Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 202.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
[1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (37)
Subject: RLG DigiNews: Digitization Quality Benchmarks;
Emulation Test; Metatadata for Digital Archival
Collections
[2] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (20)
Subject: IP NEWS/OPINION: ABA Reviews UCITA; Editorials on
Supreme Court & Term Extension
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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:02:25 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: RLG DigiNews: Digitization Quality Benchmarks; Emulation
Test; Metatadata for Digital Archival Collections
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
August 23, 2001
RLG DigiNews August, 2001 issue is now available
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
Feature Articles:
* Digital Reproduction Quality: Benchmark Recommendations,
by Daniel Greenstein and Gerald George
* Emulation, Preservation, and Abstraction,
by David Holdsworth and Paul Wheatley
* Metadata for Archival Collections: The University of Toronto's
'Barren Lands' Project,
by Marlene van Ballegooie
The August RLG DigiNews contains some quite interesting pieces. The
Greenstein-George piece summarizes a Digital Library Federation initiative
to consider the creation of some quality benchmarks for digitization of
books and journals. For further information on the benchmark and
background, see the DLF page "Registry of Digital Reproductions of
Paper-based Books and Serials" http://www.diglib.org/collections/reg/reg.htm.
Holdsworth & Wheatley summarize current work within the Michigan-Leeds
CAMILEON project (Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds: Emulating the
Old on the New) that is practically testing the emulation model as a real
digital preservation strategy. (Emulation is the re-creation on current
hardware of the technical environment required to view and use digital
objects from earlier times). The goal of the project the authors write on
is to run in emulation a complex preserved digital object of some
complexity with sufficient verisimilitude to reproduce the significant
properties of the original experience.
Marlene van Ballegooie describes the various metadata requirements for a
complex Canadian digital archival project and how the metadata enables
users to discover and retrieve information from the archive (containing
5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs,
maps, newspaper articles, and published reports).
David Green
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Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:03:10 +0100
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: IP NEWS/OPINION: ABA Reviews UCITA; Editorials on Supreme
Court & Term Extension
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
August 23, 2001
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NEWS/OPINION
1. Editorials on Supreme Court Reviewing the Copyright Term Extension Act
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22911-2001Aug16.html
http://www.sptimes.com/News/082101/Opinion/Drawing_a_line_on_cop.shtml
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ESTABLISHES A TASK FORCE TO REVIEW UCITA
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2. Editorials on Supreme Court Reviewing the Copyright Term Extension Act
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22911-2001Aug16.html
http://www.sptimes.com/News/082101/Opinion/Drawing_a_line_on_cop.shtml
A number of editorials in the press are encouraging the Supreme Court to
review the Eldred v Ashcroft case that maintains that the Sonny Bono
Copyright Term Extension Act was unconstitutional. In February 2001, a
three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled
that the Term Extension Act was constitutional. The plaintiffs plan to ask
the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal. The Washington Post and the St.
Petersburg Times are encouraging the review.
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