digitizationblog News on digitization in libraries and allied institutions

I'm not sure if anyone has explored the possiblity of using OpenURLs to dynamically link to digitized copies of journals, books, and other types of material created by libraries. Perhaps this may be one of the topics covered at the NISO Innovative Uses of OpenURL and Metasearch workshop at the end of Septmeber, but here's my take on it.

Cornell University Library is repeating its Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Problems workshop, originally held in May, this November. The workshop will also be repeated May 14-19, July 16-21, and October 1-6, 2006.

This article from TechWeb, a IT news site who alongside the Google headline today featured stories titled "Creative Claims Apple iPod Uses Its Patented Technology" and "Microsoft Fears Firefox, SEC Filing Shows", identifies several more publishing groups who have joined the Association of American Publishers in criticizing Google's mass digitization plans. It's obvious by now, but you know Google Print has hit the mainstream when it shares headline space with iPods and Microsoft.

This pandering and predictable article reveals to the world that we don't know how to preserve born-digital material. Duh. At least he acknowledges that "It is conceivable that a few librarians will keep around some antique Wangs and Commodore 64s in order to access digital archives." Thanks.

What is 'digitalization' anyway? Even Google thinks it's a misspelling.

As scraped from The Ten Thousand Year Blog, the presentations from the Digitizing Historic Newspapers: A Practical Approach conference held in Denver, Colorado, on July 18, 2005 are now available from OCLC’s Digitization & Preservation Online Resource Center.

Announcing Canadian Electronic Reserves: A forum for librarians implementing E-reserves in academic libraries across Canada. The inagural posting states

As a result of copyright law, Canada is far behind American libraries in e-reserves implementation. While there is a plethora of e-reserves research, little is Canadian based.

The University of Michigan has published this FAQ to clarify their agreement with Google to digitize material held in their Library. Topics include background for the agreement, technology issues, and an indication of what will be digitized ("Most of the University Library’s bound print collections will be digitized", not including Special Collections materials and extremely large format and unbound items).

Posted with permission and on behalf of Hazel Woodward (originally sent Aug. 18 to the ERIL email list):

Can any member of the list tell me whether there is a directory (or any other information source) that gives information about what digital backfiles of journals are now available - including information about whether any of these are available at no cost.

Also (and I suspect this is less likely to exist) has anyone pulled together information on how many linear metres each printed journal takes up on the shelf?

Hazel

Dr Hazel Woodward

Registration for Access 2005 in Edmonton, Alberta, Oct. 16-19, 2005 is now open. Access is always an excellent conference, and this year's includes a "METS Opening Day Canada" preconference, sessions on folksonomies, open source development, metadata, XML publishing, meta/federated searching, and web services.

The Delphi Group is presenting a series of events described as "intensive consultative education session[s] in which you will receive top-notch interaction with senior Delphi Information Architecture and Taxonomy faculty." Dates and locations are:

March 22-24, 2005 - Boston, MA
September 13-15, 2005 - Boston, MA
December 6-8, 2005 - Boca Raton, FL