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Harvard took a DASH toward opening access to its scholarship this week (Aug. 31). DASH stands for Digital Access to Scholarship. It's an open-access repository of scholarly works administered by the University Library. So far, more than 350 members of the

More than a dozen leading experts give their opinions on where the Internet is headed and where it will be in the next decade in terms of technology, policy, and applications. They cover topics ranging from the Internet of Things to climate change to the digital storage of the future. A summary of the articles is available in the Web extras section. (requires subs, alas)

"The 116-page report represents a 2-year effort with the sponsorship and support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Library of Congress (LC), the U.K. Joint Information Systems Committee, the Electronic Records Archives Program of the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. On April 1, the Task Force will hold a symposium in Washington, D.C., followed by another on May 6 in the U.K." _Barbara Quint, InformationToday

Notes from the symposium by Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 4/2/2010

Final Report (FEb. 2010)

This article from Inside Higher Ed includes a link to a 116 page pdf report by the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.

A bibliography of more than 2000 citations to articles and books by Charles W. Bailey on data preservation and curation.

OCLC and the HathiTrust have developed a unique WorldCat Local user interface for discovery of items accessible through the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Consists of three reports, "Can a New Research Library Be All-Digital," "On the Cost of Keeping a Book" "Ghostlier Demarcations" (latter discusses large text databases such as Google Books and their impact on scholars)

Focus on Canadian research institutions and the social sciences, considers digital advances with respect to scholarly journals and monographs, library data systems, and issues related to universities.

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory annual conference to be held December 2-3, 2011, University of Michigan, deadline for proposals July 1, 2011, information on conference topics

look for info innovations?

"It might seem silly to look to video-game fans for lessons on how to save our informational heritage, but in fact complex interactive games represent the outer limit of what we can do with digital preservation"

What are new pedagogic approaches for learning with mobile platforms? What are the limitations of the "digital literacies" paradigm and its first world/third world assumptions?

many sessions with implications for digital scholarship and new forms of scholarly communications

Proposes a new way of looking at library organization and services, with three specific areas, reduce redundant collection and storage with a "national network of "last copy" print repositories," throw efforts toward National Digital Library such as proposed by Darnton, coordinate depository and data sharing initiatives, consolidate technical services operations regionally, and establish an LIS R&D for data collection, data sharing, decision making and development of useful information applications.

The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. Over time, however, the work of OAI has expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience.

The development of ADS can be illustrative in how a digital library with linked, standardized metadata improves findability, enables creation of recommendation services and computational research.