Archive for the ‘Digital Repositories’ Category
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
From the Article:
Government data prepared for public reuse should be offered in multiple-formats, be machine-readable and adhere as closely as possible to lightweight standards, advised federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, speaking at the 2009 Government Web Managers conference held this week in Washington.
In March, when Kundra assumed the role of federal CIO, he promised that the federal government would set up a new repository, called Data.Gov, that would be populated with links and sources of data from federal agencies, which could be reused by citizens and organizations for their own Web applications.
See Also: Remixing government data
Source: GCN
Posted in Digital Repositories, Government Documents and Political Information, Info Management and Retrieval | No Comments »
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Direct to Archive
Included in the web archive are U.S. government sites, foreign government sites, public policy and political advocacy groups, educational organizations, religious organizations, support groups for military personnel, anti-war groups, sites that target children, and news sources.
This collection is part of a continuing effort by the Library of Congress to evaluate, select, collect, catalog, provide access to, and preserve digital materials for future generations of researchers.
This archive can be both searched and/or browsed.
Source: LC Web Archives
Posted in Digital Preservation, Digital Repositories, History, Info Management and Retrieval | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
From the Article:
Academic and research institutions are digitizing, preserving and distributing vast amounts of electronic content at an enormous rate today — from video, photos and animation, to research papers and visualization of scientific models. Like many universities, Penn State is striving to ensure that these immense electronic collections and storage repositories are easily accessible to users and will continue to be available to future generations.
“Digital library platforms will change, but our first priority will always be to provide students and faculty with access to the information they need,” said Saussure. “Needs such as these, in addition to the needs of faculty, staff, and our research partners at other institutions all need to be taken into account. With all these interrelated roles, being able to find information now, and long into the future, is just as important as how we store it.”
Saussure and his team have recently been collaborating with HP to test digital tools that can be used across all of Penn State’s many repository platforms. Primary among these tools is eXtensible Access Method (XAM), a new interface standard created by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) that is expected to help the University cohesively manage and provide access to its diverse digital library collections, electronic record archives, e-science and e-research data repositories.
“We’re talking about hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of information from many sources,” said Saussure. XAM is the digital glue that brings all these data repositories together.
Source: Penn State Live
Hat Tip: P.W.
Posted in Digital Preservation, Digital Repositories, Info Management and Retrieval | No Comments »
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Direct to Complete Issue (PDF)
Articles Include:
+ Universities Should Have an Institutional Repository
Affirmative: Soo Young Rieh | Negative: Kevin Smith
+ Libraries Should Lead the Institutional Repository Initiative and
Development at Their Institutions
Affirmative: Jim Ottaviani | Negative: Carolyn Hank
+ Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software
Affirmative: Paul Jones | Negative: Michael Day and Alexander Ball
+ Institutional Repository Success is Dependent Upon Mandates
Affirmative: Steve Harnad | Negative: Nancy McGovern
+ Apple, IKEA and Their Integrated Architecture
David Potente and Erika Salvini
+ Web 2.0 Applications of Geographic and Geospatial Information
Source: American Society for Information Science and Technology
Posted in Digital Repositories, Info Management and Retrieval, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
From a Post by Brewster Kahle:
Today the Internet Archive and Sun Microsystems are launching a new datacenter that stores the whole web archive and serves the Wayback Machine.
See Also: Learn More Here
Source: The Internet Archive
Posted in Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Digital Repositories, Info Management and Retrieval | No Comments »
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
From the Post:
MIT faculty have agreed on a mandate for all their research articles to be made available with a non-exclusive license. The content will be placed in a DSpace repository as a part of the university-wide mandate.
Much more in this article from the MIT paper The Tech
Source: dSpace/The Tech
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
From the News Release:
Experts and advocates examine the state of the art in digital repositories in a new series of videos now freely available online from SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition). Also, by popular demand, SPARC has announced it will host the third SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting on November 8 & 9, 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland.
The video series was taped at the November 2008 SPARC repositories meeting, and underscores the central role of repositories across library services. Particular emphasis is placed on the added value they contribute to the institution and on the importance of funding repository development even in lean economic times. The clips feature three full-length plenary addresses plus seven short interviews with leading-edge repository implementers, including:
• Ernie Ingles, Vice Provost and Chief Librarian at University of Alberta
• Michelle Kimpton, Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation
• Bonnie Klein, Information Collection/Copyright Specialist at the US Defense Technical Information Center
• Catherine Mitchell, Director of the eScholarship Publishing Group at California Digital Library (CDL)
• Sarah Shreeves, IDEALS Coordinator at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• David Shulenburger, Vice President for Academic Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC)
• John Wilbanks, Vice President for Science at Creative Commons
• Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications Inc.
Direct to Videos
Source: SPARC
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
From the Article:
Neil Grindley of JISC describes the importance of preserving digital information and some of the major projects that are helping with this.
Source: ResearchInformation (February/March 2009)
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
This issue focuses on news preservation.
Articles Include:
+ In This Issue
A foreword on CRL’s news preservation efforts.
+ “On the Record” – A Forum on Electronic Media and the Preservation of News
Summaries of presentations and discussions held at the forum, the challenges confronting libraries engaged in news preservation, and an agenda for concerted action for libraries, aggregators, and publishers.
+ World Newspaper Archive Update
Update on World News Archive, CRL’s collaborative initiative to preserve and digitize historical newspapers from around the globe.
Learn more about the World Newspaper Archive
Source: Center for Research Libraries
Posted in Digital Preservation, Digital Repositories, Search News | No Comments »
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
From the Executive Summary:
Digital repositories are developing rapidly as a key element of research cyberinfrastructure. Even when research institutions are grappling with difficult budget decisions in the current economic environment, they need to have a strategy for providing repository services.
Libraries are making diverse contributions to the development of many types of digital repositories, particularly those housing locally created digital content — including new digital objects or digitized versions of locally held works. In some instances, libraries are managing a repository and its related services entirely on their own, but often they are working closely with other stakeholders at their institutions to jointly develop repository services.
Direct to Complete Report (52 pages; PDF)
Source: ARL
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
From the News Release:
HathiTrust, a group of some of the largest research libraries in the United States collaborating to create a repository of their vast digital collections, and OCLC will work together to increase visibility of and access to items in the HathiTrust’s shared digital repository.
Launched jointly by the 12-university consortium known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the 11 university libraries of the University of California system, HathiTrust leverages the time-honored commitment to preservation and access to information that university libraries have valued for centuries. The group’s digital collections, including millions of books, will be archived and preserved in a single repository hosted by HathiTrust. Materials in the public domain and those where rightsholders have given permission will be available for reading online.
See Also: Learn More About the HathiTrust
HathiTrust Stats
Currently Digitized
+ 2,567,106 volumes
+ 898,487,100 pages
+ 95 terabytes
+ 30 miles
+ 2,086 tons
379,014 volumes (~15% of total) in the public domain
Source: OCLC / HathiTrust
Posted in Digital Repositories, Digitization Projects, Information Industry | No Comments »
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
From the Blog Post:
The content of Whitehouse.gov as it was on 20 January 2009 is available online via the National Archives site at:
http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/visit/bushgw.html.
Source: SLA Government Information Division Blog
Posted in Digital Preservation, Digital Repositories | No Comments »
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
From the News Release:
The University of Michigan and OCLC today announced that they have formed a partnership that will ensure continued public access to open-archive collections through the OAIster database, and will expand the visibility of these collections to millions of information seekers through OCLC services.
Launched in 2002 with grant support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, OAIster was developed to test the feasibility of building a portal to open archive collections using the Open Archives Initiative
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). OAIster has since grown to become one of the largest aggregations of records pointing to open archive collections in the world with over 19 million records
contributed by over 1,000 organizations worldwide.
Under the partnership, OAIster.org <http://www.oaister.org/> will continue to function as the public interface to OAIster collections, through funding provided by OCLC to the University of Michigan. Later in 2009, metadata harvesting operations will transfer from the University of Michigan to OCLC.
(SNIP)
Starting in late January 2009, while OAIster continues to be freely available at the www.oaister.org Web site, OCLC will host a version of OAIster on OCLC’s FirstSearch platform and make it available through subscriptions to the FirstSearch Base Package at no additional charge.
Direct to OAIster
Source: OCLC
Update: OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd? (via Info Today)
Posted in Cataloging and Metadata, Digital Repositories, Info Management and Retrieval, Search News | No Comments »
Friday, January 9th, 2009
Library of Congress Primary Sources by State
The extensive collections at the Library of Congress contain historic artifacts and cultural materials from across the U.S.
Source: LC
Posted in Digital Repositories, History, Resources | No Comments »
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
From the report:
European researchers have developed an optimised search system that can access an enormous quantity of cultural heritage resources that reside online. Current technology like Google takes a scattergun approach, dishing up dozens of links of sometimes variable quality.
“Right now, if you do a search online, you get lots of irrelevant overload,” explains Pasquale Savino, coordinator of the MultiMatch project, which set out to create state-of-the-art search technology for cultural heritage information.
The MultiMatch system targets searches using a variety of smart search methods. Better yet, the concept can be applied to other fields, like sport, politics, economics and technology.
“Consider that many portals already offer a specialised catalogue, but in many cases the selection and classification of data is done manually, while the MultiMatch platform can perform this work automatically,” Savino reveals.
Direct to MultiMatch Project
Source: Phys.org
Posted in Digital Repositories, Info Management and Retrieval, Search News | No Comments »
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
The multimedia magazine, FLYP, has a text and video interview with Brewster Kahle, the founder and leader of the Internet Archive. It’s interview is titled, “Know it All.” It includes images of the book scanning equipment at the IA.
Source: FLYP
Posted in Digital Preservation, Digital Repositories, Info Management and Retrieval, Libraries and Librarianship, Technology and Internet | No Comments »
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
From an email:
Thought leaders and practitioners from higher education and beyond called on participants at the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting in Baltimore on November 17-18 to continue their digital repository development efforts and offered strategies for building on experience gained to date.
In the opening keynote, John Wilbanks, who heads the Science Commons project at Creative Commons, pointed to the unique qualities of digital repositories, and the need to highlight their potential to serve the academic community in ways that other resources simply cannot. He encouraged universities to adopt open-access policies modeled after the one adopted by Harvard University earlier this year rather than inventing their own.
He also acknowledged the challenge of getting academics to post materials in a digital repository. “There seems to be a disconnect between the discussion of people planning to share the information and the amount of information being shared,” said Wilbanks. He suggested that more repository managers assist faculty in depositing their works and emphasize the prospect of making their scholarly research more visible.
(more…)
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
From the article:
Hitachi Data Systems is to become a supplier to the National Library of Scotland (NLS) in its work to build a digital archive; allowing it to ramp up its digitisation efforts.
The library’s Digital Repository (DR), which is starting to be populated with digital copies of the Library’s collection of over 14 million items which includes nearly 2 million maps and 100,000 manuscripts, is accessible to public viewers both within and outside Scotland and preserves almost 400 years of the country’s historical and cultural heritage.
As the legal deposit library for Scotland, NLS is entitled to claim a copy of each one of the 6,000 publications released in Great Britain every week. In 2004 the library adopted a new strategy of “Breaking through the Walls,” aiming to make its collections more accessible to a wider range of people no matter where they are located. With new titles being added daily, the library needed to ensure that its DR was not only available to current users but also able to grow substantially.
Source: PublicTechnology.net
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Tune It Up: Creating and Maintaining the Institutional Repository Revolution
The explosion of recent open access repositories and the future desire for global open access to scholarly communication has prompted the need to have more credible resources for new authors. This article highlights some of the areas in which creators need to be informed concerning repositories, including software information, peer-review advocacy, and the need for more literature on mature repositories and how they interact with scholarly communication.
+ Full Paper (PDF; 92 KB)
Source: Nicole Carpenter (via E-LIS)
Posted in Digital Repositories, Papers and Presentations, Scholarly Publishing, Source File | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
A content integrity service for digital repositories
We present a “content integrity service” for long- lived digital documents, especially for objects stored in digital repositories. The goal of the service is to demonstrate that information in the repository is authentic and has not been unintentionally or maliciously altered, even after its bit representation in the repository has undergone one or more transformations. We describe our design for an efficient, secure service that achieves this, and our implementations of two prototypes of such a service that we developed, most recently for DSpace. Our solution relies on one-way hashing and digital time- stamping procedures. Our service applies not only to transformations to archival content such as format changes, but also to the introduction of new cryptographic primitives, such as the new one-way hash function family that will be chosen by NIST in the competition that was recently announced [10]. In the face of recent attacks on hash functions, this feature is absolutely necessary to the design of an integrity- preserving system that is meant to endure for decades.
+ Full Paper (PDF; 156 KB)
Source: HP Labs
Posted in Digital Repositories, Papers and Presentations, Source File, Technology and Internet | No Comments »
