Impact of digitization on scholarship and collect. Last week there was an announcement that the Folger Library, the Bodleian Library at University of Oxford, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland (all RLG Partners!) Have been awarded one of five transatlantic collaboration grants in the new JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants. The grant will help create The Shakespeare Quartos Archive, “a freely-accessible, high-resolution digital collection of the 75 pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays.” This will be a boon to scholarship, indeed. As materials move online, in both licensed and freely available forms, what will be the impact on scholarship? On teaching and learning practice? We’re fortunate that Philadelphia-area partners are terrific hosts.
While you’re at it, check out the program for our Annual Meeting. Related posts: Echonyc2008 wiki. The Civil Rights Digital Library :: Home Page. Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface. Abstract This article investigates the use of social software applications in digital library environments. It examines the use of blogging software as an interface to digital library content stored in a separate repository. The article begins with a definition of digital library approaches and features, examines ways in which open source and social software applications can serve to fill digital library roles, and presents a case study of the use of blogging software as a public interface to a project called Digital Forsyth, a grant-funded project involving three institutions in Forsyth County, NC.
The article concludes with a review of positive and negative outcomes from this approach and makes recommendations for further research. Introduction There are a number of possible approaches to using social software in digital library environments. Case Study Presentation Overview In short, the basic functional requirements of the software were to have the ability to: Solutions Metadata issues. Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving Part 2: Implications for S. 1. Introduction In Part 1 of this article, I laid out a space of challenges that we must overcome to ensure that we retain our digital assets over time and through changes in computing platforms and digital technologies.
When they are set out this way, none of these challenges are surprising. Yet taken together, they suggest a radical revision in the way we approach personal digital archiving, and the types of services, applications, and institutions we put in motion at its behest. For example, instead of looking at this problem as an impetus to centralize and unify, our data suggest that we conceive of personal archives as fundamentally distributed and unified primarily through a metadata store.1 Furthermore, the data call into question assumptions about access – that desktop search will be sufficient to meet our needs over the long haul – and about keeping – that we will want to in some way keep everything we've laid our hands on over the years.2 What should we keep?
2. Source. 3. 4. Mark Twain Project :: Home. NYPL Labs : The Process Behind the Product.