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What would you do with a bamboo bicycle? Ride it or, through its production, help build the economy in Kisumu, Kenya?
Last week, Sarah touted the accomplishments of undergraduate scholarship when she highlighted the newly added History department senior theses. This week, Sarah has honed in on a Working Paper Series on Investment from the Millennium [...]
eclectic librarian » NASIG 2010: Linked Data and Libraries
Digital preservation repositories are discussing ways to open up their data so that users can remix and mashup data to meet their needs. This requires new ways of archving, cataloging, and supplying the content. …
Read MoreDigitally Preserving Africa's Cultural Landscapes « The Dirt
Ruther said “I don’t have any means of conserving them technically but I thought at least a digital preservation would be useful.” The project is indeed very useful and has moved forward despite a range of obstacles. …
Read MoreNasig 2010: linked data and libraries
Presenter: Eric Miller, Zepheira, LCC
Nowadays, we understand what the web is and the impact it has had on information sharing, but before it was developed, it was in a “vague but exciting” stage and few understood it. When we got started w…
Lavoie Economics of Sustaining Digital Information Webinar Recor …
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 4 June 2010—In this webinar, OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie discusses the economic challenges of long-term digital preservation based on the work of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation …
Read MoreEconomics of Sustaining Digital Information Webinar Recording Available Online and in iTunes
In this webinar, OCLC Research Scientist Brian Lavoie discusses the economic challenges of long-term digital preservation based on the work of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, which he co-chaired.
Read MoreChoix des mots: une question de langue (aussi)
Sur Blogo-Numericus, Marin Dacos propose des alternatives francophones à un certain nombre de termes anglophones que nous utilisons (plus ou moins) souvent, oralement et par écrit, lorsque nous évoquons le monde numérique: « [...] J’avais commencé un travail de réflexion terminologique sur les mots tournant autour des blogs (Do you speak blog?). Je crois que nous [...]
ArchivesNext » Two great conferences coming up (and both are free)
As the digital preservation is changing constantly and those working in the field are always coming up with new ideas, a fifth track is available for other topics. If you have a great idea, we want to hear about it. PROPOSALS …
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