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Call for papers on international and collaborative digitization projects

OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives will be publishing a special issue on digitization projects that are international and collaborative. The editor is looking for innovative digitization projects that feature multiple formats (books, images, maps, 3D visualization, music, art, etc.), and that have multiple partners and collaborators from different countries and nationalities. Projects that are based on international grants are especially encouraged. Articles can be of any length, and figures and screen shots are encouraged.

Kete Version 1.0 available

Horowhenua Library Trust and Katipo Communications in New Zealand are pleased to annouce the release of Kete Version 1.0, a collection-based content management system released under the GPL and developed in Ruby on Rails. Full documentation, contacts and links to the code repository can be found at the project site http://kete.net.nz.

Microsoft cancels Live Book Search and pulls out of Open Content Alliance

On Friday Microsoft announced that is was canceling Live Book Search and pulling out of the Open Content Alliance. Ars technica and others provide more detail and analysis.

eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) 2.1 now available

The California Digital Library has released verion 2.1 of their eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. Highlights of this release include:

  • Extensive interface improvements, including new search forms, built-in faceted browsing, and a new look and feel.
  • Increased support for document and information exchange formats.
  • XHTML and OAI-PMH output
  • NLM article format indexing and output
  • Microsoft Word indexing

Keeping Research Data Safe: a cost model and guidance for UK Universities

Results of this JISC-funded study, which includes detailed case studies covering the Universities of Cambridge, King’s College London, Southampton, and the Archaeology Data Service (University of York), are now available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/keepingresearchdatasafe..... Comments and feedback are welcome at http://blog.beagrie.com/archives/2008/05/14/just-published-research-data....