Preservation and archiving

Ithaca, NY Have ever wondered what it was like to travel in the Middle East long ago? Rice University’s TIMEA (http://timea.rice.edu/) digital archive offers visitors unique views of Western interactions with the Middle East during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

By Elin Stangeland, DSpace@Cambridge Repository Manager, Cambridge University Library
Ithaca, NY The next DSpace User Group Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Open Repositories Conference (OR10-http://or2010.fecyt.es) in Madrid, Spain on July 8-9, 2010. DSpace invites presentation proposals for DSpace User Group sessions.

Ithaca, NY The 1950s were a hopeful time in New York City. The arts were flourishing as former Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith began photographing Jazz greats such as Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk in a run-down NYC loft. The resulting Jazz Loft Project photographs evoke a time when expansive musical experimentation matched the big cars people were driving out on Sixth Avenue.

Ithaca, NY Paul Gearon, Technical Lead and Developer, DuraSpace, has announced the release of Mulgara 2.1.7. Major changes in this release include: long running queries executed over RMI can now be interrupted; better SPARQL compliance in the algebra, and; more efficient memory use for some operations. The new Mulgara release can be downloaded from: http://mulgara.org/download.html.
About Mulgara

Ithaca, NY  Wake Forest University is the home of “Digital Forsyth”(http://www.digitalforsyth.org/), a digital library comprised of photographs held by multiple institutions in Forsyth County, North Carolina. This Web site offers weekend browsers an opportunity to explore a small and fascinating bit of North Carolina’s cultural, historical and scientific heritage (for example, they can fry anything in Forsyth County).

Information for this blog post was contributed by Bram Luyten, @mire (http://atmire.com/)

Ithaca, NY A portion of the world’s digital knowledge is represented in the “Ranking Web of World Repositories” (http://repositories.webometrics.info/top400_rep.asp), an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab that provides an online ranking of the top 400 repositories in the world. Cybermetrics Lab is a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), a public research body in Spain.

Ithaca, NY In the mood for a soulful tune by Odetta, at talk by Norman Cousins on Citizen Diplomacy, or perhaps a look into the life and times of artist Man Ray as illustrated by Man Ray, artist William Wegman’s dog.

Ithaca, NY  With the theme, “Open Access Repositories now and in the future–from the global and Asia-Pacific points of view” the Digital Repository Federation International Conference (DRFIC) was held on December 3-4, 2009 in Tokyo and focused on topics relevant to digital repository and open access.

Ithaca, NY The IslandLives (http://islandlives.ca/) collection offers weekend browsers a rare glimpse into the lives, environment, culture and history of a small community perched far to the north in the Canadian Maritime Provinces.