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Making a book, old school

KlausGraf — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:02:00 +0000

Mittellatein-Seminar: Heidelberger Rektorat zensiert

KlausGraf — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:33:00 +0000

Zu: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5105697/

Die Petition für den Erhalt des Seminars musste von der Instituts-Seite entfernt werden:

http://unimut.fsk.uni-heidelberg.de/aktuell

Die Petition kann auf den Seiten der Fachschaft aber weiter unterzeichnet werden:

http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bz7/petition.html

Onderzoek kranten website

Eric Hennekam — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:33:00 +0000

Het vergelijkend onderzoek van de Vrije Universiteit van Brussel bij 82 krantensites uit 8 West-Europese landen wijst uit dat kranten hun internetstrategie wijzigen en hun archief deels of helemaal gratis toegankelijk voor Internet bezoekers Het onderzoek in het kader van het zogenaamde FLEET onderzoek kunt u hier (pdf, 5 pagina's) raadplegen.

Eye of the Beholder

beineckepoetry — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:48:09 +0000

Eyeglasses worn by Walt Whitman

A breif article about Whitman’s glasses by Richard Deming was recently published in The Sienese Shredder.

Adding value to data: eScience conference session

Chris Rusbridge — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:42:00 +0000

If you nearly had a paper ready for the International Digital Curation Conference in December (the closing date was the end of July), you may still have time to get one in to the special session "Adding value to data – Digital Repositories in the e-Science world" at the 4th IEEE International Conference on eScience, whose deadline has just been extended to 31 August. From the call for papers on the DReSNet blog:

"There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science technologies and a cluster of related systems addressing the management of digital assets in digital libraries and repositories. The digital material generated from and used by academic and other research is to an increasing extent being held in formal data management systems; these systems are variously categorized as digital repositories, libraries or archives, although the distinction between them relates more to the sort of data that they contain and the use to which the data is put, rather than to any major difference in functionality. In many cases, these systems are used currently to hold relatively simple objects, for example an institution’s pre-prints and publications, or e-theses. However, some institutions are beginning to use them to manage research data in a variety of disciplines, including physical sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities, as well as the output from various digitisation programmes."

This does look very interesting. They suggest several research challenges, which I think tie in pretty much with our own agenda, although the last is novel to me in the way it's framed:

Digital preservation and curation in research infrastructures
Interoperability
Security
Provenance
Metadata Extraction
Workflow Integration
Architecture of Participation

There's a good programme committee, so the session could be extremely useful. Go to their entry for the submission details...

Sebastian Faulks Hosts Launch of ‘Books Change Lives’ Campaign

News & Editorial — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:00:35 +0000

Sebastian Faulks CBE steps in to host the launch of Book Aid International’s new fundraising campaign; the aim is to raise £5 million over the next three years, sending 750,000 books a year to sub-Sahara Africa by 2010. The launch takes place on International Literacy Day, 8th September at the London Review Bookshop with special [...]

Society of Archivists’ conference

SOAS — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:19:00 +0000

University of York
26th – 29th August 2008

This year members of the SOAS executive group are manning a stall at the Society of Archivist’s conference. If you are attending the conference please come along and visit the stall. Information about archive services in the region will be available along with details about SOAS’s activities. Members of the executive group will be on hand to answer questions and/or to discuss ideas for future SOAS developments. More information on the conference is available online.

SOAS Meetings

SOAS — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:12:00 +0000

The last Society of Archivists Scotland regional meeting was held on Tuesday 13th May 2008 at North Lanarkshire Archives in Motherwell. Attendees enjoyed a tour of Motherwell's Heritage Centre, including a visit up the centre's tower to admire views of Lanarkshire. Before the business meeting a lively and interesting discussion was held on Scottish archives and the role the Society of Archivists in Scotland. Issues addressed during this discussion have since been raised by the SOAS chair at a meeting with the Keeper of the Records of Scotland. This has resulted in SOAS working together with the SCA and the NAS to organize a discussion forum on specific aspects of legislation that the NAS has been tasked with reviewing, in light of recommendations from the Shaw Report.

Our next meeting will be held on 30th September 2008 at Old College, Playfair Library, University of Edinburgh. It will be joint meeting with the Records Management Society Scotland Group and will include training relating to the common issues of standards and digital preservation, emphasising how archivists and records managers can work together on these issues. It's hoped the day will provide an opportunity for members of both groups to share their experiences and make new contacts. For more details see the SOAS web pages.

Legendary Maine East Teacher Paul Carlson Dies

martyweil — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:23:00 +0000

Venerable Maine East High School teacher, Paul Carlson, touched a lot of lives--many of which wouldn't have turned out the same without him, mine included. He passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer. A year or so ago,...

Geek Archivist and Other T-Shirts

Jeanne — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:35:47 +0000

I have a new favorite procrastination technique - putting together graphics and opening CafePress shops! These are ideas I have had for ages (and more are in the works). I suspect they will be great tools for starting interesting conversations with both colleagues, friends and the general public. Please take a look the ones below and see what you think. I should be wearing my GEEK ARCHIVIST t-shirt at SAA if you want to see one in person. I have also created an Archivist Fun T-shirts page for you to use to find all the current designs as I add them.

Forgive the poor graphic quality on the thumbnails above - the resizing image magic of WordPress is not all it could be. The images used in the the actual products were created using the specifications set out by the CafePress folks and therefore should be totally clear on the t-shirts, bags, mouse pads and other fun stuff I found to slap them on. Let me know if there is a product you wish I was offering that I haven’t included yet (mugs? aprons? their list of offerings is amazing).

Hope they make you smile as much as they are making me smile.