Tag: Digital

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...

May 01 2007

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

eFIL – Electronic Information For Libraries

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Yesterday I attended a fascinating lecture on eIFL which is an independent consortium for library consortia. Basically what it does is help libraries in the developing world access online journals...

Apr 28 2007

Digital, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Semacodes

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A Semacode is a machine-readable, Data Matrix symbol which encodes URLs; basically it’s a barcode for web locations. The idea is to create one of these labels which looks like...