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Scott Peterson

The Handle System - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 04 May 12
     
    The Handle System "A digital object may incorporate not only informational elements, i.e., a digitized version of a paper, movie or sound recording, but also the unique identifier of the digital object and other metadata about the digital object." It is the larger group that DOI belongs to and helps with providing electronic resources not only with a persistent link but metadata associated with that resource.
Jennifer Parsons

TED Blog | The wide open future of the art museum: Q&A with William Noel - 0 views

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  • The Walters is a museum that’s free to the public, and to be public these days is to be on the Internet. Therefore to be a public museum your digital data should be free. And the great thing about digital data, particularly of historic collections, is that they’re the greatest advert that these collections have. So: Why on Earth would you limit how people can use them? The digital data is not a threat to the real data, it’s just an advertisement that only increases the aura of the original, so there just doesn’t seem to be any point in putting restrictions on the data.
  • Institutions with special collections, particularly museums — libraries perhaps less so — want to improve their brand and raise visitorship. One way in which they can do that is through advertising. And what better way to advertise than by making instantly available, or as available as possible, images of their collections? Because that’s how they get known.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12
     
    An interview with William Noel, curator of the Walters Art Museum, which recently featured the Archimedes palimpsest in its collection-- both physical and digital.  What's wonderful about that is that its digital collection is under Creative Commons license. I'm a bit confused as to why Noel thinks that libraries don't want to advertise their collections, unless he's referring to the fact that libraries typically contain copyrighted material in their collections.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12
     
    Oh, and you can get to the digital exhibition of the Archimedes palimpsest at http://archimedespalimpsest.net/. It's not terribly user-friendly (to quickly look at the images, select "Google Book of the Archimedes Palimpsest"), but being able to access the raw TIFF images is pretty darn cool.
Scott Peterson

Education Chief Wants Textbooks To Go Digital - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 04 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 04 Oct 12
     
    Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants the U.S. to begin adopting all digital textbooks, taking as a model South Korea which expects to become fully digital by 2015. Proponents argue digital textbooks are an improvement as they are more immerse and can include multimedia components to help with learning.
Janine Gordon

A universal digital library is within reach - latimes.com - 0 views

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  • But the dream of a universal digital library lives on. Now a coalition of libraries and archives has come together to create a Digital Public Library of America to fulfill the original vision of a digital library for all. It could well be that an effort without commerce in the mix will have an easier time of it.
  • Janine Gordon on 02 May 12
     
    I think I'd heard of the Digital Public Library of America; I wonder if it will be able to get past the issues Google faced.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the article is right that a non-profit organization will get farther than Google did. It will also be nice to have an organization outside of the ALA that will make a stand on the copyright issues involved in digitization.
Scott Peterson

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  • Scott Peterson on 02 Aug 13
     
    HP is offering a service to create magazines and other serial publications in the "cloud." What is interesting is both print and digital publishing is offered. Some of the publications listed do use an ISSN number, but it looks like it's up to the author to obtain it. Print options include worldwide shipping and direct mail, while it looks like the digital version requires a MagCloud account to read the material, although it is available as a downloadable PDF. What I find most interesting is how this service effectively replaces a traditional publisher altogether, although some of the features a publisher can offer--such as marketing and industry contacts, are missing. Digital prices to the consumer are substantially less than print, but I can't find anything about pricing to the user without signing up for an account.
adrienne_mobius

Smartphones Have Bridged The Digital Divide - ReadWrite - 0 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 17 May 13
     
    "Since at least the 1990s, when personal computers first became commonplace, public policy experts have worried the ill effects of a Digital Divide. That is, a learning, socialization and economic gap across socio-economic status, race and gender caused by unequal access to computing resources."
adrienne_mobius

New 'Digital Divide' Seen in Wasting Time Online - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 30 May 12
     
    Librarians may find this paragraph interesting: The new divide is such a cause of concern for the Federal Communications Commission that it is considering a proposal to spend $200 million to create a digital literacy corps. This group of hundreds, even thousands, of trainers would fan out to schools and libraries to teach productive uses of computers for parents, students and job seekers.
adrienne_mobius

A Digital Dilemma: Ebooks and Users' Rights | American Libraries Magazine - 0 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 01 Jun 12
     
    "The current model of digital content delivery for libraries places library users' privacy at risk. Authorizing the loan of an ebook or the use of a database can communicate unique identifiers or personally identifiable information that reveals a user's identity."
Sharla Lair

How to Turn a City into a Library - The Digital Reader - 0 views

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  • Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12
     
    Interesting project in Austria. They placed 70 QR codes around the city each leading to a particular ebook or mp3 that can be downloaded for free.  The blog states, "This project is in effect giving digital content a finite location, thus removing one of the key aspects that separates paper books from ebooks". 
  • Jennifer Parsons on 11 Jul 12
     
    I wonder if the posts are in places with literary or historical significance-- e.g., a QR code near the former home of a famous author, leading to excerpts or readings from his or her books. I can see a huge potential for museums here, actually. For example, at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, a QR code can be posted to information or collections on the Dred Scott Decision. Or here in Columbia, QR codes posted in the Red Campus can pull up copies of historical documents on the 1892 fire.
Jennifer Parsons

Digital Preservation in a Box | A product of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance - 0 views

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  • Jennifer Parsons on 27 Jul 12
     
    A nice collection of information for those new to the concept of digital preservation, as well as some tools to get your institution started.
Jennifer Parsons

Digital Public Library of America » Blog Archive » Dan Cohen Named Founding E... - 0 views

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  • At the Center, Cohen has overseen projects ranging from new publishing ventures (PressForward) to online collections (September 11 Digital Archive) to software for scholarship (the popular Zotero research tool).
  • Jennifer Parsons on 05 Mar 13
     
    This sounds like a good choice, and makes me even more excited for what the DPLA could have in store.
adrienne_mobius

Book News: Vast 'Digital Public Library Of America' Opens Today : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 26 Apr 13
     
    The Digital Public Library of America opened last Thursday. http://dp.la/
adrienne_mobius

Newsweek magazine to stop printing, go all-digital - Yahoo! News - 1 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 18 Oct 12
     
    Print dies: Newsweek to go all-digital. The magazine will be subscription-based and available on e-readers.
Scott Peterson

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  • Scott Peterson on 10 May 12
     
    An interesting although perhaps idealistic view of what could happen. The author contends that Google faltered in paying and making arrangements with publishers rather than defending Book Search as fair use, although I'd argue it led directly to the Google Play store for selling media including books. Libraries cooperating to make a Digital Public Library is to me a much more agreeable plan than getting materials digitized and put online by means of a corporation.
adrienne_mobius

'Library of the Future' Gets $1-Million Boost From Humanities Endowment - Wired Campus ... - 0 views

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  • adrienne_mobius on 09 Aug 12
     
    The Digital Public Library of America initiative received $1 million to support the creation of the infrastructure for a national open-access digital library.
Scott Peterson

Norway Decided to Digitize All the Norwegian Books - 0 views

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    An ambitious plan for Norway to scan all printed material in Norwegian in about 15 years, based on how copies of any new book are to be deposited in the national library and therefore by scanning the entire national library all materials will be digitized.
Scott Peterson

The Digital Preservation Network - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 29 Nov 12
     
    An interesting organization but sounds ultimately like a variation of the LOCKKS concept, namely preserving a digital archive by means of multiple copies on data nodes, so if one fails others step in to replace it.
Jennifer Parsons

Vatican Digitizing its Entire Library into 2.8 Petabytes of Data - AppNewser - 0 views

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  • Jennifer Parsons on 15 Mar 13
     
    The 2.8 petabytes of storage space was donated to the Vatican by EMC, as part of its Information Heritage Initiative.
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

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  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
Sharla Lair

TED Books Launches New iPad App with Enhanced eBooks - The Digital Reader - 2 views

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  • Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12
     
    For those of you that enjoy TED videos...
  • anonymous on 11 Jul 12
     
    So awesome. I'm not sure I'll pay $3 for many of these, but it's cool just the same. I'm actually kinda surprised they are directly monetizing their old content.
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