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Thursday Threads: Beyond MARC, Library-controlled DRM, Spam Study
Threads this week without commentary. (It has been a long week that included only one flight of four that actually happened without a delay, cancellation, or redirection.) Big announcements are one from the Library of Congress to re-envision the way bibliographic information travels, one from Douglas County (Colorado) Library's experiment …
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JPEG2000 Summit at Library of Congress, May 12-13, 2011
It has been years since I've done meaningful work with JPEG2000, but I still try to keep tabs on what is happening in that community. In that vein, Rob Buckley -- formerly of Xerox Research and now on his own with a consulting business -- pointed me to an announcement about a …
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Presentation Announcement: Re-Imagining the Bibliographic Universe -- FRBR, Physics and the World Wide Web
Add this event to your desktop calendar program.Next Monday (November 30, 2009) a colleague at the Library of Congress will be giving a presentation on modeling bibliographic information based on a "Paper Tool" technique adopted from physics. The title of the talk is "Re-Imagining the Bibliographic Universe: FRBR, Physics …Posted on· 3 minutes reading time -
LC's Adoption of Silverlight -- Good Deal for Microsoft, Bad Deal for the Rest of Us
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was giving $3 million in "funding, software, technological expertise, training and support services" to the Library of Congress to build on-site and online exhibits of LC historical collections. Others have commented on this. From a Jester's point of view, I've got problems with …
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Getting On With 'The Future of Descriptive Enrichment
Roy Tennant is advocating the phrase "Descriptive Enrichment" over "Bibliographic Control" in response to draft report from the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and I'm stepping up to say -- I'm right there with you, Roy! ((And I would have said so in a comment …
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Xerox and Library of Congress Collaborate on JPEG2000 for Image Preservation
Xerox and the Library of Congress announced a joint effort last week to study the use of JPEG 2000. This is welcome news! The project is "designed to help develop guidelines and best practices for digital content," a result that will be most welcome for those of us that want …
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NDIIP Update: Requests for Funding and Other Activities
Activity still continues on the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP). There were two stories in Washington DC newspapers in recent weeks. The more interesting of the two came from the May 16th Washington Post in a column by Jim Barksdale and Francine Berman called Saving our Digital …
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