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  • Digital Curation Or Horder Syndrome?


    Advocate's StudioAuthority Authority: 422
    The news du jour is all about curation. Digital curation, that is. I have noted a higher than average concentration of writing on this topic over the past few days. Clearly, people are interested in it. And that makes good sense to me. What is digital curation? In its broadest sense, curation is the act of organizing ...
    1 day ago
  • Robert Scoble calls web curation a “billion-dollar opportunity”


    ShortFormBlogAuthority Authority: 571
    Here’s a test. Take a tweet of mine in your favorite reader like Seesmic or TweetDeck, click a single button on your iPhone and then type or leave some audio right underneath that Tweet and click another button to post it. Hint: you can’t. That, to me, is opportunity. Super-blogger/tweeter/nerd maven Robert ...
    1 day ago
  • Digital Curation and the Future of the Internet


    Online Media CultistAuthority Authority: 117
    My brain perks up when I notice some of the Internet’s leading voices saying similar things. Exhibit A : Steve Rubel is talking about digital curation and the role that brands can help play to find “good stuff.” In AdAge, Rubel notes that while Facebook and Google are dominating our attention online today, ...
    1 day ago
  • Web curation for November 22nd 2009 through November 23rd 2009


    TechLifeWebAuthority Authority: 115
    Sites that I found interesting for November 22nd 2009 through November 23rd 2009: From Twitter – RT @SkyGridTech Google Opens Chrome Extensions To Developers, Will Only Review Certain Ones ( http://bit.ly/87oQqL) From Twitter – RT @jackbrewster Animated map showing unemployment rate increase ...
    1 day ago
  • Closing the Digital Curation Gap Project


    DigitalKoansAuthority Authority: 480
    The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded $249,623 to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science for the Closing the Digital Curation Gap project. Heres an excerpt from the press release : Scientists, researchers, and scholars across the world generate ...
    2 days ago
  • CAS curates strychnine m.p. - ChemInfo Class 9


    Useful ChemistryAuthority Authority: 115
    What is going to distinguish chemistry databases as we move forward in this Web2.0 world? If I was unsure of it when I started teaching Chemical Information Retrieval 2 months ago, I certainly got my answer yesterday afternoon. Cristian Dumitrescu from CAS contacted me to discuss the problems I had encountered ...
    4 days ago
  • DuraSpace Reaches Out to Decision-Makers Through Open Source Development Process with Launch of Solution Communities


    DuraSpace BlogAuthority Authority: 123
    Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA At the heart of any open source project are the people who come together to create innovative software. Today DuraSpace , a non-profit organization that combines Fedora Commons and DSpace technologies, announced a launch of their Solution Community program to extend participation in open ...
    5 days ago
  • Attn. New England DuraSpace Community: Preservation and Archiving Seminar & Networking Reception, Northeastern U, December 10, 2009


    DuraSpace BlogAuthority Authority: 123
    Mountain View, CA Register today to join Sun Microsystems Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) and host Northeastern University for an information-packed day focused on open computing solutions and best practices in the digital preservation and archiving space. Duraspace will lead two breakout ...
    5 days ago
  • "Memento: Time Travel for the Web"


    DigitalKoansAuthority Authority: 480
    Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Robert Sanderson, Lyudmila L. Balakireva, Scott Ainsworth, and Harihar Shankar have self-archived " Memento: Time Travel for the Web " on arXiv.org." Heres an excerpt: The Web is ephemeral. Many resources have representations that change over time, and many of those ...
    5 days ago
  • Register Now – Engaging Communities for the Curation of Digital Products of Scholarly Endeavors Jan. 8, 2010


    Beyond the JobAuthority Authority: 130
    DigCCurr Public Symposium: Engaging Communities for the Curation of Digital Products of Scholarly Endeavors January 8, 2010 (8:30 AM – 5:00 PM) Explore strategies for engaging creators, curators, and users; meet other professionals working with digital collections; and participate in collaborative group ...
    5 days ago
  • New York Times ‘phases out’ NYTimesExtra – What’s the future for news curation?


    Josh ChandlerAuthority Authority: 126
    An article published at PaidContent.org on Wednesday 18th November discussed how New York Times online portal NYTimes.com was to ‘phase out’ the “Times Extra” on December 1st 2009. The service offered a way according to the copy on the homepage to “Enrich your news-reading experience” by aggregating ...
    5 days ago
  • "The Practice and Perception of Web Archiving in Academic Libraries and Archives"


    DigitalKoansAuthority Authority: 480
    Lisa A. Gregorys Masters theses, " The Practice and Perception of Web Archiving in Academic Libraries and Archives ," is available from the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Heres an excerpt: In order to dig deeper into possible reasons behind ...
    6 days ago
  • Workshops prior to the International Digital Curation Conference


    Digital Curation BlogAuthority Authority: 445
    Pre-conference workshops can be very useful and interesting; they can be a good part of the justification for attending a conference, giving an extended opportunity to focus on a single topic, followed by a broader (but shallower) look at many topics, at the conference itself. This time it is quite frustrating, as I ...
    6 days ago
  • DataONE to Deal With Data Deluge


    DuraSpace BlogAuthority Authority: 123
    This is the text of a press release from the University of California. Contact Patricia Cruise for more information. Santa Barbara, CA Researchers at the University of California have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE ( http://dataone.org ), a global data access and ...
    6 days ago
  • Between meaning culture and presence effects: contemporary biomedical objects as a challenge to museums


    Biomedicine on DisplayAuthority Authority: 422
    An  online-version  of Adam’s, Camilla’s and my essay ”Between meaning culture and presence effects: contemporary biomedical objects as a challenge to museums” is now available on the website of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science . Here’s the abstract of the paper: The acquisition and ...
    1 week ago
  • Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to Host “Digital Repositories, Data Curation, and The Cloud” Jan. 28-29


    DuraSpace BlogAuthority Authority: 123
    Denver, CO Join us at the All-Alliance Conference on Friday, January 29th for an exciting day of Cloud-, Data Durability-, and Repository-focused keynotes offered by Richard Katz, Vice President of EDUCAUSE and founding director of the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR); and Thorny Staples, Director of ...
    1 week ago
  • Web curation for November 16th 2009 through November 17th 2009


    TechLifeWebAuthority Authority: 115
    Sites that I found interesting for November 16th 2009 through November 17th 2009: Want to Build Your Own Super Accurate GPS? – Tomoji Takasu and Akio Yasuda of Tokyo University developed an inexpensive, open source RTK GPS that runs on a beagle board, and better yet, theyve posted instructions so you can do the ...
    1 week ago
  • Critical feedback on website needed!


    The HUMLab blogAuthority Authority: 119
    Hi everyone out there. I am reviewing this website Gallipoli, The first day, a 3D documentary site about the WW1 ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, on 25 April 1915 for a major journal and would like to ask for your input. The site recently won an Australian digital screen innovation award and is visually impressive. I am ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Meeting on university collections and their integration into everyday uni life


    Biomedicine on DisplayAuthority Authority: 422
    German-speaking medical museum curators should be interested in a symposium on university museums and collections to be held at the Humboldt University, Berlin, 18 – 20 February 2010 , organised by the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Kulturtechnik and the Berliner Medizinhistorischen Museum der Charite: Das ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Doing Lists the Wiki Way


    The AboutUs WeblogAuthority Authority: 400
    It’s now been a few weeks since Twitter released its lists functionality to everyone. It’s given the millions of people a chance to better organize the stream of information that flows endlessly from Twitter, and it’s safe to say that lists have been a big hit. Twitter isn’t the only one who sees the value ...
    2 weeks ago

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