Ours forever?
Cliff writes and interesting post about our online identities. The short summary is this – he posted a video for his staff use. He then deleted the account that held the video, only to find out that...
View ArticleNFAIS – User-Generated Content – Nature Precedings
I want to preface this by saying I will probably never ever need to use this tool – but it was really awesome sounding so I wanted to share it with you all! Hilary Spencer from Nature came to talk at...
View ArticleDigital Copies
Yesterday at the NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, one talk was about the rules for making sure you get a good deal when having an outside company scan and use your library content. Today, I was pointed to...
View ArticlePTSEM Digital Library
I know I haven’t spoken much about my new job, but now I have something big to announce. The Princeton Theological Seminary has signed with Mark Logic to assist in the development of our digital...
View ArticleSustaining the Digital Library: Symposium
This list of presentations from the Sustaining the Digital Library : Symposium, 13-14 September 2007, University of Edinburgh sounds interesting: 1. Keynote Presentation [pdf], Rick Luce, Vice Provost...
View ArticleNew Mark Twain Digital Collection
I just got this via a few of my mailing lists and thought I should share with you all. I'm happy to announce that today the University of California launched the beta version of Mark Twain Project...
View ArticleOpen Source MODS-generating software
Via Metadatalibrarians: The University of Tennessee Digital Library Center is proud to announce the release of the DLC-MODS Workbook, version 1.2 under the GNU General Public License version 3. The...
View ArticleMetadata Tools
I just read on a few quotes from the the report of the RLG Programs metadata practice survey on Lorcan Dempsey’s blog (I haven’t read the whole report yet) and wanted to add to his comments. The report...
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Stop Making Sense
Last night I attended a talk at Princeton title Stop Making Sense: On Collecting, Sorting and Presenting Data presented by Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA, San Francisco. I have to...
View ArticleLOC & Flickr
I taught a class on Thurs on the 2.0 Office. At the end I had some extra time so I showed some fun social tools that you can find professional uses for. One of these tools was Flickr. Well, it turns...
View ArticleUsing DOIs in Blogs
When I was at the Seminary we were looking for a persistent identifier for our digital collections. We ended up choosing to use DOIs. So, when I saw this press release I thought – cool – we made the...
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Code4Lib 2008: The Internet Archive
What a great way to open a conference like Code4Lib. The first keynote was presented by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. Brewster started by reminding us that the reason he was there talking to...
View ArticleRip this book?
Just the title makes me cringe! In this case, the word “rip” is used in the same way we use it when we refer to copying CDs: Could the publishing industry get Napsterized? That was my first thought...
View ArticleMaking Digital Archives Accessible
Someone sent me a neat article from the New York Times today. The article talks about how Sports Illustrated is opening up it’s archives for anyone to search. The article implies that this is the way...
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New Library 2.0 Gang Podcast
I posted about the new Library 2.0 Gang Podcast a little while ago only to find that I had jumped the gun. Now it is really really available – so check it out – subscribe – and listen often You can...
View ArticleTCDL: Karma – A Data Integration Tool
Today I got to attend a 1/2 day workshop at the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) on Karma and open source data integration tool. Pedro Szekely was our instructor and started by warning...
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