Issue 82: Personal Digital Library, Video Preservation, Selling Prayers, and Library Ebook Legislation
The People Have Spoken On a whim, last Thursday I put out a poll with the announcement of last week’s issu...
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Emerging Tech: Bluetooth Beacons and the DPLA
This is the text of a talk that I gave at the NN/LM Greater Midwest Region tech talk on January 29, 2016. It has been lightly edited and annotated with link...
Trip Report of DPLA Audience & Participation Workstream
On December 6, 2012, the Audience and Participation workstream met at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. About ...
Digital Public Library of America Sends Out Call For a Beta Sprint
Earlier today, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Steering Committee put out a call for a "Beta Sprint" to bring to the surface "innovations that c...
XML Tower of Structural Metadata
Jerome McDonough of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented a paper this summer ...
Survey Responses Sought: JPEG2000 for Still Images
David Lowe, Preservation Librarian at the University of Connecticut, is coordinating a survey of JPEG2000 use for digital imagery. The survey asks questions...
NISO IR Presentation: “The Third Wave of Library Information Stewardship”
On Monday, I had the honor and pleasure of speaking at the NISO workshop "Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional Repository" on the topic of The Third Wa...
A View of Regional Digitization Centers
As a part of work for an OhioLINK strategic task force, I have been exploring the creation and operation of regional/collaborative/shared digitization center...
OAI-ORE Thoughts on Compound Documents
The Technical Committee and Liaison Group of the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange effort met last week in New York City to hammer out face-to-face some of the l...
Planning a digital preservation assessment using TRAC:CC and DRAMBORA
OhioLINK is engaged in building a "trusted digital repository" on behalf of its membership. As we build it, we want to have an understanding of what "truste...
Seeking Information about Regional Digitization Centers
I'm looking for information about the formation and management of regional digitization centers for one of the OhioLINK strategic task forces. For our purpo...
Creating Participatory Digital Libraries
"Participatory Digital Libraries" is the name of a talk Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, gave this morning at OCLC's Kilgour Auditorium. Known as "The P...
“Using Access Data for Paper Recommendations”
Here is a pair of papers that I'd like a chance to digest at some point. The first is "Recommending Related Papers Based on Digital Library Access Records" ...
Disseminators As the Core of an Object Repository
I’ve been working to get JBoss Seam tied into Fedora, and along the way thought it would be wise to stop and document a core concept of this integration: the...
Brewster Kahle on the Economics and Feasibility of Mass Book Digitization
Brewster Kahle, Director of the Internet Archive, was interviewed this week in a Chronicle of Higher Education podcast on the Economics and Feasibility of Ma...
What Librarians Could Learn From Journalists
On Tuesday, the Poynter Institute (a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists) released results of their EyeTrack07 study &mda...
Survey on Digital Preservation Systems is Seeking Respondents
There are just a few days left to respond to the "International Digital Preservation Systems Survey" being run by Karim Boughida and Sally Hubbard from the G...
A Report on Namespaces Used by OAI-PMH Repositories
I had a need for a survey of the metadata namespaces used by OAI-PMH repositories, so I wrote up a quick shell script and XSLT style sheet to parse through t...
“Draft Principles for Digitized Content” from the Digitization Policy Task Force of ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy
A note on the LITA-L mailing list from M. Claire Stewart (a member of the American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy Task Force on ...
Update to ‘Embedded Web Video in a Standards-Compliant, Accessible, and Successful Way’
With the release of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player version 11, the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol is officially no longer supported. (Except, of cou...
The Intersection of the Web Architecture with Scholarly Communication
Two previous posts on dltj.org have described the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project and the theory behind what has become known as the 'Web Archite...
Working With the Web Architecture
As you may have noticed, the web has evolved a set of common principles that are a mix of ratified standards and ad hoc practices. The notion of a Web Archi...
Introducing the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Initiative
In the past few months a new group has formed to tackle the problem of representing and exchanging complex digital objects in a web-based environment. I am ...
Presentation Summary: “Cross-Repository Semantic Interoperability: the MIT SIMILE Project”
Richard Rodgers presented this talk based on the work of he and MacKenzie Smith in the Digital Library Research Group at MIT. The original abstract of the p...
What a NASA/Google Mashup Might Mean for Libraries
Ron Murray (no relation) from the Library of Congress sent me this announcement about a joint NASA/Google partnership, which starts: NASA Ames Research Cente...
Sakai gets JSR-170 support; possible integration point with FEDORA?
Earlier this year, I was on a quest to hook a FEDORA content repository into the Sakai collaboration and learning environment. What looked at first to be a ...
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to build a consortial repository using FEDORA
On Friday, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries announced the creation of a consortium-wide digital repository project similar to that of the Ohio Dig...
DLF’s Upcoming Workshop on Developing a Services Framework for Digital Libraries
I know I said I would only be taking "a day's break" from posting about applying the Service Oriented Architecture pattern to library services but, well, rea...
GSoC: JPEG2000 JPIP Server and Viewer Applet
OhioLINK was excited and privileged to participate in the second annual Google Summer of Code -- a program to inspire young developers and provide students i...
XTF and FEDORA — Comments from the Community
Some questions and observations that have come in through mechanisms other than blog comments on the analysis of the XTF/FEDORA integration. I've reproduced...
Analysis of CDL’s XTF textIndexer to Replace the Local Files with FEDORA Objects
This is a continuation of the investigation about integrating the California Digital Library's XTF software into the FEDORA digital object repository that st...
CDL’s XTF as a Front End to Fedora
We're experimenting pretty heavily now with the California Digital Library's XTF framework as a front-end to a FEDORA object repository. Initial efforts loo...
Representing Collections In FEDORA
One of the DRC developers had a question recently that sparked a discussion about what to do with collections of objects. In order to answer the question of...
It’s All About User Services: A Summary and Commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting
What follows is a summary and commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting at ALA annual conference in New Orleans on 25-Jun-2006. What I've tried t...
Disruption in Publishing
Last week's Chronicle of Higher Education Review had an opinion piece by Kate Wittenberg, director of EPIC (Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia) wit...
“Cautiously Optimistic”
During the cookies and lemonade break during JCDL this afternoon I surprised one of the well-respected elders of the field with this question: are we really...