November 2, 2009 – 12:21 pm
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authors: Peter B. Hirtle Cornell University Library; Emily Hudson University of Melbourne – Law School; Andrew T. Kenyon
University of Melbourne Law School
Digital communications technologies have led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfil their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Institutions are developing publicly-accessible websites in which users can visit [...]
October 30, 2009 – 1:34 pm
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Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen as a priority they are not directly consulted about which collections they would like to have made available digitally or why. This can be seen in a wide range of policy documents throughout the cultural heritage sector, where users are [...]
September 30, 2009 – 2:55 pm
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A new report from Ithaka S+R examines when libraries can rely on digitized journals and responsibly save shelf space by withdrawing print collections
New York, NY September 29 – As large-scale digitization efforts ensue, how do libraries determine when to retain print collections? What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization [...]
September 22, 2009 – 3:16 pm
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In 2005, the UC Libraries entered into a ground-breaking partnership with the Internet Archive to digitize public domain book collections from the University of California Libraries. With the generous support of external partners such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, our collaboration grew to encompass two major on-site scanning centers at NRLF [...]
September 17, 2009 – 8:13 am
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Search giant Google Inc. announced today that it has purchased reCaptcha, a company that began as a research project at Carnegie Mellon University. ReCaptcha develops online word puzzles to serve both as Web-site security and to help digitize printed text, and Google says it will use it in projects like Google Books and Google News [...]
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Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most important books in the world. Handwritten well over 1600 years ago, the manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the [...]
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The Bodleian Library has unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The original printed materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community
nbsp;http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/toyota/openpa…
This digitised imaging system was made possible by the sponsorship of Toyota City which began in 1993 with the appointment at the Bodleian Library of a Toyota Research Assistant who compiled the database for the project. It focuses on the 15 boxes of Motor Car ephemera in the John Johnson Collection, supplemented by 1,000 images [...]
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The Independent Radio News/London Broadcasting Company radio archive consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. It is the most important commercial radio archive in the UK and provides a unique audio history of the period.
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This project digitised the Carl Giles Archive, the single most important archive of British newspaper cartoons, and a key resource for British political and social history that has never before been open to the public. The collection will become a major part of the existing University of Kent Cartoon Centre, thereby creating the largest archive [...]
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