Resource: Geodia
GeoDia (jee-oh-DEE-uh, short for “geodiachronicity”) is intended to provide a simple, intuitive way for people to visualize the temporal, geographic, and material aspects of ancient Mediterranean civilizations.
Category: News
Resource: Announcing digitalcultureweek (DCW)
DCW will be a weekly space to find syntheses of field-specific material, to read about and discuss trends, hot-button topics, highlights, lowlights, and everything in between. A place, in other words, to make a narrative out of an info stream.
Job: Digital Projects Librarian at Amherst College Library
Coordinates digital reformatting operations that preserve and improve access to library and archival collections in all formats and that conform to digital library standards and best practices. Contributes to the development and implementation of digital projects.
Resource: Results from the NDSA Web Archiving Survey
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 […]
Resource: A digital experience of exploration and discovery: The Environment & Society Portal
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. […]
Resource: Our Annotated HTML Video Player: Free and Open Source
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 […]
Resource: Benefits of Open Access to Scholarly Research to the Public Sector
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 […]
Prize Deadline: Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History
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 […]
Report: On Peer Review of Digital Repositories
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 […]
CFParticipation: How You Can Help Launch a Digital Preservation Q&A Site
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