15 July 2010
Official Google Research Blog: Our commitment to the digital humanities
Official Google Research Blog: Our commitment to the digital humanities: "Our commitment to the digital humanities
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 7/14/2010 03:45:00 AM
Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)
It can’t have been very long after people started writing that they started to organize and comment on what was written. Look at the 10th century Venetus A manuscript, which contains scholia written fifteen centuries earlier about texts written five centuries before that. Almost since computers were invented, people have envisioned using them to expose the interconnections of the world’s knowledge. That vision is finally becoming real with the flowering of the web, but in a notably limited way: very little of the world’s culture predating the web is accessible online. Much of that information is available only in printed books."
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 7/14/2010 03:45:00 AM
Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents
(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog)
It can’t have been very long after people started writing that they started to organize and comment on what was written. Look at the 10th century Venetus A manuscript, which contains scholia written fifteen centuries earlier about texts written five centuries before that. Almost since computers were invented, people have envisioned using them to expose the interconnections of the world’s knowledge. That vision is finally becoming real with the flowering of the web, but in a notably limited way: very little of the world’s culture predating the web is accessible online. Much of that information is available only in printed books."
Go To Hellman: What IS an eBook, Anyway?
Go To Hellman: What IS an eBook, Anyway?: "What IS an eBook, Anyway?
One of my secret pleasures at American Library Association meetings is going to Standards sessions. Now before you think I have a completely hopeless case of nerdiness, let me explain myself.
There's never just one Standards session at ALA, there are at least two and often three or more. I'm not sure why, but I think it's because librarians feel that standards are Important, and because there are so many Standards in the library world that people forget which ones were the subject of a Standards session at the last meeting. Its not that librarians are interested in Standards, it's just that they have lots of data problems that might magically go away, if only there were a Standard. Or not."
One of my secret pleasures at American Library Association meetings is going to Standards sessions. Now before you think I have a completely hopeless case of nerdiness, let me explain myself.
There's never just one Standards session at ALA, there are at least two and often three or more. I'm not sure why, but I think it's because librarians feel that standards are Important, and because there are so many Standards in the library world that people forget which ones were the subject of a Standards session at the last meeting. Its not that librarians are interested in Standards, it's just that they have lots of data problems that might magically go away, if only there were a Standard. Or not."
International � Blog Archive � Europeana-UK 2010 Builds on Last Year’s Success
International � Blog Archive � Europeana-UK 2010 Builds on Last Year’s Success: "Europeana-UK 2010 Builds on Last Year’s Success
On Monday last week Collections Trust hosted the second Europeana-UK Conference at the�Kingsway Hall Hotel�in London.
Over�75 attended the conference this year, an increase of 25% on 2009. Organisations included the full range from nationals to small local museums, and all parts of the UK were represented.
As with last year the conference was part the work of the ATHENA Project, one of the Europeana Group projects providing content to Europeana. ATHENA is funded under the eContentplus programme, a multiannual European Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable."
On Monday last week Collections Trust hosted the second Europeana-UK Conference at the�Kingsway Hall Hotel�in London.
Over�75 attended the conference this year, an increase of 25% on 2009. Organisations included the full range from nationals to small local museums, and all parts of the UK were represented.
As with last year the conference was part the work of the ATHENA Project, one of the Europeana Group projects providing content to Europeana. ATHENA is funded under the eContentplus programme, a multiannual European Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable."
eFoundations: Going LOCAH: a Linked Data project for JISC
eFoundations: Going LOCAH: a Linked Data project for JISC: "Going LOCAH: a Linked Data project for JISC
Posted by PeteJ at 12:24 08 July 2010 in Linked Data , Metadata , Research , Semantic Web | Permalink
Recently I worked with Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN and Jane Stevenson and Joy Palmer of MIMAS, University of Manchester on a bid for a project under the JISC O2/10 call, Deposit of research outputs and Exposing digital content for education and research, and I'm very pleased to be able to say that the proposal has been accepted and the project has been funded."
Posted by PeteJ at 12:24 08 July 2010 in Linked Data , Metadata , Research , Semantic Web | Permalink
Recently I worked with Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN and Jane Stevenson and Joy Palmer of MIMAS, University of Manchester on a bid for a project under the JISC O2/10 call, Deposit of research outputs and Exposing digital content for education and research, and I'm very pleased to be able to say that the proposal has been accepted and the project has been funded."
DigitalKoans � Blog Archive � Digital Preservation: PARSE.Insight Presentations and Report
DigitalKoans � Blog Archive � Digital Preservation: PARSE.Insight Presentations and Report: "Digital Preservation: PARSE.Insight Presentations and Report
PARSE.Insight (Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe) has released several presentations and reports.
Audit and Certification: Towards an Ecology of Repositories
Insight into Digital Preservation of Research Output in Europe
Science Data Infrastructure Roadmap
What We Learnt from PARSE.Insight"
PARSE.Insight (Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe) has released several presentations and reports.
Audit and Certification: Towards an Ecology of Repositories
Insight into Digital Preservation of Research Output in Europe
Science Data Infrastructure Roadmap
What We Learnt from PARSE.Insight"
I2 Midterm Report (June 2010) - National Information Standards Organization
I2 Midterm Report (June 2010) - National Information Standards Organization: "NISO Request for Comments on Institutional Identifier Midterm Work to Date
Feedback Requested by August 2, 2010
Download the Midterm Release for Comment
Provide Feedback on the Release Here"
Feedback Requested by August 2, 2010
Download the Midterm Release for Comment
Provide Feedback on the Release Here"
Confessions of a Graph Addict
Confessions of a Graph Addict: "Libraries and Linked Data
Confessions of a Graph Addict
Ed Summers
June 24, 2010"
Confessions of a Graph Addict
Ed Summers
June 24, 2010"
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