Dlist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rathinasabapathy, G (2006) Building Digital Libraries by using Open Source Software: Opportunities and Challenges. In Rathinasabapathy, G, Eds. Proceedings National Conference on "Digital Libraries: From Technology to Culture", pages pp. 68-73, Coimbatore, INDIA.
Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recently I had a digitization service bureau mention the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. to me. Among the member companies are organizations that we know are involved in digitization, e.g., Amazon, Google and Microsoft. One of the BISG's committees is the Digital Standards Committee . This committee's purpose is to " develop – with input from all relevant constituencies – industry-wide standards for...
Programmable Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, whose long-term goal is to present "one web page for every book ever published." A recent release of the Open Library brought the total number of book records to over 13.4 million (including over 234,000 records with full-text for the book).
Privacy Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senators Ask FBI to Explain Flawed 'National Security Letter' to Internet Archive - Via Threat Level : A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is asking FBI head Robert Mueller to explain why the feds sought records from the Internet Archive, a digital library, using a controversial administrative subpoena known as a National Security Letter, which is intended for a communications service providers. The...
The Real Paul Jones (Free subscription) | yesterday
I just heard via twitter that an old net.friend had died. I met Steve Cisler at INET 93 when he was working for Apple as their digital libraries guy. Steve saw the Internet as a great place for public libraries even then. He had been involved in WAIS, Gopher and other projects already having helped [...]
Household Opera (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
This week's readings for my Digital Libraries class turned out to be some of my favorites of the term so far. Favorite #1: "The Social Life of Documents," by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, an essay that later became...
Booksquare (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The locked-in perception of the book as a unit or a product has also led to digital ‘strategies’ which largely consist of the digitisation of existing print texts in order to create eBooks. This in turn has led to an obsessive focus on the reading device and a perception that the emergence of a ‘killer [...]
Catalogablog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The California Digital Library (CDL) is pleased to announce a new release of its search and display technology, the eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) version 2.1. XTF is an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. XTF offers efficient and practical methods for creating customized end-user interfaces...
The Real Paul Jones (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
It's about time for this! Google Friend Connect is out (sorta, you can ask to get to try it out as I just have). I wrote in “Open (source)ing the doors for contributor-run digital libraries.[PDF]” Communications of the ACM. Volume 44 , Issue 5 (May 2001) and in a Japanese edition [PDF] in 2003 that “By [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Direct to Abstract and Full Text Link by: Quinn, A., Hu, C., Arisaka, T., Rose, A., Bederson, B. (May 2008) Readability of scanned books in digital libraries. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI ‘08. ACM, New York, NY, 705-714. Source: Human Computer [...]
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Greenstone Search Bar - Firefox New Zeeland digital library.
hangingtogether.org (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
During Merrilee’s and my visit to the Boston Public Library last Friday, Tom Blake and Maura Marx introduced us to the results of the BPL's digitization of its fore-edge books—books with paintings on their edges that can be viewed only by looking at the sides of the book. Some are “double fore-edge” books – one [...]
Smartmobs (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor helped you find a job, and helped ease you into middle age. Now he wants to help you build the last web page you'll ever need. Tributes.com is scheduled for a soft launch in June. It aims to provide a central location to [...]
Paperback Writer (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
If you like ambient or experimental music, but don't have a lot of cash to spend on CDs, Webbed Hand Records offers more than 100 albums free to download, including their first compilation for 2008, String Ambient . The texts section of the Internet Archive offers over 400,000 open-access texts that are free to read, download, print and enjoy (some restrictions on bulk re-use or commercial use.) The...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Patna: Adequate funds will be provided to the directorate of State archives to ensure digitisation of rare documents, including those that shed light on Bihar’s contribution to the freedom struggle, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ...
