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Digitisation Projects: South Africa: Google to Help Digitise Madiba [Nelson Mandela] and Tutu Archives
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, News, Resources
From the Official News Release: Google has today announced a $1,25 million (ZAR 8,6 million rand) grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, housed at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials about the life and times of […]
The report was released today and is available from the comScore web site. It’s a free download but you’ll have to register. A summary is available on the comScore blog. comScore presents the 2010 Canada Digital Year in Review, its annual report on the prevailing digital trends of the past year and their implications for […]
New Report: "Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses"
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
“Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses” was published by the Association of American University Presses. From the AAUP Web Site: This report a) identifies elements of the current scholarly publishing systems that are worth protecting and retaining throughout this and future periods of transition; b) explores business models of existing projects which […]
From ComputerWeekly.com The open source tool, called Droid (Digital Record Object Identification) has been designed to scan millions of files at a time and identify hundreds of different file formats, including most document, audio, video and image files in common use. Droid can identify more than 770 formats, using a combination of file format extensions […]
Access to Information: "FAA Moves to Limit Blockout System Hiding Private Jet Flights"
| Data Files, News
From a ProPublica Report: The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing rules that would prevent private plane owners from keeping their flight records secret unless they can provide a valid security concern. The FAA said the practice of blocking flights from real-time tracking data had created a transparency issue and cited a federal court ruling involving […]
Legal: Digitization Projects: "Missouri Supreme Court Cases From 1800s to Go on Web"
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News
From the Associated Press: The Missouri State Archives will be posting thousands of old state Supreme Court cases online for the public to view beginning late next year. [Clip] The agency will use the money to scan the Missouri Supreme Court’s original files in about 9,000 cases heard between 1821 and 1865. The scanned files […]
You can access the latest issue of Peter Suber’s “must read” monthly newsletter here. Even if you or your colleagues are not directly involved with open access issues it’s still important to be aware of current open access issues. Suber’s newsletter is an ideal way to do this. Articles in the March 2011 Issue Include: […]
A compilation of resources appearing in the February 2011 issue of College & Research Libraries News. It was compiled and written by Spencer Acadia, a psychology and sociology librarian at Texas Woman’s University. He is currently writing a Ph.D.. dissertation on Arctic health From the Introduction: What follows is an annotated list of Internet resources […]
Articles From Volume 16, Number 3 – 7 March 2011 Tweeting about TV: Sharing television viewing experiences via social media message streams Abstract HTML D. Yvette Wohn, Eun-Kyung Na Multimedia, interactive and hypertextual features in divergent online news platforms: An exploratory study of Flemish online news Abstract HTML Michael Opgenhaffen FYI: TMI: Toward […]
Internet Catches Updated Butterfly and Moth Website Why should we care about butterflies and moths? Thanks to butterflies, bees, birds, and other animal pollinators, the world’s flowering plants are able to reproduce and bear fruit. That very basic capability is at the root of many of the foods we eat. And, not least, pollination adds to […]
