The Ten Thousand Year BlogArchivist-historian David Mattison's musings and Web tracks on digital culture preservation issuesMozilla Firefox 3 and Hyperword addon- June 30, 2008 Stumbled across the new release of Mozilla Firefox, aka Firefox 3. Sad to see that the Firebug addon is not yet compatible. But I came across a different fascinating addon called Hyperword from a British company. This amazing addon lets you highlight a word or words on a Web page and then select from a ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2348 EAD at 10: A Symposium, August 31, 02008, San Francisco, CA, USA- June 28, 2008 From the announcement on the Archives &038; Archivists list (02008 06 27): EAD at 10: a symposium Sunday, August 31st 02008, 9 am 4 pm, Hilton San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 1998 was a year that saw the introduction of Viagra, the iMac, and Euro coins. John Glenn returned to space via the Space Shuttle. There was ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2351 European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) closing up shop- June 28, 2008 The European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA) announced it is bringing its work to a close at the end of 02008 once the TAPE project is completed. ECPA was established in 1994 and hosted since that time by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In terms of information resource continuity, the announcement ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2350 Visuwords, online visual thesaurus and dictionary- June 27, 2008 Visuwords.com, according to its creator, the Logical Octopus, is an &8220;online visual thesaurus and dictionary.&8221; Visuwords uses a free English language lexical database from Princeton University called WordNet. You can download the source code for Visuwords at no charge and install it on your own server. Source: DIG_REF mailing list, 02008 06 26http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2352 American Geographical Society Library presents Tibet, a digital collection- June 26, 2008 The American Geographical Society Library launched a new digital collection titled simply Tibet that consists of historical photographs and maps from its holdings. The digital collection is hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a new addition to the AGSL Digital Collections Portal. For more historical photographs of Tibet see The Tibet Album: British Photography ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2353 Third issue of Code4Lib Journal with digital preservationarchiving articles- June 25, 2008 The third issue of the Code4Lib Journal has some articles on digital preservation and digital archiving. Source: WEB4LIB mailing list, 02008 06 24http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2346 Digital Document Quarterly, v. 7, no. 2 (02008) is out- June 25, 2008 H.M. Gladney&8217;s Digital Document Quarterly 7(2), 02008, is available at http:home.pacbell.nethgladneyddq_7_2.htm. Source: DDQ mailing list, 02008 06 24http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2347 |