DRP 2010

This is an overview of the development of the digital research infrastructure in Arts and Humanities in Slovenia. The aim of the case study is to identify the development of the digital humanities infrastructure, to map all relevant recommendations, strategies, initiatives and key figures supporting and enabling the development of (future) policies. The main focus is on the development process itself; identifying individual initiatives, ideas, strategies, collaborations, accomplishments, references and the obstacles encountered. The paper includes a comparative component - considering developments in Slovenia within a broader EU and non‐EU context. Programme Seventh Framework Programme Specific Capacities

The Laboratory on Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University kindly organized the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries, which was held in the beautiful island of Corfu, Greece from September 27 to October 2, 2009. The general theme of the conference was "Digital Societies".

CNN.com, one of the top 25 websites in the US, just announced a radical redesign of its service at a press event in New York City.

SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access)/ROMEO is a database of publisher's copyright and self-archiving policies

Social networking, is really about people as sensors.Google Social Search is designed to let searches return traditional results along with updates and tweets that users' friends and other people they follow on various social networks have posted.

Instead of the 20,000 books the school currently has, the students of Cushing Academy will have 18 e-readers at their disposal. The learning centre - the replacement for what was once the school's library - will also have three large TVs, a coffee shop, and laptop-friendly booths.

Andrew Keen writes about whether to buy the Kindle now or wait for the appearance of the Apple touchtablet device rumored to be released early next year

The overall Internet population is more than one trillion. The top 5 countries with the most Internet users are: China, US, Japan, India and Brazil.

Copyright owner surely can get greater value from independent and not-so -popular products.

Is P2P dieing?

Ask any news Web site manager about their site's current design (and state of continual redesign) and the desire to "simplify" is likely high on the wish list. Also near the top: making better use of social networking tools.

This past weekend, public media enthusiasts, developers, and staffers from around the country met in Washington, D.C. for the first Public Media Camp.

As widely expected, Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook electronic reading device at a splashy news conference on Tuesday to generally positive views from the publishing community, and offered some details about its whispered-about lending capabilities.

Google Wave, Google's new real-time collaboration platform currently in private beta, is claimed to be more secure than traditional email because Google has focused on addressing privacy and security issues as the product was built from the ground up instead of waiting to deal with them later.

The convergence culture again reflect on dual-screen device. we are looking forward to a design as perfect as the paper book itself.

The challenge for media companies is not to figure out what to do with their content - content in and of itself doesn't matter.

"THE fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate distribution of charging and boosting stations. The early electrics of limited speed, range and utility produced popular impressions which still exist."

Stuart Moulthrop (2005) argues that we should define hypertext as the basis for a new version of general literacy

VisionChina buys out Digital Media, British Sky unveils online music service and India govt intros broadcasting policy.