Michael Naimark Home Page. Planning for Digitization: Overview of Major Issues. By Donald J.
Waters Program Officer, Scholarly Communications The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation February 4, 2005 Introduction Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. The speed with which this workshop became fully subscribed after its announcement is a measure of the importance to you of the topics that will occupy us over the next two days — and perhaps of the difficult challenges that those topics represent.
Despite the rapid pace of change, there is one point of constancy and common ground that I should emphasize at the outset of this workshop. Inquiring minds often want to know the criteria or other features of the Mellon Foundation's digitization initiatives. But do also remember that these are complicated issues that require creativity and imagination. Talking in code is also endemic in this field and is another major obstacle to clarity and understanding.
"What's going on here? " The student wasn't fully convinced, but he tried. There is a curious sequel to this story. Meetings&Forums. February 4–6, 2005 Charleston, South Carolina As libraries become increasingly involved in creating and managing collections of digital content, they are more and more concerned with how to provide for efficient storage and retrieval of that content.
Library and technology leaders are being asked to make technical and policy choices to ensure that their scholarly information assets will remain accessible over time. Because most library directors are not well prepared to make these decisions, they will need to work with their technology cohorts to ensure that service needs are met. In February, CLIR offered a three-day workshop for library and information technology administrators who need in-depth information about the planning, purchase, implementation, and management of digital assets.
The workshop, "Managing Digital Assets," focused on the latest trends in digital-content management and on how small and midsize academic libraries can incorporate new approaches into their operations. Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report. In today’s Report:Digital Gallery launches A great cultural institution puts hundreds of thousands of rare images online, free.
Good job! A Manhattan-based web shop seeks client-side developers with strong, standards-driven HTML and CSS skills. Digital Gallery launches Fashion illustrations and illuminated manuscripts. Four years in the making, the project shows how a great cultural institution can use the internet to distribute its richest and rarest content to all comers. Let the browser beware. Visitors can use the images any way they choose: You can collect ’em, enlarge ’em, download ’em, print ’em and hang ’em on your wall at home. Barbara Taranto of the Digital Library Program headed the effort. Good job! The Daily Report’s longtime pal Tim Murtaugh — he of Cloud King and Pirated Sites fame — informs us that his company is looking to hire standards-aware front end web experts: A List Apart 196 In Issue 196 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: City Tech - News & Events - Robin Bargar Appointed Dean of Technology & Design at City Tech.
Robin Bargar Appointed Dean of Technology & Design at City Tech Robin Bargar, a researcher, educator and creative force in media and information technology, has been named dean of City Tech's School of Technology & Design.
Bargar has expertise in the design and development of software tools for creating sounds and images in virtual reality and computer animation, in addition to extensive management experience in academia and industry. He comes to City Tech from Hexagram, a Montréal-based non-profit institute for research and production in arts and media technologies, where he served as CEO since 2002. The institute undertakes research projects in innovative media applications and strives to link the creative and industrial worlds. Before that, from 1993-2000, he was affiliated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as co-founder of the Audio Development Group. Victoria Vesna - Projects. Robin Bargar. Victoria Vesna. Howard's Homepage.