VIAF (Virtual International Autority File) is an OCLC service — built in cooperation with national libraries and other partners — that virtually combines multiple LAM (Library Archives Museum) name authority files into a single name authority service.
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.
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.
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 […]
CC HowTo #1: How to Attribute a Creative Commons licensed work | Molly Kleinman. If part of the goal of Creative Commons is to reduce transaction costs, then there must be some way to use those works without having to contact the creator to ask about proper attribution. In practice, here’s how you can handle […]
New resources on sustainability for digital content : Digitisation and Content Programme. A new video discusses the work on sustainability of digital content that the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and ITHAKA S+R have been doing over the last few years and new resources now available. Highlights include five things sustainable projects do and a tool […]
Prism is an experiment in visualizing many readings of a common set of texts, using concepts shared by its users–“the crowd.” While the Praxis Program itself makes an intervention in graduate training, Prism is an intervention in the concept of crowd-sourcing, which until now has mostly made fact-checkers and copy editors of the crowd. One of […]
