Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 420.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:38:02 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: December eSpectra and RLG DigiNews available
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
December 17, 2001
December 2001 issue of RLG DigiNews now available
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
December 2001 Issue of eSpectra Available
-the online news portal of the Museum Computer Network
http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/
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December 2001 issue of RLG DigiNews now available
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
>Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 06:55:56 +0000
>From: Nancy Elkington <Nancy_Elkington@NOTES.RLG.ORG>
>
The December 2001 issue includes:
Volume 5, Number 6
Editor's Interview:
Collaboration of RLG/OCLC With Digital Archiving Initiatives,
an Interview with Robin Dale and Meg Bellinger
Feature Article
Emulation vs. Migration: Do Users Care?, by Margaret Hedstrom
and Clifford Lampe
Highlighted Web Site - eXtensible Name Service
FAQ - Image Search Engines
[material deleted]
December 2001 Issue of eSpectra Available
-the online news portal of the Museum Computer Network
http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/
The latest issue of this very useful compendium of news and information
should not be missed. Below the announcement I include a few representative
items.
David Green
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>Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:52:32 -0500
>To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
>From: Leslie Johnston <johnston@gsd.harvard.edu>
>Subject: December 2001 Issue of eSpectra
>
>The December 2001 issue of eSpectra is now available. eSpectra, the online
>news portal from the Museum Computer Network, is updated monthly and
>includes time-sensitive information like event/conference announcements
>and job postings, as well as short features and late-breaking
>announcements. It is available at: http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/
>
>Cultural Heritage Organizations: If your institution already has a page
>or a site devoted to a technology project that the community might be
>interested in, submit the URL to me for the community projects page on
>eSpectra. Please submit material directly to me at
<johnston@gsd.harvard.edu>.
>
>Leslie Johnston
>Head of Instructional Technology and LIS, Harvard Design School
>Editor, eSpectra, cultural heritage information management portal,
> and Spectra, MCN's community awareness publication
>johnston@gsd.harvard.edu
>http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/
* Digging Deep Digitally
The field of archaeology will receive a big boost from 3D computer modeling
techniques. Thanks to a $2 million grant from the National Science
Foundation, researchers at Columbia University are building digital tools
that will enable archaeologists to examine the details of sites without
having to dig or damage structures. The new 3D modeling techniques will
also allow archaeologists to take virtual tours of sites. The digital tools
include a mobile robot equipped with a laser scanner for taking high-detail
shots aboveground, and a radar sensor for taking shots deep underground. A
3D model of sites can be produced once the data is scanned into a computer.
Initial tests already have been completed, but there are plans to test the
digital tools at the Amheida site in the Dakhla Oasis, in the western
desert of Egypt, and to put the computerized data of the site online.
Read the Information Week article at:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011026S0008
and the New York Times article (requires site registration) at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/technology/circuits/08NEXT.html
* Report Released on ABC Metadata Model
Authors Carl Lagoze and Jane Hunter recently released a paper describing
the latest version of the ABC metadata model, developed within the Harmony
international digital library project to provide a common conceptual
framework with which to ease interoperability among metadata vocabularies
from different domains.
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~oyama/dc2001/proceedings/product/paper-26.pdf
* Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonne
The National Gallery of Art presents the Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions
Limited) online catalogue raisonne, a listing of prints produced at this
Los Angeles studio from 1966 through 1996. http://www.nga.gov/gemini/
* High Speed History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is the first independent
museum to connect the high-speed research and education networks of
Internet2."The connection to Internet2 will expand the museum's computing
resources and therefore its research capabilities," Museum provost Michael
Novaceck said in a statement. "The AMNH is uniquely poised both to generate
scientific advances from this new technology and to communicate these
advances to scientists, researchers, students and the public around the
world."Novaceck said that fields such as comparative genomics,
astrophysics, systematics, biodiversity sciences and geology would all
benefit from the connection.
Reported in Wired News, 12/3/2001
* Misguided Guidelines for Interpreting Fair Use
In an article discussing the evolution of "fair use" guidelines that have
evolved in the wake of the Copyright Act of 1976, author Kenneth Crews
notes that none of the guidelines has ever had the force of law to back it
up, and, in fact, most of the guidelines bear little relationship to the
law of fair use.
Read the Ohio State Law Journal article at:
http://www.osu.edu/units/law/LawJournal/crews.htm
* International Resources from the Library of Congress
This site acts as a gateway to a number of Library of Congress (LOC)
international resources.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/
* The Canadian West
From the National Archives of Canada, this Web exhibition includes over
200 pictures, maps, and documents on European exploration and settlement of
Western Canada, from the 1600s to 1930.
http://www.archives.ca/05/0529/052901_e.html
* Cultural Materials from RLG - Trial Subscriptions
Effective 1 November 2001, free one-month trial subscriptions to the new
RLG Cultural Materials service are available. RLG Cultural Materials brings
together rich digital collections from an international alliance of
museums, libraries and archives, and provides a powerful, user-friendly new
interface to support discovery and learning. http://www.rlg.org/culturalres/
Information about a free one-month trial:
http://www.rlg.org/agreements/trialrcm.html
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