Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter
In this issue:
* Digital Preservation Pioneer: Caroline Arms
* Information about open sustainable formats
* Updates from digital preservation partners
Source: LC
From the summary:
Our DCC [Digital Curation Centre] Curation Lifecycle Model provides a graphical high-level overview of the stages required for successful curation and preservation of data from initial conceptualisation or receipt. The model can be used to plan activities within an organisation or consortium to ensure that all necessary stages are undertaken, each in the correct sequence. The model enables granular functionality to be mapped against the it; to define roles and responsibilities, and build a framework of standards and technologies to implement. It can help with the process of identifying additional steps which may be required, or actions which are not required by certain situations or disciplines, and ensuring that processes and policies are adequately documented.
Direct to Complete Chart (1 page; PDF)
Source: DCC
Caroline Arms came to the Library of Congress in 1995 to work on the American Memory project, but the looming challenge of preserving digital content caught her attention.
Source: Library of Congress
A professor and a curator at the University of Utah have created a Web site devoted to European dance, theater, and visual arts from 1600 to 1850. Called Dramatis Personae Archive, the site includes rare digitized books, maps, newspapers, and journals from the university’s J. Willard Marriott Library.
Source: Wired Campus
From the British Library News Release:
Free engravings to give away to every reader, satirical stories about the Royal Family and advice on whether it is correct for a recently widowed husband to marry his sister-in-law: these aren’t press features from today’s newsstands but from papers 150 years ago. All of this material becomes freely accessible as the British Library, Birkbeck College, King’s College London and Olive Software launch a complete digital edition of six 19th Century newspapers and periodicals on 13 May. Selected for their rich variety and originality, the titles offer a fascinating glimpse into 19th century life, and will resonate with students, researchers and the general public interested in subjects ranging from history, theology and politics through to art and feminism.
The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is a unique digital resource, which gives the user an informative, accessible and authentic experience of 19th century newspapers. The collection illustrates the phenomenal growth and transformation of the press in the 19th century and brings to life a society and century in flux.
Source: BL
ProQuest has launched The John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded a unique partnership between ProQuest and the Bodleian Library to digitise more than 65,000 items from the Bodleian Library’s John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. The John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera, which will be the largest collection of its kind, is now available free of charge to all staff and students in colleges and universities in the UK through funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme, and available through ProQuest for purchase and subscription to libraries worldwide.
Source: ProQuest
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA) are pleased to announce that new funds will be made available through the Archival Community Digitization Program for the fiscal year 2008-2009. Funding will be provided through the Canadian Memory Fund, as part of the Department of Heritage’s Canadian Culture Online Funding Programme.
Source: LAC
+ New Grant Program to Fund Cataloging of Hidden Collections
+ Many More than a Million: Building the Digital Environment for the Age of Abundance
+ Faculty Research Behavior Workshops: A Librarian’s Perspective
+ Who Uses Institutional Repositories and Mass-Digitized Collections?
+ CLIR Names 2008 Rovelstad Scholarship Recipient
+ 2008–2009 Mellon Dissertation Fellows Named
Source: Council on Libraries and Information Resouces
Today is World Book and Copyright Day!!!
Let’s Celebrate!!!
Source: UNESCO
The first draft of Charles Darwin’s “On The Origin Of Species” is among a wealth of papers belonging to the intensely private man who changed science being published on the Internet on Thursday for the first time.
Comprising some 20,000 items and 90,000 images, the release on darwin-online.org.uk is the largest in history, according to the organizers from Cambridge University Library which holds all the Darwin papers.
Here’s the opening portion of the job posting:
The Open Content Alliance is seeking an experienced individual for the role of Executive Director. This individual will become the leader and public face of a vital association of nearly 100 cultural and academic institutions that are working to build joint online collections and engage in activities that support the open sharing of information. The Director’s mission will be to lead growth of the OCA to a new level of influence and activity, possibly including evolution to an independent non-profit organization.
Source: OCA
Endangered Movable Objects and their Untold Stories - Vol. 1: Ritual Objects
PDF. 345 pages.
Edited by Einat Ron and Ariella Amar.
Vol. 1. includes 95 ritual objects.
Vol. 2. will include 5 Illuminated Manuscripts.
Source: Center for Jewish Art in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UNESCO
+ Digital Desires: What Are Museums Up To?
by Layna White, Editor of Special Section
+ Doing the DAM: Digital Asset Management at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Shyam Oberoi
+ Securing Digital Content
by Sally Hubbard
ANNUAL MEETING COVERAGE
+ The Role of Universites in the Preservation of Cultural Memory
by Steve Hardin
FEATURES
+ Let Them Write English
by Elise Langdon-Neuner
+ Defining an Agenda for Human-Centered Computing
by Andrew Sears, Jonathan Lazar, Ant Ozok and Gabriele Meiselwitz
+ Exploring Exploratory Search
by Mark Nolan
Source: ASIST
From the announcement:
The Library of Congress and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) today announced a partnership in the history of science of the Arab and Islamic worlds. The Library and KAUST will jointly convene an international advisory committee of leading scholars and curators to map out a strategy for identifying, selecting, digitizing, cataloging, annotating, and promoting scholarly research about manuscripts and other rare and unique materials relating to science in the Arab and Islamic worlds, and for including these materials in the World Digital Library (WDL) and other digital library projects.
Source: Library of Congress
From the information web site:
This project will provide online access to some of the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. The digitisation of around 23,000 paper copy pamphlets, which focus on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century, will provide researchers, students and teachers with an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain.
Source: CURL