The Ten Thousand Year BlogArchivist-historian David Mattison's musings and Web tracks on digital culture preservation issuesThe joy of Lemon8-XML- June 21, 2008 From the announcement I received on 02008 06 20 about the first public release of the Lemon8-XML source code from the Public Knowledge Project (PKP): The Public Knowledge Project is very pleased to announce the public beta release of Lemon8-XML (http:pkp.sfu.calemon8) available to download and install. Lemon8-XML is a web-based application designed to make it easier for ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2343 The Devil Is In the Details, or, What Demon Lurks Beneath the Cameras Focusing Cloth- June 17, 2008 While visiting the City of Vancouver Archives Web site on June 16, 02008, I couldnt help but notice an ad for the Bullen Photo Co. at 518 West Hastings St. in Vancouver. What caught my eye was the clearly demonic or devilish figure beneath the cameras focusing cloth. Harry Elder Bullen (1880-1963), otherwise known as H.E. ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2340 CFP for Adding value to data: Digital Repositories in the e-Science world- June 15, 2008 From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 06 14): Adding value to data - Digital Repositories in the e-Science world Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http:escience2008.iu.edu) December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http:www.dresnet.net) There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between gride-science technologies and a cluster ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2344 BagIt, a new digital collection transfer spec from the Library of Congress and and California Digital Library- June 14, 2008 According to the June 02008 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter, the Library of Congress and the California Digital Library have jointly developed a format for transferring digital content. BagIt is based on the concept of bag it and tag it, where digital content is packaged (the bag) along with a small amount of machine-readable ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2339 ResearchGATE out in the Web 2.0 arena- June 13, 2008 Another social and research networking opportunity for scientists and researchers highlighted by Gerry McKiernan on his blog. According to ResearchGATEs front page, ResearchGATE is a new free of charge web 2.0 platform designed for the need of researchers. With this new platform we want to change the world of science by providing a global and powerful ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2345 UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme evaluation report released- June 5, 2008 From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATIONJISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 06 05): The JISC-funded UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme has recently been evaluated and the report is now available on the JISC website at: http:www.jisc.ac.ukmediadocumentsprogrammespreservationuklockssevaluation.pdf LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an e-journal archiving system which enables institutions to keep licensed e-journal content on local servers so that in the event ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2338 The day I brought the Internet to its knees- June 5, 2008 Ok, it was really just my own domain. My former Web hosting provider gave me zero advance warning and suspended my account with two options due to server overload: upgrade to a dedicated server with them or find another hosting company. After quickly researching both options, I ended up cancelling and switching to a Virtual ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2337 Hit Me with Your Best Doc, my latest article for Searcher magazine- June 1, 2008 My latest article for Searcher magazine on document-sharing services, Hit Me with Your Best Doc, is the lead cover story for June 02008. Its not available online, however, but will appear in some of the commercial full-text databases and can also be purchased through ITI-InfoCentral.com, the digital archive of Information Today, Inc. (ITI) publications.http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2335 Chinese-Canadians: Profiles from a Community, a wiki-based project from two public cultural institutions- June 1, 2008 In a historic first in Canada, the Vancouver Public Library and the Library and Archives Canada have partnered to establish a wiki in support of a project called Chinese-Canadians: Profiles from a Community. The wiki is also part of a larger VPL-led initiative on Chinese-Canadian Genealogy. The Library and Archives Canada also released a database ...http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/?p=2334 |