Category: Resources

O’Reilly Media has released Planning for Big Data: A CIO’s Handbook to the Changing Data Landscape as a free Kindle e-book. See the publisher’s description for details.

Einstein Archives | Home. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the California Institute of Technology unveiled a new online repository of 2,000 high-resolution scans from their collected manuscripts of Albert Einstein.

Scholars’ Lab. GIS Day 2011 Lightning Rounds On November 16, 2011, the SLab welcomed a diverse group of speakers presenting lightning round talks as part of our GIS Day celebrations. Eighteen of those speakers agreed to have their talks appear on our podcast, which we’re pleased to present.

Guidelines for a long time preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata Authors: Sofie Laier Henriksen, Wiel Seuskens & Gaby Wijers (NIMk)External reviewer: Robert Gillesse (DEN)These Guidelines for a long-term preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata explains how to preserve digital materials such as text, images and video. It gives a theoretical introduction to […]

The following ASECS 2012 panels deal with relevant EMOB topics such as digital humanities, print culture, bibliography, reading, libraries, and more. ASECS 2012 Panels on Digital Humanities and Book History/Print Culture Topics « Early Modern Online Bibliography.

The Who Speaks for the Negro?  website is a digital archive of materials related to the book of the same name published by Robert Penn Warren in 1965.  The original materials are held at the University of Kentucky and Yale University Libraries.  We are indebted to both of these institutions for their willingness to share their […]

Register & Read Beta is a new, experimental program to offer free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account. Register & Read follows the release of the Early Journal Content as the next step in our efforts to find sustainable ways to extend access to JSTOR, specifically to those not affiliated […]

This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses thewhy, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.  

The Data Curation Curriculum Search is a database of programs and courses covering data curation and closely related fields. The tool and all research has been conducted by the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. This site is part of the broader impacts goals […]

New resource: National History Day and Archives | ArchivesNext. I’m also happy to share that there is a new resource available, a National History Day and Archives Toolkit, created by SAA’s Reference, Access and Outreach Section’s National History Day Committee. The toolkit resides on a wiki, and is intended to provide support for both archivists […]