. Working closely with staff in Digital and Multimedia Center, Library IT, Preservation, and other library units, as well as with partners at other institutions, the Digital Curation Librarian will: Plan, develop and provide leadership for a digital curation program for Library collections by reviewing existing library practices and analyzing needs and establishing policies and best practices for the long-term protection and access to digital materials, both created by or acquired for the library. Digital collections formats comprise text, image, audio-visual resources, and research data sets. Collaborate in planning, creating, and managing digital collections. Implement quality control procedures. Identify and collaborate with technical partners within the library, campus and consortial communities. Participate approximately quarter-time in a secondary assignment based on qualifications, interests and need; may include work in areas such as reference, instruction, cataloging, or collection development. Participate in professional development and research activities and serve on library and university committees as elected or assigned. Other appropriate duties as assigned. For more information about Michigan State University Libraries, please visit our website at http://www2.lib.msu.edu QUALIFICATIONS: Masters in Library & Information Science. Other degree requirements: Master's degree from an ALA-accredited program. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:30:02 +0100 820615 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15884 [Apologies for multiple postings] Registration rates go up this Friday, 2/26/2010. Research Data Access and Preservation http://www.asis.org/Conferences/IA10/ResearchDataAccessSummit2010.html Phoenix, AZ | Hyatt Regency | April 9-10, 2010 In cooperation with the Coalition for Networked Information Research Data Access and Preservation Researchers in all fields generate and analyze enormous quantities of digital data. In fields ranging throughout the sciences and humanities, managing, preserving, and sharing these data require substantial capital and human resources and new kinds of information professionals who are able to integrate technology, content, and policy skills. This summit aims to bring together leaders in data centers, laboratories, and libraries in different organizational and disciplinary settings to share ideas and techniques for managing, preserving, and sharing large-scale research data repositories with an eye toward achieving infrastructure-independent access and steward (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 820845 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/22/scholarly-publishing-five-new-publishers-join-clockss/ From the Announcement: CLOCKSS is pleased to announce a new group of five scholarly publishers that have recently joined the CLOCKSS archive: American Academy of Pediatrics Co-Action Publishers Edinburgh University Press Liverpool University Press Rockefeller University Press This latest group of publishers to join CLOCKSS collectively archives over 60 journals, and adds to the diversity of publishers in the CLOCKSS community: from society publishers and university presses, to open-access publishers such as Co-Action. As part of joining CLOCKSS, publishers agree to release their archived content to the world for free if a time comes when it is no longer available from any publisher (“trigger event”). The new participating publishers will also each appoint representatives to the CLOCKSS board. The board is made up of world-leading publishers and libraries who work together to govern the archive and set strategies and policies. See Also: Learn More About Trigger Events Source: CLOCKSS (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:27:12 +0100 820633 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/21/digital-curation-librarian-at-michigan-state-university/ The Michigan State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Curation Librarian, Librarian I. Minimum salary: $46,000. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Reports to the Assistant Director for Digital Information. Working closely with staff in Digital and Multimedia Center, Library IT, Preservation, and other library units, as well as with partners at other institutions, the Digital Curation Librarian will: Plan, develop and provide leadership for a digital curation program for Library collections by reviewing existing library practices and analyzing needs and establishing policies and best practices for the long-term protection and access to digital materials, both created by or acquired for the library. Digital collections formats comprise text, image, audio-visual resources, and research data sets. Collaborate in planning, creating, and managing digital collections. Implement quality control procedures. Identify and collaborate with technical partners within the library, campus and consortial communities. Participate approximately quarter-time in a secondary assignment based on qualifications, interests and need; may include work in areas such as reference, instruction, cataloging, or collection development. Participate in professional development and research activities and serve on library and university committees as elected or assigned. Other appropriate duties as assigned. For more information about Michigan State University Libraries, please visit our website at http://www2.lib.msu.edu Related Posts Digital Projects Librarian at Plymouth State University Librarian I at Wayne State University Libraries Digital Services Librarian at Stevens Institute of Technology Digital Repository Librarian at Cal Poly Digital Programs Archivist at University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821043 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/yFsqa6xz_MQ/ The Michigan State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Curation Librarian, Librarian I. Minimum salary: $46,000. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Reports to the Assistant Director for Digital Information. Working closely with staff in Digital and Multimedia Center, Library IT, Preservation, and other library units, as well as with partners at other institutions, the Digital Curation Librarian will: Plan, develop and provide leadership for a digital curation program for Library collections by reviewing existing library practices and analyzing needs and establishing policies and best practices for the long-term protection and access to digital materials, both created by or acquired for the library. Digital collections formats comprise text, image, audio-visual resources, and research data sets. Collaborate in planning, creating, and managing digital collections. Implement quality control procedures. Identify and collaborate with technical partners within the library, campus and consortial communities. Participate approximately quarter-time in a secondary assignment based on qualifications, interests and need; may include work in areas such as reference, instruction, cataloging, or collection development. Participate in professional development and research activities and serve on library and university committees as elected or assigned. Other appropriate duties as assigned. For more information about Michigan State University Libraries, please visit our website at http://www2.lib.msu.edu Related Posts Digital Archivist, Digital Curation Services at University of Virginia Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan Digital Library Jobs: Digital Projects Librarian at Truman State University Digital Library Jobs: Text Creation Partnership Project Outreach Librarian at Michigan Digital Library Jobs: Digital Preservation Librarian at Michigan (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:04:35 +0100 820729 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/TlzRxkX5Lis/ New Open Access Fund [SFU Library’] http://icio.us/uthzl3 # The BOAI is eight http://icio.us/fuf1aq # Google staunchly defends pact to digitize books http://icio.us/f0nywx # Google Argues for Approval of Book Search Settlements http://icio.us/cantx0 # The Google Books Settlement: Second Round Comments http://icio.us/lfxp4s # VU University Amsterdam backs Open Access and copyright for the researchers http://icio.us/2vpfc5 # RoMEO reaches 700 Publishers http://icio.us/sip4ri # Report on new ACRL Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG) http://icio.us/1ejas3 # Fantastic volunteer scanning project with National Archives–great example of crowdsourcing http://icio.us/lqamed # AIDA and repositories http://icio.us/trae3m # JSTOR Events at 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting http://icio.us/tctd0t # Evergreen 1.6.0.1 and OpenSRF 1.2.2 released http://icio.us/xxrckh # Public Knowledge Statement on DoJ Intellectual Property Task Force http://icio.us/a3r235 # Google Book Search by the Numbers http://icio.us/ec44lz # Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles http://icio.us/p10j4i # eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?' http://icio.us/wrwhuz # Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data http://icio.us/r03a0o # Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers http://icio.us/gfuea1 # Fedora UK & Ireland / EU Joint User Group Meeting http://icio.us/npbjpr # Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context http://icio.us/io3cmr # Open-Access Journals Break Barriers to Academic Freedom http://icio.us/jzechc # Open Access and Libraries: Be my guest http://icio.us/3g1on4 # North Carolina State U. Gives Students Free Access to Physics Textbook Online http://icio.us/2e2adf # Culture Trumps Technology: The UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication Report http://icio.us/hux1bg # How to Find Free Public Domain Books from Google Book Search http://icio.us/yvsxvf # Royal Holloway embraces open access policy for all research http://icio. ... Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 820733 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/48ELvr4npHM/event-4th-international-conference-on.html Received via email... 4th International Conference on: Preservation and Conservation Issues in Digital Printing and Digital Photography 27-28 May 2010 Institute of Physics, London Organised jointly by the IOP Printing and Graphics Science Group and the University of the Arts London (Materials and the Arts Research Centre - MATAR), in association with the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Registration OpenRegistration for the conference has now opened. To register, please visit http://ppp10.iopconfs.org/Registration/page_37015.html. The early registration discount is available until the 27th April 2010.ProgrammeThe two-day international conference aims to examine progress in research of inks, substrates and processes for producing digital prints which may be subjected to archival storage. The event is aimed at an international audience of photographers, conservators, preservation personnel, conservation scientists, and those working in the digital printing, ink and paper industries. Further information about the conference is available at http://ppp10.iopconfs.org/index.html.Enquiries Dawn Stewart The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT, UK. Tel: +44(0)20 7470 4800 Fax: +44(0)20 7470 4900 E-mail: dawn.stewart@iop.orgThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 820212 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/02/event-4th-international-conference-on.html Received via email... 4th International Conference on: Preservation and Conservation Issues in Digital Printing and Digital Photography 27-28 May 2010 Institute of Physics, London Organised jointly by the IOP Printing and Graphics Science Group and the University of the Arts London (Materials and the Arts Research Centre - MATAR), in association with the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Registration OpenRegistration for the conference has now opened. To register, please visit http://ppp10.iopconfs.org/Registration/page_37015.html. The early registration discount is available until the 27th April 2010.ProgrammeThe two-day international conference aims to examine progress in research of inks, substrates and processes for producing digital prints which may be subjected to archival storage. The event is aimed at an international audience of photographers, conservators, preservation personnel, conservation scientists, and those working in the digital printing, ink and paper industries. Further information about the conference is available at http://ppp10.iopconfs.org/index.html.Enquiries Dawn Stewart The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1B 1NT, UK. Tel: +44(0)20 7470 4800 Fax: +44(0)20 7470 4900 E-mail: dawn.stewart@iop.orgThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 820192 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/20/casanovas-steamy-memoirs-given-to-french-library/ Note: This version of the article includes a slideshow with several images of the manuscript. From the Article: The manuscript given to France’s national library Thursday begins simply, yet seductively: “The story of Jacques Casanova … written by himself.” “Himself” is the 18th century lothario, spy, writer and adventurer whose name has become an international synonym for lover. And the original, euro7 million ($9.5 million) manuscript contains Casanova’s memoirs, a work that shocked publishers two centuries ago, was spirited away from the Nazis on a bicycle during World War II, and is soon to go on public view for the first time on Paris’ Left Bank. [Snip] French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand said it “contains an essential part of our history.” The manuscript will go on public display at the French National Library in Paris next year, and a digital copy of the work will be available on the library’s nascent online book site, Gallica. See Also: The Official News Release (Translated from French Using Google Translate) See Also: Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library) See Also: French National Library (English Language Web Site) Source: AP (via Washington Post) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:15:47 +0100 819987 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/17/us-universities-start-20-million-archiving-project/ From the Article: A $20 million US archiving project led by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Sheridan Libraries aims to help preserve scientific data. The five-year ‘Data Conservancy’ project is part of the National Science Foundation’s $100 million DataNet programme. This aims to establish a national cyberinfrastructure to support the long term preservation and curation of scientific data. The Data Conservancy team will build a data research infrastructure for the management of the increasing amounts of digital information created for teaching and research, with an emphasis on enabling new scientific discoveries through data integration. ‘This project is of great importance,’ said Sayeed Choudhury, principal investigator for Data Conservancy and the Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center and associate dean of university libraries at Johns Hopkins. ‘So much information is now ‘born digital’ that efforts like this are vital for enabling new forms of scientific research.’ Access the Complete Article Source: Research Information (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:54:55 +0100 819098 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/17/aiim-study-offices-continue-to-use-paper/ From the Announcement: According to content management association AIIM, office staff loath to give up paper copies, despite the wide availability of scanners and document management systems. AIIM’s recent survey found that 62% of important paper documents are still archived as paper. Even when documents are sent off for archive scanning, 25% are photocopied beforehand “just in case”. Less than a third of the paper originals are systematically destroyed after scanning. AIIM’s President, John Mancini comments, “We are at last in a situation where electronic archiving of records is efficient, effective and can save huge amounts of space, and yet most office staff seem to be hanging on to paper in the mistaken view that there is some legal reason to do so.” “Despite the fact that the legal admissibility of scanned paper documents has been established for nearly 20 years, and is nailed down in legislation and standards around the world, there is still this suspicion among users that they may need to produce the original paper copy at some stage,” continued Mancini. “The fact that searching for – and finding – a paper copy is umpteen times more difficult than finding an electronic one seems to have escaped them.” In the survey, 70% of the respondents agreed with the statement, “Users feel that paper records are needed for legal reasons.” Even at the organizational level, in 25% of businesses the legal admissibility of scanned documents is still seen as an issue. Access the Complete Announcement Source: AIIM (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:07:37 +0100 819102 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/02/event-webwise-2010-march-3-5-in-denver.html Details below. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact:               Kelcey Wetzel, event coordinator                                800.397.1552; bcrpress@bcr.orgAnnouncing the WebWise 2010 Conference, March 3-5, Denver, ColoradoAURORA, Colo., February 16, 2010 — The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is partnering with the Denver Art Museum (DAM) and the University of Denver (DU) to bring WebWise 2010: Imagining the Digital Future to the Mile High city.  BCR is a member of the programming committee.  This will be the 11th annual conference and showcase of the latest technologies being used by libraries and museums to make their collections accessible to the world.“The University of Denver is pleased to be able to partner with the IMLS, the Denver Art Museum, and BCR to bring the 2010 WebWise to Denver Colorado,” noted Nancy Allen, Dean and Director University of Denver Penrose Library. “For more than a decade, WebWise has provided library and museum professionals the opportunity to share and showcase new and innovative approaches to support learning across the variety of communities they serve.” Denver’s own Ed Sardella will interview digital pioneers Howard Besser, Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of New York University's Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program, and Susan Chun, co-founder of the Steve Project, for the opening event at the Denver Art Museum.  Attendees will be greeted by IMLS Director Anne-Imelda M. ... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819116 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/y8TDFecOQ2Q/event-webwise-2010-march-3-5-in-denver.html Details below. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact:               Kelcey Wetzel, event coordinator                                800.397.1552; bcrpress@bcr.orgAnnouncing the WebWise 2010 Conference, March 3-5, Denver, ColoradoAURORA, Colo., February 16, 2010 — The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is partnering with the Denver Art Museum (DAM) and the University of Denver (DU) to bring WebWise 2010: Imagining the Digital Future to the Mile High city.  BCR is a member of the programming committee.  This will be the 11th annual conference and showcase of the latest technologies being used by libraries and museums to make their collections accessible to the world.“The University of Denver is pleased to be able to partner with the IMLS, the Denver Art Museum, and BCR to bring the 2010 WebWise to Denver Colorado,” noted Nancy Allen, Dean and Director University of Denver Penrose Library. “For more than a decade, WebWise has provided library and museum professionals the opportunity to share and showcase new and innovative approaches to support learning across the variety of communities they serve.” Denver’s own Ed Sardella will interview digital pioneers Howard Besser, Professor of Cinema Studies and Director of New York University's Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program, and Susan Chun, co-founder of the Steve Project, for the opening event at the Denver Art Museum.  Attendees will be greeted by IMLS Director Anne-Imelda M. ... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819034 http://geekyartistlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/thoughts-on-academic-library-mission.html I was planning to write about how reading about the board of trustees duties this week coincided with the abrupt announcement of Dr. Bataille's departure... but I read a classmate's post that mentioned library and museum missions, and it sparked lots of thoughts! When I first started my MS in library science in 2002, I didn't understand the academic library mission. Library missions tend to be more straightforward in public libraries than university libraries, probably for the same reasons that university missions themselves are complex and the subject of much debate!At any academic library (meaning college & university libraries, not primary or secondary school libraries) there is definitely the preservation or "conserving knowledge" mission that Bogue/Aper describes. The weight of that mission varies from institution from institution--part of the variance is related to the institutional mission, part of it relates to individual library collections.We're currently refashioning our UNT Libraries mission statement because it does not adequately express our vision of the libraries. We have a particularly rich preservation mission, because we have a number of unique collections in the UNT Archives (like university records and photographs), the Rare Books Room (old manuscripts, miniature books), the Music Library (LP's from the Library of Congress, jazz scores), etc. This is part of the "conservation of knowledge" mission that Bogue mentions, but it's also simply the physical preservation of old and valuable materials.The "conservation of knowledge" portion is expressed in the UNT Digital Library, where all electronic theses/dissertations written by UNT students are kept; the same department is also working with university leaders on a digital repository to store faculty research and publications. ... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 818876 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/02/preserving-born-digital-legal-materials.html That's the question asked on LLRX.com by Sarah Rhodes, the digital collections librarian at the Georgetown Law Library in Washington, D.C."There is no denying the urgent need for libraries to take on the task of preserving our digital heritage. Law libraries specifically have a critically important role to play in this undertaking. Access to legal and law-related information is a core underpinning of our democratic society. Every law librarian knows this to be true. (I believe it's what drew us to the profession in the first place.) ""Frankly speaking, our current digital preservation strategies and systems are imperfect – and they most likely will never be perfected. That's because digital preservation is a field that will be in a constant state of change and flux for as long as technology continues to progress. Yet, tremendous strides have been made over the past decade to stave off the dreaded digital dark age, and libraries today have a number of viable tools, services, and best practices at our disposal for the preservation of digital content. " (Source: Library Boy) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 818579 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/14/ifla-international-newspaper-conference-will-take-place-at-the-end-of-february/ From the Article: The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), in collaboration with the IFLA Newspaper Section, is organising the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 here from February 25 to 28. The theme will be ‘Digital Preservation and Access to News and Views.’ Newspaper librarians and archivists from India, Finland, Australia, the U.S., the U.K., France, Sweden, Germany, South Africa, Singapore, Bangladesh and elsewhere will participate. Ramesh C. Gaur, Librarian and Head of the Kala Nidhi Division at the IGNCA, has said the conference provides an excellent opportunity for Indians to interact and exchange ideas with foreign participants and experts. The participants will present and discuss the latest research, technical innovations, and business developments in the preservation and dissemination of historical and contemporary news and newspapers. Of particular interest will be the latest developments in digitisation of historical newspapers and in the preservation of today’s born digital news and newspapers. Source: The Hindu See Also: Official Conference Web Site Note: ResourceShelf will regularly check the conference programme for papers/presentations that will presented at the conference. (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:45:06 +0100 818274 http://www.llrx.com/features/borndigital.htm Sarah Rhodes discusses the monumental challenge of preserving our digital heritage. She argues that law libraries specifically have a critically important role to play in this undertaking as access to legal and law-related information is a core underpinning of our democratic society. Our current digital preservation strategies and systems are imperfect but tremendous strides have been made over the past decade to stave off the dreaded digital dark age, and libraries today have a number of viable tools, services, and best practices at our disposal for the preservation of digital content. (Source: LLRX.com) Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:44:48 +0100 818619 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/0tyqtJ1Y5YM/e-books-and-e-content-2010-uk.html E-books and E-content 2010 - 11 May 2010 - London, UK - "This year's econtent meeting will consider the emerging and fundamental role of data as content. Once confined to analysts and researchers, raw data in the form of databases, databanks, images and spreadsheets has become easier to store, easier to make accessible and even to publish. This in turn has led to expectations from users as to its availability and prompted the need for a range of tools and techniques to deal with the burgeoning demand. Key issues are: how can such content be managed to ensure its longevity through digital curation and systematic preservation; the need for new standards to enable links with traditional formats and the narrower world of regular scholarly publishing; metadata and taxonomy - how we describe datasets and make them accessible and searchable; and perhaps of most concern, issues of validity and accuracy" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:08:33 +0100 817961 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14412 Digital Repository Developer, Analyst, IT (Duke University, North Carolina) Digital Repository Developer, Duke University Libraries (2 year term appointment) The Duke University Libraries are the shared center of the university’s intellectual life, connecting people and ideas. The Duke University Libraries and the separately administered libraries serving the schools of Business, Divinity, Law, and Medicine, comprise one of the nation’s top ten private university library systems. Duke University Libraries is searching for a Digital Repository Developer who will participate in the design and development of a technical infrastructure to support the management, preservation and appropriate access to digital scholarship at Duke. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:20:02 +0100 817655 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/11/open-book-alliance-responds-to-google%e2%80%99s-request-for-an-amended-google-books-settlement-approval/ Three Articles About Google’s 77 Page Legal Filing Today See Also: Google Rebuts DOJ Objections to Digital Book Deal (via AP) See Also: Google staunchly defends pact to digitize books (via Reuters) See Also: Google Fights Back Against Book Settlement Critics (via WSJ) and a response from the Open Book Alliance From the OBA Blog Post: The Open Book Alliance and many other objectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice, authors, publishers, academics, libraries and privacy advocates from around the world have collectively made the case for rejection of the amended settlement agreement proposed by Google, the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. Despite this broad chorus of opposition, Google has offered only cosmetic changes to its amended settlement. The arguments it now offers to defend the amended settlement are the same arguments that have been rejected by the Department of Justice – twice. Despite the spin from Google’s attorneys, the amended settlement will still offer the search and online advertising giant exclusive access to books it has illegally scanned to the detriment of consumers, authors and competition. Google’s request also fails to answer concerns from consumer advocacy groups like the Institute for Information Law & Policy [at New York Law School] who fear that the amended settlement, if approved, would, “set a dangerous precedent for future cases and undermine democratic political processes.” Source: Open Book Alliance SLA and the New York Library Association are Two Members of the OBA. See Also: The Fairness Hearing is Scheduled for a Week from Today (February 18th) The Laboratorium has a copy of the order (3 pages; PDF) from Judge Chin regarding the hearing. It includes the list of 26 organizations/companies who will be speaking in opposition or in favor of the approval of the proposed settlement. (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:34:26 +0100 817505 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/02/event-digital-preservation-for-digital.html Received in email.Save the Date for Digital Preservation for Digital CollaborativesBCR, LYRASIS and OCLC are proud to present this new workshop, partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.Philadelphia:  April 28-29, 2010San Jose:  August 3-4, 2010Chicago:  November 16-17, 2010Digital Preservation for Digital Collaboratives is a workshop designed to help digital collaboratives with existing digital collections develop and implement a long-term preservation option.  The workshop, designed for multiple representatives from a collaborative, will provide the information and tools the collaborative needs to develop a long-term preservation plan that will work for the collaborative’s unique collections and organizations. Each workshop includes an initial day of online instruction followed by 2 days of in-person instruction.  Additional support after the workshop will be provided to ensure that all participants are able to complete their preservation plans.All workshops will be taught by a faculty of digital preservation experts:Liz Bishoff, Director of Digital & Preservation Services, BCR Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director for Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation Tom Clareson, Senior Consultant, LYRASIS Robin Dale, Director of Digital Services, LYRASIS Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute and Program Manager, MetaArchive CooperativeFor more information, visit http://www.bcr.org/dps/training/neh-dpdc.htmlThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817425 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/m0SlWNPFAVA/event-digital-preservation-for-digital.html Received in email.Save the Date for Digital Preservation for Digital CollaborativesBCR, LYRASIS and OCLC are proud to present this new workshop, partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.Philadelphia:  April 28-29, 2010San Jose:  August 3-4, 2010Chicago:  November 16-17, 2010Digital Preservation for Digital Collaboratives is a workshop designed to help digital collaboratives with existing digital collections develop and implement a long-term preservation option.  The workshop, designed for multiple representatives from a collaborative, will provide the information and tools the collaborative needs to develop a long-term preservation plan that will work for the collaborative’s unique collections and organizations. Each workshop includes an initial day of online instruction followed by 2 days of in-person instruction.  Additional support after the workshop will be provided to ensure that all participants are able to complete their preservation plans.All workshops will be taught by a faculty of digital preservation experts:Liz Bishoff, Director of Digital & Preservation Services, BCR Priscilla Caplan, Assistant Director for Digital Library Services, Florida Center for Library Automation Tom Clareson, Senior Consultant, LYRASIS Robin Dale, Director of Digital Services, LYRASIS Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute and Program Manager, MetaArchive CooperativeFor more information, visit http://www.bcr.org/dps/training/neh-dpdc.htmlThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817284 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/10/internet-archive-registry-organizations-archiving-the-web/ netpreserve.org (International Internet Preservation Consortium) is the developer/maintainer of the registry. Their mission is to: …acquire, preserve and make accessible knowledge and information from the Internet for future generations everywhere, promoting global exchange and international relations. Access Archive Registry This registry provides basic nfo about each archive, links, and in some cases access to the content. You can learn more about the registry in this news release in this announcement from December 22, 2009. Source: netpreserve.org (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:59:26 +0100 816997 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/08/computer-programmer-analyst-iiapplications-developer-at-university-of-connecticut/ The University of Connecticut Libraries are recruiting a Computer Programmer Analyst II/Applications Developer. Here's an excerpt from the ad: As a member of the Digital Programs Team and under the direction of the Digital Programs Team Leader, the Applications Developer provides programming support for UConn's local digital collections workflows, including data-driven planning, capture, metadata handling, efficient and effective discovery tools, and enabling archival master file storage toward a trusted digital repository, all conformant with the best practices of cultural heritage and higher education institutions. The incumbent provides programming, research, and development for digital collections, so that the UConn Libraries can fulfill related strategic objectives in support of the University's Academic Plan. Within a project management environment, the Applications Developer defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains new software and Web applications that support the creation and maintenance of Library information resources and services. With growing collections of diverse digital content, including text, maps and geospatial data, photographs, and other information objects, the next level of growth for UConn will be significant progress toward semantically integrating these resources by means of creative—yet standards-compliant—applications, which the incumbent will play a critical role in developing. The incumbent is responsible for creating applications and for assisting others in developing and implementing Web resources and services that are well integrated into the current information server environment. ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817650 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6880 State: Michigan Hope College seeks a service-oriented Metadata Librarian to connect users with collections in a position that will blend emerging metadata applications with traditional cataloging. Responsibilities include creating descriptive and subject access to print, media, and digital materials using current cataloging and metadata standards; providing guidance on cataloging and metadata procedures; implementing new workflows in response to the Library’s needs; overseeing catalog and digital collections maintenance, including authority control; and maintaining and improving the use of software for the description and access of library materials. Additional responsibilities include: serve as liaison librarian to one or more academic programs; contribute to collection evaluation and development; work some hours each week at the reference desk. QUALIFICATIONS: Master’s degree in Library and Information Science (or equivalent) from an accredited program; demonstrated knowledge of cataloging procedures including AACR2R, RDA, LCSH, and MARC; experience using at least one non-MARC metadata schema such as Dublin Core, EAD, and VRA; working knowledge of integrated library systems, bibliographic utilities, and digital asset management systems; self-reliance as well as the willingness to consult and collaborate with colleagues in a team environment; strong technology skills; and excellent interpersonal skills. Candidates should demonstrate an ability to combine excellence in librarianship with professional activity and should be committed to the character and goals of a liberal arts college with a Christian perspective. QUALIFICATIONS PREFERRED: Proficiency in a foreign language; expertise with digital asset management and institutional repositories; experience working with rare books and special collections; knowledge of library preservation practices. ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:20:02 +0100 816415 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/sfTftByvbHE/ The University of Connecticut Libraries are recruiting a Computer Programmer Analyst II/Applications Developer. Here's an excerpt from the ad: As a member of the Digital Programs Team and under the direction of the Digital Programs Team Leader, the Applications Developer provides programming support for UConn's local digital collections workflows, including data-driven planning, capture, metadata handling, efficient and effective discovery tools, and enabling archival master file storage toward a trusted digital repository, all conformant with the best practices of cultural heritage and higher education institutions. The incumbent provides programming, research, and development for digital collections, so that the UConn Libraries can fulfill related strategic objectives in support of the University's Academic Plan. Within a project management environment, the Applications Developer defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains new software and Web applications that support the creation and maintenance of Library information resources and services. With growing collections of diverse digital content, including text, maps and geospatial data, photographs, and other information objects, the next level of growth for UConn will be significant progress toward semantically integrating these resources by means of creative—yet standards-compliant—applications, which the incumbent will play a critical role in developing. The incumbent is responsible for creating applications and for assisting others in developing and implementing Web resources and services that are well integrated into the current information server environment. ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:04:16 +0100 817367 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/08/digital-preservation-spie-to-preserve-e-books-in-portico/ From the Announcement: Portico (www.portico.org) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with SPIE to preserve its current collection of 93 e-books as well as those to be published in the future. Through this agreement with Portico, SPIE furthers its preservation strategy, which already includes participation in Portico since 2007 on behalf of its entire e-journals collection, and ensures that its e-books will be preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. SPIE is an international non-profit society that was founded in 1955 to advance the technology of optics, photonics, and imaging engineering through information exchange, education, publications, and sponsorships. SPIE publishes six refereed journals, a member magazine, a technical news website, as well as conference proceedings and peer-reviewed handbooks, reference books, and tutorials. As part of the agreement, SPIE will make an additional financial contribution to Portico to support its preservation activities and has also named Portico as a mechanism to fill post-cancellation access claims. With the inclusion of SPIE’s 93 e-books, 34,000 e-books and over 10,700 e-journals from 91 publishers on behalf of over 2,000 societies and associations have now been entrusted to the Portico archive. See Also: e-Journal Holdings See Also: E-Book Holdings Source: Portico See Also: Professional Literature: e-Books Officially Launch as a Part of SPIE Digital Library (ResourceShelf, Feb. 4, 2010. (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:25:45 +0100 816476 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/06/trends-in-preserving-scholarly-electronic-journals/ Authors: Golnessa Galyani Moghaddam Shahed University Dept. of Library and Information Science, Shahed University, Persian, Iran Mostafa Moballeghi Dept. of Industrial Management, Islamic Karaj Islamic Azad University, Iran In: Second International Conference on The Future of Information Sciences (INFuture 2009): Digital Resources and Knowledge Sharing, Zagreb, Croatia, 4-6 November 2009 (via E-LIS) From the Abstract: Scholarly electronic journals have become the largest and fastest growing segment of digital collections for most libraries…The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss different issues related to preserving scholarly electronic journals. The following issues are discussed: differences between print and digital media, shift in the responsibility of archiving, copyright and intellectual property rights, cost of archiving, expertise, selection, redundancy, organizational issues, etc. Technical issues and challenges related to digital preservation include a lack of practical implementations of preservation standards and a lack of technical knowledge, in general, of what information is required to support the digital preservation process within organizations. Nevertheless, digital preservation has received considerably more prominence in recent years, gaining the attention of entities such as national libraries, national archives and other organizations. Access the Full Text Article (10 pages; PDF) Source: INFuture (via E-LIS) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:37:28 +0100 815873 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=ala_midwinter_2010_write_ups_from_around&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Below is the round-up of write-ups around the Internet for ALA presentations that might be of interest to Metadata and Digital Librarians. Did I miss your write-up or presentations? Email me at kmarti@uic.edu and I will add it. Would you like to share your write-up of a conference on the blog? It's not too late! Contact me about that too. Friday 1/15 FRBR Interest Group 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 156 A/B Unit: ALCTS No write-up yet CCS Forum 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 01/15 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 104A/B Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet New CCS Interest Group 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM on 01/15 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 203 Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet Electronic Resources Management Interest Group 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM on 01/15 Location: Hyatt Regency Boston in Duxbury Unit: LITA No write-up yet Saturday Electronic Resources Interest Group 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM on 01/16 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 253A Unit: ALCTS No write-up yet Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM on 01/16 Location: Renaissance Boston Waterfront in Pacific F Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet Catalog Form and Function Interest Group 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 01/16 Location: Hyatt Regency Boston in Grand BR A Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS Link to presentations and abstracts on ALA Connect Link to presentations on ALA Presentation Wiki JPEG2000 Interest Group 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM on 01/16 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 157B Unit: LITA Link to meeting report on ALA Connect Cataloging Norms Interest Group 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM on 01/16 Location: Hyatt Regency Boston in Grand BR B Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS Link to presentations on ALA presentation wiki Catalog Management Interest Group ... Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:21:39 +0100 815881 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/3d9pMvC8K_w/library-of-congress-digital.html The February 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:25:56 +0100 815842 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=770 The famous (and famously reclusive) author J.D. Salinger died on 27 January this year, two days after the anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns – a day which is celebrated across Scotland and in many parts of the world. Salinger and Burns are of course connected, since the title of Salinger’s most famous novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is based on a mishearing of the Burns song Comin’ Through the Rye by the protagonist, 17-year old Holden Caulfield: … I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 22 The idea of being a ‘catcher’ struck me when I attended a conference held at the British Library last week, Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context. Neil Jacobs of JISC mentioned Glasgow University Library’s policy of seeking to ‘catch’ researchers close to the end of funded projects to ask if they would like help with their outputs. Certainly, it is easy to argue for libraries to be the ‘catchers in the rye’ when it comes to digital scholarly works and outputs – and the obvious place to deposit these materials is the institutional repository. However, we were gathered at the BL to hear about subject repositories – including EconomistsOnline which was being launched during the event. And we heard about several very successful subject repositories in a number of very good presentations. The event left me reflecting on a number of things. For example, some subject repositories are success stories almost against all odds. ... Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:15:57 +0100 815622 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/05/nara-and-the-preservation-of-audiovisual-content/ From the Article: NARA’s audiovisual holdings include 360,000 reels of film, 225,000 sound recordings and more than 110,000 videotapes. And millions more are on the way as the digital revolution takes hold throughout the federal government. Those recorded sources, be they analog or digital, will tell the story of U.S. policy-making and information gathering to the ages in ways that plain text never could. And their preservation needs also present challenges. [Snip] Moreover, the preservation of nontextual records requires extra care, state-of-the art equipment and special storage conditions to ensure that future generations will be able to replay them and experience them the way their original viewers did. Even then, the ever-accelerating digital revolution has promulgated many standards and formats for different types of records, making it exceedingly difficult to settle on standards that will stand the test of time. “If you give me a handful of digital files now, I can’t guarantee that they’re going to be around tomorrow, let alone a hundred years from now,” said Richard Green of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. Source: National Archives and Records Administration (via Twitter) (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:29:30 +0100 815542 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/05/now-online-february-2010-issue-of-the-library-of-congress-digital-preservation-newsletter/ Access the February, 2010 Issue (PDF) Articles Include: + The Library of Congress explores ways to release open source software + A new feature series on digitalpreservation.gov, “On the Leading Edge,” kicks off with a story about DigitalPreservationEurope + View the third release in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation video series – “Digital Natives Explore Digital Preservation” + The International Internet Preservation Consortium released a web archives registry + The Library of Congress presents a new Digital Preservation Podcast Series + News of recent meetings featuring Library of Congress staff: the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners Winter 2010 meeting and a Federal Web 2.0 Webinar + Upcoming Events: The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access one-day symposium on April 1, 2010 and Preservation Week, May 9-15, 2010 Source: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), LC (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:24:28 +0100 815554 http://freegovinfo.info/system/files/Jacobs-iconf2010-notes.pdf Shinjoung and I submitted a panel on the future of govt information for iConference 2010 in Champaign, IL. We had a good far-reaching discussion with Tom Bruce (Cornell Legal Information Institute), Daniel Schuman (Sunlight Foundation) and Cindy Etkin (GPO). Below are my slides and notes. I've also attached the notes and abstract as PDFs. As Tom tweeted, "World's problems: solved." If the other panelists agree, I'll post their notes/slides as well. This is of course an ongoing conversation so please feel free to leave comments, questions, rants etc. --that is all! Jacobs Iconfonference 2010 presentation View more presentations from James Jacobs. 3:45 - 5:15 pm Thursday, February 4, 2010 Roundtable 4 : : Technology Room "Gone today, Here tomorrow: assuring access to government information in the digital age." ShinJoung Yeo, University of Illinois; and James R. Jacobs, Stanford University Panelists: Shinjoung Yeo, Moderator James Jacobs, Stanford University Library Thomas Bruce (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University) Daniel Schuman (Sunlight Foundation policy director) Cindy Etkin (Govt Printing Office) [SLIDE 1: govt documents] Right up front, I'm a librarian and a collaborator in the LOCKSS distributed digital preservation project (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe). I've been in academia/education my whole life as a student, teacher, librarian and technologist. I've been a government information/FDLP librarian since 2002 and currently am serving a 3 year term on the Depository Library Council, the body which informs and advises the Govt Printing Office regarding issues of the Federal Depository Library Program (which Cindy talked about). So my mindset/perspective/bias is from one who assists in the scholarly communication process, one who believes that libraries have a place in the digital information landscape, and one who believes strongly in the idea that access to govt information is a fundamental right. ... Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:02:06 +0100 815492 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/ADbdj50UyJ0/ The International Internet Preservation Consortium has launched a web archives registry. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The registry offers a single point of access to a comprehensive overview of member web archiving efforts and outputs. Twenty-one archives from around the world are currently included; updates will be added as additional archives are made accessible by IIPC members. In addition to a detailed description of each web archive, the following information is included: Collecting institution Start date Archive interface language(s) Access methods (URL search, keyword search, full text search, thematic, etc.) Harvesting methods (National domain, event, thematic, etc.) Access restrictions The registry was put in place by the IIPC Access Working Group, which focuses on initiatives, procedures and tools required to provide immediate and future to access archived web material. The registry will also provide a basis for IIPC to explore integrated access and search in the future. Related Posts Harvard University Library Launched Web Archive Collection Service (WAX) Digital Preservation: Data Transfer from Internet Archive's Archive-It to LOCKSS Demonstrated Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums, 2009 Edition Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives iPRES 2008: Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:03:28 +0100 815572 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/04/international-internet-preservation-consortium-launches-web-archives-registry/ The International Internet Preservation Consortium has launched a web archives registry. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The registry offers a single point of access to a comprehensive overview of member web archiving efforts and outputs. Twenty-one archives from around the world are currently included; updates will be added as additional archives are made accessible by IIPC members. In addition to a detailed description of each web archive, the following information is included: Collecting institution Start date Archive interface language(s) Access methods (URL search, keyword search, full text search, thematic, etc.) Harvesting methods (National domain, event, thematic, etc.) Access restrictions The registry was put in place by the IIPC Access Working Group, which focuses on initiatives, procedures and tools required to provide immediate and future to access archived web material. The registry will also provide a basis for IIPC to explore integrated access and search in the future. Related Posts Harvard University Library OIS Releases File Information Tool Set Version 0.3.1 Library of Congress Launches Digital Preservation Podcast Series Center for Research Libraries Certifies Portico as Trustworthy Digital Repository Data Dimensions: Disciplinary Differences in Research Data Sharing, Reuse and Long Term Viability Insight into Digital Preservation of Research Output in Europe (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:03:02 +0100 815634 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/04/hong-kong-university-institutional-repository-uses-scopus-api-for-researcher-citation-data/ Researcher pages in Hong Kong University's institutional repository will be updated with citation data generated by Elsevier's Scopus API. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The Scopus API offers users the opportunity to creatively interact with Scopus data by building mashups. It also allows access and usage of Scopus data inside and outside of the traditional library domain through applications based on the API. The API returns Scopus data in a format that easily integrates into an application or a web site. The majority of Scopus data is already available through the API, which can currently be used to request very specific information about article references, citations and affiliations. HKU is the first institution to show Scopus h-index, and counts of citations, documents, and co-authors for each current HKU author across the institution, in its local institutional repository, The HKU Scholars Hub (The Hub). These details are shown on The Hub ResearcherPages, an expert profiling system which showcases the research of each current HKU author. HKU uses the Scopus API to build these pages, and update them in real time. The Scopus search API draws on live data from Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database. By using the API, HKU is able to populate The Hub with real-time Scopus information, increasing accuracy and enriching data with valuable citation information. The API also enables HKU to highlight its overall performance and automate the process of keeping faculty publication lists up to date through continuous electronic tracking of individual researcher output. Research metrics cumulated by paper, and by author, are brought seamlessly into The Hub and displayed on appropriate records. This flexibility is a result of a recent enhancement to the Scopus API which allows for easier and more scalable ways of implementing citation counts to instantly enrich the content available on a given platform. . . ... Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:01:57 +0100 815636 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/02/call-for-papers-ipres-2010.html Received via email. CALL FOR PAPERS 7th­­ International Conference on  Preservation of Digital Objects (IPRES 2010)              September 19 -- 24, 2010 Vienna, Austria http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/ipres2010 The Austrian National Library and the Vienna University of Technology are pleased to host the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010) in Vienna in September 2010. iPRES2010 will be the seventh in the series of annual international conferences that bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, and practices in preserving our digital heritage. Digital Preservation and Curation is evolving from a niche activity to an established practice and research field that involves various disciplines and communities. iPRES2010 will re-emphasise that preserving our scientific and cultural digital heritage requires integration of activities and research across institutional and disciplinary boundaries to adequately address the challenges in digital preservation. iPRES2010 will further strengthen the link between digital preservation research and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific data centres.SUBMISSIONSiPRES2010 will adopt a two-track scheme, focussing on research papers reporting on novel, previously unpublished work, as well as case studies and best practice reports. The conference programme will be designed to encourage interaction between these areas, rather than seeing them as separated fields. Furthermore, iPRES2010 will offer a set of tutorials on the Sunday preceding the conference, as well as focused workshops following the main conference. Submissions are invited for full and short papers, demos/posters, panels, workshops, and tutorials. All contributions will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee. ... Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 815070 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/cZ-ZWypr54o/call-for-papers-ipres-2010.html Received via email. CALL FOR PAPERS 7th­­ International Conference on  Preservation of Digital Objects (IPRES 2010)              September 19 -- 24, 2010 Vienna, Austria http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/ipres2010 The Austrian National Library and the Vienna University of Technology are pleased to host the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010) in Vienna in September 2010. iPRES2010 will be the seventh in the series of annual international conferences that bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, and practices in preserving our digital heritage. Digital Preservation and Curation is evolving from a niche activity to an established practice and research field that involves various disciplines and communities. iPRES2010 will re-emphasise that preserving our scientific and cultural digital heritage requires integration of activities and research across institutional and disciplinary boundaries to adequately address the challenges in digital preservation. iPRES2010 will further strengthen the link between digital preservation research and practitioners in memory institutions and scientific data centres.SUBMISSIONSiPRES2010 will adopt a two-track scheme, focussing on research papers reporting on novel, previously unpublished work, as well as case studies and best practice reports. The conference programme will be designed to encourage interaction between these areas, rather than seeing them as separated fields. Furthermore, iPRES2010 will offer a set of tutorials on the Sunday preceding the conference, as well as focused workshops following the main conference. Submissions are invited for full and short papers, demos/posters, panels, workshops, and tutorials. All contributions will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee. ... Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 815042 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/neX8N6a463A/ Stuart Lewis has released EasyDeposit, a toolkit for creating SWORD deposit interfaces. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: EasyDeposit allows you to create customised SWORD deposit interfaces by configuring a set of 'steps'. A typical flow of steps may be: login, select a repository, enter some metadata, upload a file, verify the information is correct, perform the deposit, send a confirmation email. Alternatively a deposit flow may just require a file to be uploaded and a title entered. A configuration file is used to list the steps you require. EasyDeposit makes use of the CodeIgniter MVC PHP framework. This means each 'step' is made up of two files: a 'controller' which looks after the validation and processing of any data entered, and a 'view' which controls the web page that a user sees. This separation of concerns makes it easy for web programmers to edit the controllers, and web designers to tinker with the look and feel of the interface in the views. Related Posts SWORD PHP Library Version 0.9 Word + SWORD + Ingester = Word to DSpace Deposit SWORD PHP Library Version 0.7 SWORD Named Most Innovative Project at JISC Repositories and Preservation Conference IR Deposit Using Embedded Document Metadata: Deposit Plait: Final Report (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:03:16 +0100 815577 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/02/peer-behavioural-research-authors-and-users-vis-vis-journals-and-repositories-baseline-report/ The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project has released PEER Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-à-vis Journals and Repositories; Baseline Report. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The PEER Behavioural Research Team from Loughborough University (Department of Information Science & LISU) has completed its behavioural baseline report, which is based on an electronic survey of authors (and authors as users) with more than 3000 European researchers and a series of focus groups covering the Medical sciences; Social sciences, humanities & arts; Life sciences; and Physical sciences & mathematics. The objectives of the Behavioural Research within PEER are to: Track trends and explain patterns of author and user behaviour in the context of so called Green Open Access. Understand the role repositories play for authors in the context of journal publishing. Understand the role repositories play for users in context of accessing journal articles. The baseline report outlines findings from the first phase of the research and identifies the key themes to emerge. It also identifies priorities for further analysis and future work. ... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 815836 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/02/paula-t-kaufman-named-2010-hugh-c-atkinson-award-winner/ Paula T. Kaufman, Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has won the 2010 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award, which is sponsored by ACRL, ALCTS, LLAMA, and LITA. Here's an excerpt from the press release: Named in honor of one of the pioneers of library automation, the Atkinson Award recognizes an academic librarian who has made significant contributions in the area of library automation or management and has made notable improvements in library services or research. . . . Kaufman has held a variety of positions over the course of her career. In addition to serving as head of the Business and Economics Library and director of the Library Services group at Columbia University, she was acting head of the East Asian Library in 1982 and acting vice-president for information technology and university librarian from 1987-88. During her tenure at Columbia, Kaufman was involved in the development of the university's Scholarly Information Center, a merger of the library and academic information technology. In 1987, Kaufman resisted the FBI's request to report on the reading habits of Columbia library patrons with last names or accents from "hostile countries." Her actions were instrumental in making the FBI's Library Awareness Program public. Kaufman additionally served as dean of libraries at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1988-99. In her current position at UIUC, Kaufman has worked with the library faculty and staff to re-envision the future, form new alliances and cultivate an environment of creative problem solving. ... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:03:52 +0100 815644 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/K8vmOVyFJv8/ Paula T. Kaufman, Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has won the 2010 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award, which is sponsored by ACRL, ALCTS, LLAMA, and LITA. Here's an excerpt from the press release: Named in honor of one of the pioneers of library automation, the Atkinson Award recognizes an academic librarian who has made significant contributions in the area of library automation or management and has made notable improvements in library services or research. . . . Kaufman has held a variety of positions over the course of her career. In addition to serving as head of the Business and Economics Library and director of the Library Services group at Columbia University, she was acting head of the East Asian Library in 1982 and acting vice-president for information technology and university librarian from 1987-88. During her tenure at Columbia, Kaufman was involved in the development of the university's Scholarly Information Center, a merger of the library and academic information technology. In 1987, Kaufman resisted the FBI's request to report on the reading habits of Columbia library patrons with last names or accents from "hostile countries." Her actions were instrumental in making the FBI's Library Awareness Program public. Kaufman additionally served as dean of libraries at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1988-99. In her current position at UIUC, Kaufman has worked with the library faculty and staff to re-envision the future, form new alliances and cultivate an environment of creative problem solving. ... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:03:52 +0100 815582 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/02/peer-behavioural-research-authors-and-users-vis-vis-journals-and-repositories-baseline-report/ The Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project has released PEER Behavioural Research: Authors and Users vis-à-vis Journals and Repositories; Baseline Report. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The PEER Behavioural Research Team from Loughborough University (Department of Information Science & LISU) has completed its behavioural baseline report, which is based on an electronic survey of authors (and authors as users) with more than 3000 European researchers and a series of focus groups covering the Medical sciences; Social sciences, humanities & arts; Life sciences; and Physical sciences & mathematics. The objectives of the Behavioural Research within PEER are to: Track trends and explain patterns of author and user behaviour in the context of so called Green Open Access. Understand the role repositories play for authors in the context of journal publishing. Understand the role repositories play for users in context of accessing journal articles. The baseline report outlines findings from the first phase of the research and identifies the key themes to emerge. It also identifies priorities for further analysis and future work. ... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:01:15 +0100 815646 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/F1t32Gcz1qo/ Speaker: Erin Thomas The speaker is from a digital repository, so the workflow and needs may be different than your situation. Their collections are very old and spread out among several libraries, but are still highly relevant to current research. They have around 15 people who are involved in the process of maintaining the digital collection, and email got to be too inefficient to handle all of the problems. The member libraries created the repository because they have content than needed to be shared. They started with the physical collections, and broke up the work of scanning among the holding libraries, attempting to eliminate duplications. Even so, they had some duplication, so they run de-duplication algorithms that check the citations. The Internet Archive is actually responsible for doing the scanning, once the library has determined if the quality of the original document is appropriate. The low-cost model they are using does not produce preservation-level scans; they’re focusing on access. The user interface for a digital collection can be more difficult to browse than the physical collection, so libraries have to do more and different kinds of training and support. This is great, but it caused more workflow problems than they expected. So, they looked at issue tracking problems. Their development staff already have access to Gemini, so they went with that. The issues they receive can be assigned types and specific components for each problem. Some types already existed, and they were able to add more. The components were entirely customized. Tasks are tracked from beginning to end, and they can add notes, have multiple user responses, and look back at the history of related issues. But, they needed a more flexible system that allowed them to drill-down to sub-issues, email v. no email, and a better user interface. There were many other options out there, so they did a needs assessment and an environmental scan. ... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:18:18 +0100 815590 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/02/coming-apri-1-2010-in-dc-blue-ribbon-task-force-hosts-symposium-on-economics-of-sustaining-digital-information/ From the Announcement: The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (BRTF-SDPA) will hold a one-day symposium convening a diverse group of speakers from the academic, private, and public sectors to discuss one of the most pressing issues of the Information Age: identifying practical solutions to the economic challenges of preserving today’s deluge of digital data. Called “A National Conversation on the Economic Sustainability of Digital Information”, the symposium will be held April 1, 2010 at The Fairmont in Washington, D.C. Scheduled to speak is a spectrum of national leaders from the Executive Office of the President, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian Museum, Nature Magazine, Google, and other organizations for whom digital information is fundamental for success. A preliminary agenda has been posted. The symposium will also provide a forum for discussion of the recommendations in the Blue Ribbon Task Force’s Final Report on economically sustainable digital preservation practices, to be issued in mid-February. When released, the report can be found online at http://brtf.sdsc.edu. Please visit http://brtf.sdsc.edu/symposium.html for a preliminary agenda for the BRTF-SDPA symposium. Seating is limited. General registration opens February 1 and will be on a first-come first-served basis by visiting http://brtf.sdsc.edu/symposium_reg.php. There are a limited number of spaces reserved for accredited media. The list of scheduled speakers is quite impressive. + William G. Bowen– President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + Daniel E. ... Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:05:07 +0100 814627 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/31/new-digital-archive-of-frank-lloyd-wright-work-at-florida-southern-college-link-to-another-flw-digital-collection/ From an Article: The Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr., Archives Center at Florida Southern College has launched two major digital collections related to the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright at FSC. The “Child of the Sun: Florida Southern College Digital Photograph Collection” comprises hundreds of vintage images from the 1930s to the 1950s, including seldom-seen photographs of the campus construction. “The Southern: Florida Southern College’s Student Newspaper Collection” represents the beginning of a keyword-searchable database of student newspapers that chronicle the history of the Wright project and other campus events. Both collections are accessible at http://archives.flsouthern.edu/cdm4/about.php Visiting Metadata/Catalog Librarian Rachel A. Bomberger selected materials, supervised the scanning, and cataloged each element of these archival collections. The project was funded through a grant received from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and is part of the McKay Archives’ plan to increase online resources. FSC’s new digital collections “are not only a valuable resource for Florida Southern College students, faculty, and alumni, but for the architectural and scholarly communities as a whole,” Bomberger said. “It is our hope that the digitization project will grow to include more historically valuable FSC collections.” See Also: Online Database: Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Digital Image Collection (Posted 12/15/2009) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:14:25 +0100 813899 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14330 University Archivist (Santa Clara University, California) SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVIST .5 FTE The primary responsibility of the University Archivist is to manage and coordinate all activities of the University Archives, and to assume, as time permits, responsibility for the care and management of other archival collections within the newly merged department of Archives and Special Collections. The University Archivist collects, organizes, describes, preserves, and provides assistance in the use of archival resources. ... Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:20:02 +0100 813379 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/29/new-video-digital-natives-explore-digital-preservation/ From the Web Site: Today’s teenagers depend on digital information for education and entertainment, but may not know that digital information can easily be lost. What do these “digital natives” think about the permanence – or impermanence – of digital content? “Digital Natives Explore Digital Preservation” is the third release in the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program video series. [It runs 3:48 and a text transcript (pdf) is also available]. The video features students participating in a recent workshop at the Library of Congress, where staff from NDIIPP and the Educational Outreach Division discussed why digital preservation is important. During the workshop, students were asked for their thoughts on the challenges of digital preservation. The video looks at how students answered three questions: + What should be saved? + Who is responsible for saving it? + What are the challenges in saving it? The Library is interested in understanding how teens view digital information and their ideas about keeping digital content available for future generations. After all, they are the next generation responsible for caring for our digital heritage. In addition to the previously released videos in the digital preservation series, the NDIIPP video collection features speakers and presentations. Source: NDIIPP (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:48:10 +0100 813210 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/34Ele1Rhdn0/ The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science is accepting applicants for the school's graduate certificate program in Digital Information Management (DigIn). IMLS-funded scholarships are available for students entering the program in 2010. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The DigIn program features hands-on experience and focused instruction supporting a wide range of professional careers involving digital systems and data. The certificate includes six three-credit courses designed to build students' hands-on technology skills, and to help students acquire the advanced knowledge needed to curate digital collections, manage digital projects, and to set policies for access and long-term preservation. In 2009, the first cohort of DigIn graduates completed their certificate requirements with practical "capstone" field projects in a broad range of professional settings, including the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan New York Library Council, the College of William and Mary, UC Riverside, the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives, Phoenix Public Library, Cochise County (AZ) Historical Society, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, and the Mohave Museum of History and Art. As one 2009 graduate noted: "DigIn broadened my knowledge of the history, trends, and best practices for digital collections. It has also given me the practical experience to tackle hands-on projects that require a deeper understanding of technology and information management. My work in the DigIn program is most certainly what led to me landing a job in a technology-heavy environment." For information professionals already working in the field, or those considering career changes, the DigIn certificate offers a flexible path for graduate studies. The program is delivered 100% online and has no residency requirements. ... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:06:22 +0100 813578