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Information Today
September 10, 2009
Susanne Bjorner |
Europeana and Digitization: The Collaboration Is Only Beginning The recently released "Next Steps" planning communication from the European Commission (EC) gives Europeana just praise as a showcase for European cultural artifacts.   |
Information Today
November 24, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
Europeana.eu Launches--Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well, but Temporarily Speechless The European Union-funded collaboration provides free access to some 2 million digital objects from libraries, museums, archives, and audio-visual collections in 27 member European countries. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
Oldman et al. |
Realizing Lessons of the Last 20 Years: A Manifesto for Data Provisioning & Aggregation Services for the Digital Humanities (A Position Paper) This paper addresses the complex issues of large scale cultural heritage data integration crucial for progressing digital humanities research. |
Information Today
June 28, 2012
Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2013
Jett et al. |
A Model for Providing Web 2.0 Services to Cultural Heritage Institutions: The IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study The Flickr Feasibility Study was launched in 2009 to determine how aggregators might provide intermediary services for cultural heritage institutions wishing to engage in Web 2.0 initiatives, shed light on both needs and models for aggregation services. |
Information Today
January 25, 2010 |
TV Archive Project to Supply Europeana EUscreen is a new project that will supply TV archive footage to Europeana. |
Information Today
October 31, 2011 |
European Commission Recommends Member States Boost Digitization Efforts The European Commission adopted a Recommendation on Digitization and Digital Preservation, asking member states to step up their efforts, pool their resources, and involve private actors in digitizing cultural material and making it available through Europeana. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Korn et al. |
In Brief and In the News Linked data in the humanities... Low-cost digitization of cultural heritage materials... New tool to increase use of in-copyright works... |
Information Today
January 9, 2012 |
'Yes We Scan' Petition Sent to President Individual agencies have thought about the problem in terms of prototypes and pilots. Only the White House can bring these efforts together under one roof and begin to think in terms of a national digitization strategy for our federal government. |
D-Lib
December 2007
Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |
Information Today
May 27, 2010 |
Europeana Publishes Public Domain Charter Europeana says it is publishing the Charter because the Public Domain is under threat. |
D-Lib
February 2001
Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one... |
Information Today
September 13, 2012 |
Europeana's Huge Cultural Dataset Opens for Free Re-Use For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose -- creative, educational, commercial -- with no restrictions. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012 |
In Brief and In the News UNESCO endorses the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries... Can culture on the web change peoples lives?... Europeana reaches 20 million items... |
D-Lib
December 2008
Larson et al. |
Information Access to Cultural Heritage Workshop Report: ECDL 2008, Aarhus Denmark, 18 September 2008 The program featured reports on the state-of-the-art with European infrastructure and content aggregation and tools for supporting access to multimedia formats. It concluded with a panel discussion on future trends. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011 |
In Brief and In the News Report on the International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives 2011... Report on the Fourth Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries... UNC's Digital Innovation Lab: Fostering Public Digital Humanities... |
D-Lib
June 2009
Evens & Hauttekeete |
Unlocking Audio: Towards an Online Repository of Spoken Word Collections in Flanders Currently, Flanders lags behind other European regions when it comes to using innovative tools to facilitate access to its oral history collections. |
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In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers... |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2012 |
In Brief and In the News SPRUCE project tackles digital preservation challenges with hands on events... The TIMBUS project - timeless business processes and services... Orphan works and mass digitization: obstacles and opportunities... |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2014
Wickett et al. |
Representing Cultural Collections in Digital Aggregation and Exchange Environments In this article, we present specific roles that collections can play in digital aggregations, representational requirements that arise from those roles, and modeling strategies for meeting the requirements. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Perkins, Dawson & Geber |
Beyond Productivity: Culture and Heritage Resources in the Digital Age Members of the Cultural Content Forum discussed information, technology, and creative practices to better understand digital cultural content for e-learning and audience engagement at their fourth annual meeting. |
D-Lib
May 2003
Tanner & Deegan |
Exploring Charging Models for Digital Cultural Heritage in Europe The authors explore and report upon the pricing practice and policy for the transition to digital for a wide range of cultural and heritage organisations. |
D-Lib
January 2002
Tony Gill |
Re-inventing the Wheel? Standards, interoperability and digital cultural content... |
Information Today
September 6, 2012 |
OCLC Member Libraries Can Contribute Metadata to Europeana.eu Portal OCLC member institutions will be able to contribute metadata derived from OCLC's WorldCat database to the Europeana.eu portal in a manner that is consistent with OCLC's WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Branin et al. |
In Brief LIS Editors Launch Effort to Develop Best Practices for LIS Journals... Carolina Digital Library and Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service... etc. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012 |
In Brief and In the News IMLS Awards Grant to Engage Libraries... Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack... NPG expands Creative Commons Attribution license options... |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2009 |
In Brief Contributors offer updates on various digital library research and initiatives. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2014 |
In Brief and In the News NISO Altmetrics Project: Standardizing New Alternative Assessment Metrics... Purposeful Gaming and Biodiversity Heritage Library... ACM Launches New E-Books Series Covering Entire Spectrum of Computer Science Topics... |
Information Today
October 18, 2010
Susanne Bjorner |
Creative Commons Releases Public Domain Mark Creative Commons announced the release of a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public and allows easy discovery of such works on the internet. |
Information Today
August 23, 2012 |
OCLC and Europeana Work to Improve `Similar Object' Browsing OCLC and Europeana are collaborating to investigate ways of creating semantic links among the millions of digital objects that are accessible online through Europeana.eu in order to improve "similar object" browsing. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2015
Oliver & Knight |
Storage is a Strategic Issue: Digital Preservation in the Cloud The purpose of this paper is to document the decision taken to outsource the storage of the National Library of New Zealand's National Digital Heritage Archive, and in so doing provide some empirical evidence to assist other institutions worldwide facing similar decisions. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News Linked Data for Climate Research... Project Cumulus - Getting Services from the Cloud... SURFACE Launch... etc. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2009 |
In Brief File Information Tool Set (FITS): A new tool for digital preservation repositories... Meet RODA, an open-source repository for digital preservation... A compact for open-access publication... etc. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News PREMIS in METS Toolbox... EUscreen: Accessing and exploring European television heritage... Content Lifecycle Integration Framework (CLIF)... CeDAAME... Terrier 3.0 Release Announced... etc. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations... |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
InternetNews
August 31, 2009 |
EU Commissioner Praises Google Books Project Official praise from overseas as controversial settlement with authors and publishers head to court in United States. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Directory of Open Access Journals Relaunched with New Features... Scholars Portal Certified as a Trustworthy Digital Repository... A Week In the Trenches at SXSW 2013... etc. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2012 |
In Brief and In the News New file naming tutorial targets a broad audience... iConference 2012 shines in Toronto... Harvard library to deposit additional volumes in Hathitrust... |
D-Lib
August 2007
Bonita Wilson |
Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012
Laurence Lannom |
Continuing Change Most early digital library projects focused on digitizing existing printed material and making it available over the Internet, generally on a collection by collection basis from servers run by the institutions that originally held the physical documents. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Dahlstrom & Doracic |
Digitization Education: Courses Taken and Lessons Learned The aims and nature of cultural heritage (CH) digitization education at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), accompanied with a brief overview of Nordic CH digitization education efforts. |
IDB America
February 2006
Charo Quesada |
Support for Caribbean Art New cultural programs provide fresh outlets for the creative talent of artists in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Laszlo Karman |
Report on the Workshop on Harvesting Metadata - Practices and Challenges Various issues, from the generous, European-level requirements to the individual partners' actual results and difficulties, were discussed. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2014
Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The Odysci Academic Search System... Cultural heritage data in digital library systems... The use of Raspberry PIs in libraries... |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2012 |
In Brief and In the News Grant Awards Announcement: Museums for America... VIVO to Join DuraSpace Organization Incubator Initiative... EUscreen releases Online Exhibitions... |
D-Lib
April 2004
Nancy Allen |
Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) The Colorado Digitization Project has broadened its scope, and serves a number of roles as a collaborative organization supporting digitization infrastructure for cultural heritage organizations of all kinds. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Laurence Lannom |
Editorial We feature an extensive consideration of contextual metadata for cultural objects, visual interfaces for cultural heritage collections, the infrastructure needed to build upon and leverage open access and more. |
Information Today
June 9, 2015 |
U.S. Copyright Office Report Addresses Orphan Works and Mass Digitization The U.S. Copyright Office documented the problems that occur when using orphan works and engaging in mass digitization projects. |
