DPLA Platform Overview
8 weeks ago by rybesh
This overview attempts to lay out provisional directions for the development of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) platform.
dpla
digital
library
8 weeks ago by rybesh
WireTap Magazine - Free Association: Sound of Silence
december 2008 by rybesh
Google recently made a deal with book publishers over access to scanned books for Google Book Search. We have to be vigilant that they don't snub the reading public the way they are currently dissing the listening, writing and remixing public on Blogger.
google
digital
rights
music
blogging
copyright
policy
december 2008 by rybesh
JeromeDL - e-Library with Semantics - Home
september 2008 by rybesh
With JeromeDL's social and semantic services every library user can bookmark interesting books, articles or other materials in semantically annotated directories.
digital
library
tools
semweb
metadata
research
september 2008 by rybesh
INEX Book Track - Active reading task
july 2008 by rybesh
The main aim of this task is to explore how hardware or software tools for reading e-books can provide support to users engaged with a variety of reading related activities, such as fact finding or learning.
digital
books
interface
usability
design
research
evaluation
methods
july 2008 by rybesh
CORDIS : ICT : Programme : Digital libraries and content
july 2008 by rybesh
EU-funded research on digital culture and digital libraries deals with leading-edge information and communication technologies for expanding access to and use of Europe's rich cultural and scientific resources.
digital
culturalheritage
research
european
july 2008 by rybesh
Papyrus
july 2008 by rybesh
Intends to be a dynamic digital library which will understand user queries in the context of a specific discipline, look for content in a domain alien to that discipline and return the results presented in a way useful and comprehensive to the user.
history
journalism
archives
digital
library
semweb
multimedia
digitization
july 2008 by rybesh
Google Books Without Pix - The New York Review of Books
june 2008 by rybesh
Unless and until some deal can be worked out for digital rights to images, the focus of the digital library is limited to text—just as we enter the golden age of visual narration.
illustration
narrative
digital
library
scanning
law
policy
copyright
archives
june 2008 by rybesh
Perseus Project's Java Hopper
november 2007 by rybesh
Services include the ability to search and browse a large variety of texts and can be used with Perseus' Art and Archaeology Module.
digital
library
opensource
code
classics
art
archaeology
java
november 2007 by rybesh
Digital Humanities 2008
august 2007 by rybesh
The joint international conference is the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities.
digital
humanities
conference
2008
finland
august 2007 by rybesh
The VRE project page
june 2007 by rybesh
Liverpool project to integrate the Fab4 (Multivalent) browser, the Cheshire XML search engine, and the Kepler (Ptolemy) workflow engine.
web
annotation
xml
search
digital
library
architecture
june 2007 by rybesh
DSpace System Documentation: Contents
june 2007 by rybesh
DSpace is an open source digital repository software system for research institutions.
digital
library
archives
opensource
code
june 2007 by rybesh
The Times Morgue Packs Up and Ships Out
may 2007 by rybesh
The clips convey information that the searcher may not have known to look for—often simply through the layout and typeface, which an engine such as Nexis doesn’t preserve.
newspaper
archives
visualmedia
design
semantics
interface
search
digital
may 2007 by rybesh
Ithaka :: Welcome to Ithaka
april 2007 by rybesh
Ithaka is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.
library
academia
education
digital
infrastructure
april 2007 by rybesh
Calisphere - A World of Digital Resources
march 2007 by rybesh
More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts.
california
history
digital
archives
image
documents
news
comics
art
march 2007 by rybesh
Ramesh Jain: History preservation in digital age
march 2007 by rybesh
Sensors (particularly cameras) can be used directly to access the real world. This will provide much more flexible access than a photo or digitized version would.
history
digital
archives
archivingthepresent
camera
image
video
march 2007 by rybesh
CyArk - 3d Heritage Archive Network
march 2007 by rybesh
Using the latest laser-scanning technology, CyArk collects the most accurate 3D models of World Heritage Sites and stores them safely in a publicly accessible archive.
archaeology
architecture
digital
archives
3d
image
video
march 2007 by rybesh
Microsoft Live Labs - Live Labs Manifesto
november 2006 by rybesh
We wish to generalize the virtuous cycle to the rest of society: empowering people to create in whatever domain they chose, facilitating the exchange of any digital artifact, and cultivating communities of all forms to the benefit of all.
commercial
research
creative
democracy
community
digital
media
collaboration
november 2006 by rybesh
Martin Hand
november 2006 by rybesh
Two principal areas of research: (1) the sociology of digital technologies, particularly photography and Internet; (2) the sociology of ‘ordinary’ or ‘mundane’ technologies, particularly in domestic contexts.
sociology
digital
media
image
photography
everyday
domestic
academia
research
november 2006 by rybesh
Axmedis
november 2006 by rybesh
The AXMEDIS International Conference series aims to explore cross-media and digital-media content production, processing, management, standards, representation, sharing, protection and rights management.
mobile
digital
media
mpeg-21
music
video
tools
research
drm
standards
metadata
november 2006 by rybesh
Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University
september 2006 by rybesh
Mission is to research and develop techniques and tools to automatically analyse and index digital video information and allow content-based operations such as browsing, searching, alerting, filtering and summarisation.
digital
video
contentanalysis
research
search
summarization
academia
september 2006 by rybesh
Digital TV and the World
august 2006 by rybesh
Digital TV and the World is an on-going experiment in the use of small format digital cameras and laptop computers to report compelling stories of individual struggle from around the world.
digital
tv
web
video
journalism
august 2006 by rybesh
UC Berkeley Journalism / Digital TV
august 2006 by rybesh
Digital TV and the World is an initiative to create new styles of global reportage that take a close-up look at ordinary people and the issues they face.
digital
tv
web
video
journalism
august 2006 by rybesh
The Progress & Freedom Foundation
may 2006 by rybesh
The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy.
capitalism
digital
media
public
policy
may 2006 by rybesh
enikos - the power of MPEG-21
april 2006 by rybesh
enikos provides the first set of tools that allow users to browse, create and customise digital items compliant with the MPEG-21 standard.
commercial
mpeg-21
australia
digital
media
delivery
april 2006 by rybesh
| The Economics of Open Content Symposium - WGBH Forum Network
april 2006 by rybesh
Complete recordings of The Economics of Open Content Symposium held at MIT in January 2006.
collaboration
commons
communication
conference
digital
culture
economics
newmedia
opensource
IP
april 2006 by rybesh
Bruce Sterling: Delete our cultural heritage?
march 2006 by rybesh
The world suffers a silent phenomenon of "digital decay". This quirky realm is mostly populated by librarians, archivists and museum curators, plus the occasional anxious scientist and panicky megacorporate record clerk.
digital
media
decay
archives
library
future
ideas
culture
march 2006 by rybesh
Bolt: Watch Videos, Share Photos, and Upload Music to your Online Profile
february 2006 by rybesh
A place where you can store, organize and share all the media you create in the course of your digital life.
digital
media
collecting
community
social
music
video
digitalyouth
timetags
february 2006 by rybesh
Rumsfeld: U.S. propaganda needs to enter digital age | CNET News.com
february 2006 by rybesh
The Pentagon chief said today's weapons of war include e-mail, BlackBerries, instant messaging, digital cameras and blogs.
propaganda
infowar
mobile
image
sms
camera
blog
usa
government
digital
february 2006 by rybesh
Download generation "apathetic" - age of Repetition comes to a close
january 2006 by rybesh
Releases are signals now, ways to announce your identity or your culture's identity. Ways to differentiate yourself from what came directly before, to comment and flow futuristic with it.
music
culture
identity
digital
audio
january 2006 by rybesh
DV Guru: Top Four Non-Linear Editors
november 2005 by rybesh
We've compiled the top four non-linear editors according to ease of use, price, motion effects and learning curve.
digital
video
editing
tools
reviews
november 2005 by rybesh
Instant Music
october 2005 by rybesh
Convert your old collection of cassettes and LPs into crisp, clear digital audio.
digital
audio
hardware
wishlist
music
october 2005 by rybesh
"Digital Cinema Technology Is Our Technology" - Interview with George Lucas
october 2005 by rybesh
"Instead of making a two-hour movie, we're going to make 150 hours worth of [TV] movies for the same amount of money."
tv
cinema
video
tools
ideas
digital
delivery
october 2005 by rybesh
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