April 28 and 29 was Transparency Camp 12 (TCamp), an unconference to gather journalists, technologists, activists, and others to work on ways to promote and work with openness in government. The 30th was a special hack day on the Voter Information Project. Turns out, I was over my head in that context and couldn’t really […]
Web Archiving Arrives: Results from the NDSA Web Archiving Survey « The Signal: Digital Preservation. The NDSA Content Working Group, one of the five working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance focuses on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and matching orphan content with […]
A digital experience of exploration and discovery: The Environment & Society Portal | Ant, Spider, Bee. As the Internet delivers ever-more specific search results and personalized content, we increasingly miss out on surprising connections. Our project, the Environment & Society Portal, offers something different: an exploratory experience that lets users visualize spatial, temporal, and thematic relationships. […]
Our Annotated HTML Video Player: Free and Open Source | Rural West Initiative. Recently, though, the Mozilla Foundation’s “Web Made Movies” project has been inspiring developers to think about ways, as they put it, “to make video and the Web play nicer together.” The result has been a new javascript codebase called “Popcorn,” that provides […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Benefits of Open Access to Scholarly Research to the Public Sector. JISC has released Benefits of Open Access to Scholarly Research to the Public Sector. Here’s an excerpt: The total cost to the public sector of accessing journal papers is around £135 million per annum. The savings that accrue from the […]
Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History. The Prize will be conferred on a project that has been launched in the last two years and is publicly available. The prize recipient(s) will be expected to apply awarded funds toward the advancement of the project goals. Projects may be renominated, as long as a description is […]
Every once in a while, a new project comes around bearing a message loud and clear: this is a sign of things to come. ORBIS, the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, is one such project. ORBIS was created by Walter Scheidel, Elijah Meeks, and a host of others. At the very beginning, I […]
This document reports on the work which has been undertaken in support of the European Framework for Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories which was initiated by the European Commission’s unit which funds APARSEN. . . . The main part of this report provides details of the test audits which were carried out, the problems […]
A few of my colleagues at a range of different national and international organizations working on digital preservation have put together a proposal for a new Stack Exchange question and answer site focused on Digital Preservation
University of Colorado are seeking to hire a research fellow with a degree in Library and/or Information Science, or an arts, humanities or social science discipline in which the candidate has acquired significant research and practical expertise in the area of digital curation. The ideal candidate should provide evidence of past practical experience in digital […]
