Each month, we highlight news relating to digital scholarship, access and preservation at Berkeley and around the world. To contribute, email Lizzy Ha.
On Campus
Barclay Ogden Receives Preservation Award
http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/cunews.php/2009/05/11/barclay-ogden-receives-preservation-awar
Sponsored by Preservations Technologies, this year’s Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award was given to Barclay Ogden, head of the Preservation Department at UC Berkeley. This award “recognizes the contribution of a professional preservation specialist who has been active in the field of preservation and/or conservation for library and/or archival materials.” Ogden has spent the past decades focused on library preservation issues– “from library binding to digitization, from disaster preparedness to collection assessment and identifying preservation priorities.”
The Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
October 5-6, 2009
Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA
http://www.cdlib.org/iPres/
The California Digital Library (CDL) will be hosting the sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres). This conference will be held in San Franciso on October 5-6, 2009. This conference will “bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to explore the latest trends, innovations, and practices in preserving our scientific and cultural digital heritage,” as well as “continue the discussion of creating our digital future.”
Next Generation Melvyl Pilot
http://berkeley.worldcat.org/
Launched in May, this six-month pilot allows users, both on and off campus, to be able to search for resources at all 10 of the UC campus libraries, as well as at other libraries around the world. Users are also able to bookmark and share their searches to their favorite web 2.0 website (e.g Facebook), as well as tag and save searches- creating a list for future reference. This is a joint project between the UC libraries and OCLC. Not all content has been digitized and placed in the pilot yet. “This is a project to create a replacement for the current Melvyl Catalog.”
Around the World
Workshop On Integrating Digital Library Content with Computational Tools and Services
June 19, 2009 in Austin, Texas, USA
See http://www.music-ir.org/sgdl-workshop/sgdl-cfp.pdf for a more complete CFP.
This conference will focus on the creation, development, and future deployment of the “second generation digital libraries” (SGDL). 10 years ago, the development of first generation digital libraries lead to “the browsing, searching and then retrieving of digital materials.” However, with the improvement of technology and services, “exciting new opportunities are arising to create SGDL by extending the standard DL use paradigm to include the analysis of the retrieved materials in a tightly integrated manner.
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