Category: Digital

Dec 21 2007

Databases, Digital, Europe, Open Access, Technology, USA, World

Million Book Project

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As the year comes to an end the Million Book Project has reached its goal of scanning and making freely available a million books! This project is spearheaded by the...

Nov 21 2007

Digital, Libraries, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Amazon.com’s Kindle

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Amazon.com just launched a new electronic reader called Kindle. This new device is said to hold as many as 200 books and weights only 10.3 onces. Its screen seems to...

Nov 16 2007

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

WorldCat Local

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Not too long ago OCLC rolled out a new OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) of sorts. This new tool known as WorldCat Local offers a three tiered display of cataloged...

Oct 18 2007

Digital, Europe, Language, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

A World Digital Library is coming together after an agreement signed yesterday between Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communications and Information, and James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress...

Aug 29 2007

Archives, Digital, Open Access, Photographs, Technology, USA, World

Apollo Moon Photographs

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In the 1970’s the various Apollo missions took a number of highly detailed photographs of the moon which have been seen only by a handful of scientist. For three decades...

Jul 31 2007

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Open Library

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Open Library is a new project starting out in San Francisco, CA, but global in scope. It aims at creating a single database for all book ever published! This massive...

Jul 16 2007

Digital, Libraries, Technology, USA

IRENE – Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, etc.

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IRENE (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, etc.) is a new technological development that will help in the preservation of millions of sound recordings that are currently being lost because of lack...

May 22 2007

Databases, Digital, Law, Libraries, World

Copyrighting Traditional Knowledge

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A recent file for copyright of Birkam yoga has attracted new attention to the Indian government’s efforts to safeguard their traditional knowledge. The Indian government has put a group together...

May 11 2007

Databases, Digital, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Encyclopedia of Life

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Later this year the project to create an Encyclopedia of Life will pick up speed for this ambitious project. The encyclopedia was first proposed by scientist E.O. Wilson who wished...

May 04 2007

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

April 16 Archive

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Just a couple of weeks after the incidents at Virginia Tech, the university’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) with help from George Mason University’s Center for History of...