Recordings of Grateful Dead concerts, digitized home movies, more than 1 million electronic books, and conserved copies of pages that were on the Web 12 years ago are just a few of the artifacts you'll find when you explore the collections at the Internet Archive (IA). Without cultural artifacts, civilization has no memory and no mechanism to learn from its successes and failures, according to the site. To access the collection of publicly accessible Web pages that have been archived since 1996 -- more than 150 billion pages -- you use the site's Wayback Machine. The IA also offers more than 250,000 audio recordings, including old radio programs, book and poetry readings, alternative news programs, concerts, and original music uploaded by archive users.
... striving to maintain an online library "with the purpose of offering permanent access for... Library, Project Gutenberg, Biodiversity Heritage Library, and Children's Library. The most...
Many people are talking these days about "digitizing books." But what does that really mean? This paper describes different kinds of digitizing, the pros and cons of each, and suggests a layered structure for understanding "digitization.
...AN EXAMPLE: THE BIODIVERSITY HERITAGE LIBRARY (BHL). Having discussed the vario...
The Library of Congress and DuraSpace announced a yearlong pil... The New York Public Library and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Source: Library of Congress (www...
... plan: mysteries of the universe, biodiversity, valuing world cultures and understanding the Amer... us to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resour... through the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which we (inaudible) share with others. Mr. Chair...
... by Charles Darwin in 700 books of his own library with digital images of the texts to which they rel... History Museum in London, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (a collective of 10 major natural...
... the New York Public Library and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] . Cloud...
This turned out to be a year to remember for the American Library Association (ALA). According to recent stats, ALA exceeded attendance expectations and actually posted record attendance at its annual conference in Chicago in early July. Despite trying economic conditions and financial pressures on library budgets, nothing could stop ALA members from showing up for the event. Some even paid their own way, according to reports. This year's ALA featured 22,762 registrants, along with 6,179 exhibitors. That translates to a total attendance of 28,941. But the exhibitors on the floor were feeling the economic pinch with a reported 12% less booth space than in years past. Nonetheless, ALA's revenue goal of $2.1 million was exceeded.
... The New York Public Library and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. * The U.S. Government Printing O...
The NFAIS 2008 Annual Conference and 50th Anniversary Gala started off with a bang. The city of Philadelphia declared Feb 24, 2008 as "NFAIS Day" to recognize the valuable education and information services that the National Federation of Advanced Information Services and its member organizations provide. Information discovery, once known as "searching," continues to be a hot topic in the New Information Order, and panelists shared their latest work. The National Geographic Society library staff is acting as a change agent in the creation of a "communications hub" on its intranet. Microsoft Surface, which was unveiled last year, is an innovative tool that lets a user process digital photos by dragging virtual prints into piles or create play lists of songs by dragging music icons acros...
...* When the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Project (www.bio diversityl...
WASHINGTON - In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone. The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers. Its first pages of information will be shown today in Washington where the massive effort is being announced by some of the world's leading scientific institutions and universities. The project will take about 10 years to complete.
... Edwards currently helps run a global biodiversity information system. If the new encyclopedia progre... in Massachusetts, the Biodiversity Heritage Library Consortium, the Missouri Botanical Garden ...
Change is happening all around, but attendees at the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers Fall 2009 Meeting only needed to look out the window to see the change in front of them. This year's conference, which was appropriately titled Change!?, was held September 13-September 15 in Arlington, VA. It examined specific examples of change, including cloud computing, innovation, integration of content into workflow, egovernment, and social media. For Simon Wardley, director of software services at Canonical Ltd, technology is changing because as development proceeds, yesterday's hot technologies become today's common ones, losing their strategic value. This then leads to commoditization and more innovation. Cloud computing is the provision of "dynamically scalable and often v...
... partners are The New York Public Library, which has used the service to store a backup copy... of 700,000 images, and the BioDiversity Heritage Library, which has backed up its entire c...
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