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Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Earlier this year, David Hansson and Gunilla Wiberg of Sweden started a blog on digitization. The About section says (translated into English by Google): We are interested in publishing similar material on the Web through digitization (image capture, optical character recognition, textuppmärkning, work with metadata, archiving files, etc.). Here we collect links and other information we find to be...
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Science Quick Picks (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive, a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers. The goal of NASA Images is to increase [...]
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Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
On Sept. 30, the web sit e for the U.S. Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative became available to the public. According to the email announcement: The initiative represents a collaborative effort to establish a common set of guidelines for digitizing historical materials. Under this initiative, two Working Groups have been established. The Still Image Working Group will focus its efforts...
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librarian.net (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
“I’m a librarian. What I am trying to do is bring all of the world’s knowledge to as many people as want to read it. The idea of using technology is perfect for us.” Brewster Kahle gives a twenty minute talk about free culture and libraries and digitzation at TED.
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DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative has launched its Website. Here's a summary from the home page: This site is a collaborative effort by federal agencies formed as a group in 2007 to define common guidelines, methods, and practices to digitize historical content in a sustainable manner. Recognizing that the effort would require specialized expertise, two separate [...]
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A Guide to Digital Collections (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cmt/ This collection consists of more than 2,500 television interviews with prominent authors of fiction and nonfiction taped over the last 30 years. The “Connie Martinson Talks Books” television series originates from L.A. CityView Channel 35 and can be seen on government-access cable outlets around the country and PBS in New York. Included in the collection...
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Have Coffee Will Writ (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first...
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Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
The need for digitization training continues and while some areas are able to hold many workshops, others must turn to online resources and hands-on training. Therefore, it is always good to see new training materials being developed like these at the National Library of Australia. Quoting the web site: ...the National Library explored possible [training] alternatives and in due course developed a...
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Parks Associates (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Digitization of media is rapidly changing the interaction between media companies and consumers. As recently as 2006, ABC was accused of being a heretic when it started to release full episodes of its primetime TV shows online for free. Today, the practice is ALMOST mainstream. Media companies realize (some just a little bit faster than others) that digitization and prevalence of inexpensive broadband...
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iface thoughts (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Indian Linux Users Group made a presentation on how FOSS can be effective in implementing GIS in India. I remember this client who took about 3-4 months to acquire a piece of software that would have proved a lot more beneficial at an earlier stage. The delay was attributed to debates about number of licenses, [...]
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Library Visit 2Took the bus to SFU . Presentations included The information commons open source software innovations digitization projects.
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Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
SAVE THE DATE - San Diego 2009 Digital Directions : Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections May 27-29, 2009 Westin San Diego San Diego, California For more information on the Digital Directions conference content and audience, see: www.nedcc.org Technorati tag: Digitization
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India Press Release (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
/India PRwire/ - TVS Motor Company Limited has won two coveted IT Awards, bagging the SAP ACE 2008 Awards for Customer Excellence and the 2008 Symantec South Asia Visionary Award . While the company won the SAP ACE Award for digitization of New Product Development process in SAP by implementing PLM (Product Life Management), the Symantec South Asia Visionary Award was conferred for the way the company...
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A Library Writer's Blog (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
CFP: World Digital Libraries: An International Journal The Editor of World Digital Libraries: An International Journal (WDL) invites Papers for the December 2008 and June 2009 issue. World Digital Libraries: An International Journal is a peer reviewed bi-annual journal on digital libraries. The first issue of this journal has just been published. Content can be found at http://bookstore.teriin.org/journal_inside.php?material_id=477&qty=1...
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Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
If you look through the "call", you'll see that this conference does have a digitization element to it. -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 20 October 2008 -- IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2009 February 25-28, 2009 – BARCELONA, SPAIN ( http://www.esociety-conf.org/ ) * Conference Background and Goals The IADIS e-Society 2009 conference aims to address the main issues of concern...
