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• A virtual tour of the Nashville Public Library Digital Collection

  
  The Posterity Project — Authority: 118
  Its been a few posts since my last visit on the virtual tour of Tennessees digital collections, so I thought I would end the work week with a brief visit to The Nashville Public Librarys Digital Collection . The Nashville Public Librarys Digital Collection includes scenes from Music Citys past, including ...
  6 days ago

• IMLS features Volunteer Voices

  
  The Posterity Project — Authority: 118
  In a November 2009 update on its web site, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) profiled "Volunteer Voices" , a digital museum of nearly 11,000 documents and images related to Tennessee history now used in classrooms throughout the state. Librarians have used a three-year, $928,000 grant from the IMLS ...
  1 week ago

• Launch of Fürer-Haimendorf Photographic Collection at SOAS

  
  ulcc da blog — Authority: 110
  I spent some of Friday at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for the launch of the Fürer-Haimendorf Photographic Archive , a JISC-sponsored digitisation project that makes available the fantastic collection of photographs of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas taken by Christoph von Fürer ...
  1 week ago

• Archive Mind

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 477
  Im fascinated with the politics of national libraries, as the chapter about book digitization in the Virtualpolitik book makes clear, and I have long argued that media studies needs to be more engaged with archival policy and the rhetorics of library science. So I certainly was interested to see Geert Lovinks ...
  2 weeks ago

• DiSCmap: Digitisation in Special Collections: Mapping, Assessment, Prioritisation. Final Report.

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 478
  JISC has released DiSCmap: Digitisation in Special Collections: Mapping, Assessment, Prioritisation. Final Report. . Heres an excerpt: In its widest sense the project contributes towards preliminary evidence on user-driven priorities which could help in the process of allocation of funding for digitisation ...
  2 weeks ago

• Perfect Altruism

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 477
  Sergey Brins editorial in the New York Times about Google Book Search, which I write about in the Virtualpolitik book , " A Library to Last Forever ," contains a number of noteworthy rhetorical features. Perhaps Brin is at his most disingenuous when he repeatedly expresses a wish for competition, which Google ...
  3 weeks ago

• Omeka 1.1 Released

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 478
  Version 1.1 of Omeka has been released. Omeka is a "free and open source collections based web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts." Heres an excerpt from the announcement : In 1.1., users will have more control over their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Archivists Toolkit Version 2.0 Released

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 478
  The Archivists Toolkit version 2.0 has been released. Heres an excerpt from the announcement : New features added to AT 2.0 include: Revised Digital Object module, so that Digital Object records can be created and managed independent of Resource records. Tab-delimited Digital Object import Batch export of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Captcha or Gotcha

  
  virtualpolitik — Authority: 477
  The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting on unusual collaborations being formed around so called "captcha" technologies that can do double duty by aiming to screen out non-human spambots while also on capitalizing on free labor from human agents. " Google Says Gotcha to ReCaptcha, the Word-Puzzle Company ...
  8 weeks ago

• A virtual tour of the Digital Library of Appalachia

  
  The Posterity Project — Authority: 118
  Todays stop on my virtual tour of Tennessees digital archives is The Digital Library of Appalachia . According to the DLA web site , the Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents ...
  8 weeks ago

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