“This morning, February 6, 2007, ALA President Leslie Burger testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), concerning the recent closure of several libraries in the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA). Link to Burgers full testimony. “As one recently retired EPA librarian described it,” Burger said in… Continue Reading
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Reliability and Integrity of Digital Evidence Often in Question
An interesting article in today’s National Law Journal (free) discusses issues associated with the integrity of digital evidence, including email, photos, and metadata. Continue Reading
E-Gov Science Portal Introduces Enhanced Search and Relevancy Features
Press release: Science.gov 3.0 Launched – “…introduces ‘MetaRank’ which uses a sophisticated method for ranking science queries by searching ‘metadata,’ or bibliographic information such as title, author, date, abstract or other keyword identifiers…Science.gov 3.0 also offers enhanced Boolean search capability, improved fielded searching, intuitive site navigation and early viewing of results while the database and… Continue Reading
Documenting Copyright for Digital Materials
Descriptive metadata for copyright Status, by Karen Coyl: “The need to express the intellectual property rights of digital materials has focused on access and usage permissions which must be granted by the rights holder. A key set of permissions not acknowledged by these rights expressions is inherent in the legal copyright status of the item.… Continue Reading
GPO Releases Updated Report on Digital Preservation Project
Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata Specifications – REVISED: Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata Specifications. June 2, 2005 (PDF 140 KB “GPO is working with the library community on a national digitization plan, with the goal of digitizing a complete legacy collection of tangible U.S. Government… Continue Reading
Searchable Database of OCLC Research Publications
OCLC Research Publications: “This repository contains metadata for works by and about OCLC Research and, whenever possible, links to full text. The repository is under construction; it contains current publications back to 1997, all “born digital” publications, and at least 75% of OCLC Research’s corpus of work. A complete bibliography is available at http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2000-2009.htm. In… Continue Reading
OCLC Research Publications Repository Provides Searchable Interface
“This repository contains metadata for works by and about OCLC Research and, whenever possible, links to full text. The repository is under construction; it contains current publications back to 2001, all “born digital” publications, and at least 40% of OCLC Research’s corpus of work. A complete bibliography is available at http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2000-2009.htm. In addition to online… Continue Reading
Web Searching and Information Retrieval
Web search: how the Web has changed information retrieval. “This paper suggests that the significance of the topical metadata controversy depends on the technological appropriateness of adding them to Web pages. This paper surveys Web technology with an eye on assessing the appropriateness of Web pages as hosts for topical metadata. The survey reveals Web… Continue Reading
A Study on the Evolution of the Web
Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web, 1998 – 2002 “examines three key trends in the development of the public Web — size and growth, internationalization, and metadata usage — based on data from the OCLC Office of Research Web Characterization Project , an initiative that explores fundamental questions about the Web and its… Continue Reading
"Prototype for a Universal Virtual Computer"
According to this New York Times article, Dr. Raymond Lorie, Research Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center, has been testing a program to preserve digital documents so that they can be read decades into the future, despite the obvious obstacles of the evolution of hardware and software. A paper he wrote on the topic,… Continue Reading
