Archive - Jul 15, 2005 | digitizationblog

Archive - Jul 15, 2005

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DSpace Checksum Checker

Fri, 2005/07/15 - 2:54pm — mark

As announced on the DSpace-tech email list today, Grace Carpenter (MIT), Jim Downing (University of Cambridge), and Nathan Sarr (University of Rochester) have released the DSpace Checksum Checker, which monitors changes in digital objects in DSpace by comparing initial and recent checksums and reporting the results via email. Excellent -- I was wondering on this very blog a few days ago if anyone was doing any work on checksums.

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New Open Access blog

Fri, 2005/07/15 - 1:39pm — mark

Steven Harnad has announced the launch of Open Access Archivangelism: Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Research Access.

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Neal-Schuman books relevant to digitization

Fri, 2005/07/15 - 1:38pm — mark

As posted on Digitization 101, the lastest Neal-Schuman catalogue lists several books of possible interest: Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual, Building Digital Archives: Descriptions & Displays: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Archivists and Librarians, Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook, and XML in Libraries.