Resource Review: Free Range Databases. Academic Newswire: Planning a National Digital Public Library, The Year in Architecture, Columns, and More - - Gmail. New Plan Seeks a 'Big Tent' for a National Digital Library. The Noun Project: Assembling A Free And Universal Visual Shorthand. While I doubt that the Noun Project, an effort to make a free library of icons representing every common concept out there, will have a profound impact on your everyday life, it’s a useful service they’re volunteering to undertake, and I think it deserves some attention.
The idea is simple: make a freely accessible library of clear, simple graphics that represent everything from emergency rooms and medications to different kinds of cocktails or entrees. One could argue that something like Google image search has made obsolete this kind of effort, but I think there’s a place for it. The world is shrinking day by day, and a comprehensive set of symbols like this may grow to be invaluable when providing localized text isn’t feasible, as in internationally-distributed packaging, or a single-domain service that can’t or won’t track their user’s location.
What will be the international symbol for URL shortener? Social network? Whether for signage or UI, a collection like this could be handy. 12/07/10, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Join HathiTrust - Almanac, Vol. 57, No. 14. The University of Pennsylvania Libraries have become the newest member of HathiTrust, an extraordinary partnership of more than two dozen major academic and research libraries. Launched in 2008, the HathiTrust is a collaborative digital library initiative that seeks to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form.
As a sustaining partner, Penn will be contributing to enhanced access, discovery and preservation of digital content for use by its scholars and the research community worldwide. Over the last two years, the partners have contributed more than seven million volumes to HathiTrust, digitized from their collections through a number of means including Google and Internet Archive digitization and in-house initiatives.
More than 1.6 million of the contributed volumes are in the public domain and freely available on the Web. HathiTrust serves a dual role. University of Michigan Library adds 700k bibliographic records to the public domain via CC0. Geocaching Free for All: Garmin® Launches OpenCaching.com. OLATHE, Kan. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced the creation of OpenCaching.com, a completely free online community for creating, sharing and finding geocaches around the world.
An exciting and engaging outdoor activity, geocaching combines exploration, education, entertainment and recreation. At OpenCaching.com, everyone can enjoy all of the caches and helpful information – the tips, descriptions, previous attempts, mass downloads, etc. – for free. “Garmin is extending its reputation for ease of use even further into geocaching, creating the most intuitive experience possible” “Garmin is extending its reputation for ease of use even further into geocaching, creating the most intuitive experience possible,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president of worldwide sales.
The Awesome Factor Open to everyone A legacy of innovation About Garmin International Inc. Redesign. Home Page in Oxford Art Online. Welcome to Oxford Art Online, the access point for subscriptions to Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and other Oxford art reference resources. Hirschvogel Workshop, after Sebald Beham: Roundel with Christ Healing the Blind Man, colourless and pot-metal glass with vitreous paint, 307×6 mm, 1517–27 (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 2009, Accession ID: 2009.281); image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art History Research Starts Here Oxford Art Online is the gateway to multiple trusted online art reference resources that serve students, scholars, curators, and collectors alike.
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