Posted in Digital Libraries, Texas on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has funded 6 TexTreasures grants. This grant focuses on making special and unique collections of photographs, oral history interviews and historical documents more accessible through digitization. The winners are:
Houston Public Library: preserve and make the videorecordings of significant Houstonians available on the web
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Research, Software, Web Design/HTML on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research being done in Europe hopes to create KEEP – Keeping Emulation Environments Portable. The goal is to create a universal emulator that can open and play obsolete formats from the 1970s on. Although we normally think of digital documents, this emulator hopes to also allow people to work with multimedia files and games.
[BBC]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Legal Issues, Money, Research, Searching on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Association of Research Libraries has posted a very detailed summary of the settlement which focuses on the library issues. Remember that this has not yet been approved by the courts.
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Through Google Book Search, Google had been providing snippets of copyrighted materials for their users. As a result, they were sued both by the Authors [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Money, Searching, Texas on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Do you have materials in your library that are falling apart or are at-risk? The University of North Texas has received a grant from the Summerlee Foundation to help rescue them. The grant, Rescuing Texas History through the Digitization of At-Risk Photographs and Maps, will providing funding to digitize these materials and make them available through [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Research, Standards on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the past year, the ALA’s Preservation and Reformatting Section of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services has been working on a definition for “digital preservation.” Although it will continue to be developed and revised as we understand more about the subject, they have created three forms of the definition: short, medium, and [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Money, Texas on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The TexTreasures grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission supports the digitization of special and unique collections of photographs, newspapers, interviews and other historical documents, making them more accessible to all.
Of the 28 proposals, 8 were funded:
Houston Public Library — Preserve and make videos of significant Houstonians.
University of North Texas and Center for [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Digital Libraries, Standards on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new version of Unicode is now available. Version 5.1 contains:
the enabling of ideographic variation sequences which are needed for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.
changes to properties and behavioral specifications, which primarily deal with Polish, Portuguese, and Tamil and other languages.
1,624 newly encoded characters
[from Cafe con Leche]
Posted in Catalogs, Digital Libraries, Money, Searching on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BookLamp is a service that analyzes different aspects of books and then compares those traits with traits in books you say you like. Kind of confusing, but if you’ve used Pandora, it works on the same principle. It looks at traits like pacing, density, action, dialog, description, perspective, and genre.
Be aware that BookLamp is still [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Legal Issues, Research, Texas on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watson found some previously unknown documents related to the Kennedy assassination in his office. They were originally compiled by Henry Wade, the district attorney at the time of the assassination, but were not made public.
Watson has scanned these documents and the Dallas Morning News has made them public. In [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Podcasting, Security on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I heard a very interesting podcast interviewing Luis von Ahn, one of the inventors of the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart). These are the images of distorted letters you have to type. They let the service know that you are a real person and not a [...]
