October 2009
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
“Take Control of Your Publications with eScholarship”
Catherine Mitchell- Director, CDL Publishing Group
Monday, October 19, 2009: 4:30 – 6.00 p.m at Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Building, Room 101
In honor of Open Access Week, the Director of the California Digital Library (CDL) will presenting eScholarship, “an initiative of the CDL,” which began in 2002. It currently “houses over 30,000 publications with more than 9 million full-text downloads to date.” Professor Ruth Tringham is the sponsor of this event, which is open to all faculty and students.
Berkeley Prosopography Services and Collection Space Program
Patrick Schmitz
Information Access Seminar
Friday, October 23, 2009, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm at 107 South Hall
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/ias20091023
As part of the Information Access Seminar, Patrick Schmitz, will be presenting CollectionSpace Project. The CollectionSpace project is made up of a variety of institutions, including UC Berkeley, “with the common goal of providing a platform for a collections management system.” The Information Access Seminar occurs ever Friday and is always open to the public.
Luscious Complexity: Transcending the Doohickey
Camille Utterback
October 5, 2009: Sutardja Dai Hall, Main Auditorium, 3rd Floor
http://atc.berkeley.edu/bio/Camille_Utterback/
Recently awarded the MacArthur award, Camille Utterback, a new media, artist, will be discuss how interactive art can engage the public without “without incurring frustration in participants”.
Around the World
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.”
Sun PASIG Fall Meeting
October 7-9, 2009: San Francisco, CA
http://sun-pasig.ning.com/
http://sun-pasig.ning.com/events/pasig-san-francisco-oct-79
“Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) will be hosting a 2 day conference in October. The conference will focus on a variety of topics, ranging from storage technology, repositories, to sustainability. Presenters and current attendees come from institutions from all over the world. Co-sponsored by Stanford, Sun PASIG “is focused on sharing open computing solutions and best practices.”
Sheridan Libraries Awarded $20 Million Grant
http://releases.jhu.edu/2009/10/02/sheridan-libraries-awarded-20-million-grant/
The Sheridan Libraries at John Hopkins were awarded 20 millions dollars from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The money is for the Data Conservancy project, which aims to “build a data research infrastructure for the management of the ever-increasing amounts of digital information created for teaching and research.” The Data Conservancy project “involves individuals from several institutions, with Johns Hopkins University serving as the lead…”
Open Images
http://openimages.eu/about;jsessionid=8E1F315E839C9D7C87676F4A4750056C
Open Images is developed by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Knowledgeland. This project is part of the Images for the Future project. The purpose of the Open Images project “is to offer online access to a selection of archive material to stimulate creative reuse.” All images are under a Creative Commons license.
September 2009
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
5 Major Research Universities Endorse Open-Access Journals
By Ben Terris
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Five-Major-Research/8042/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
UC Berkeley, along with Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and MIT, ’signed a compact agreeing to the “timely establishment” of mechanisms for providing financial support for free open-access journals.’ This is in response to the high costs of purchasing journals, as well as the growing Open Access movement.
CollectionSpace .02 Release
http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/August+2009+Status+Update
The CollectionSpace team is expected to release .02 at the end of the month. The new release will have a slightly different design, as well as “four new user screens….:login, create new landing page, find and edit landing page, and intake. ” The CollectionSpace team is made up of a variety of institutions, including UC Berkeley, “with the common goal of providing a platform for a collections management system.”
New Batch Download Feature in ARTstor
http://havrc.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-batch-download-feature-in-artstor.html
History of Art Visual Resource Center (HAVRC) recently created a 4 minute tutorial demonstrating Artstor’s latest feature: Batch Download. Users are also able to batch download items straight into PowerPoint. Currently, ArtStor is limiting the number of files downloaded. Users are only able to download a 1000 images per semester.
Around the world
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.”
Sun PASIG Fall Meeting
October 7-9, 2009: San Francisco, CA
http://sun-pasig.ning.com/
http://sun-pasig.ning.com/events/pasig-san-francisco-oct-79
“Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) will be hosting a 2 day conference in October. The conference will focus on a variety of topics, ranging from storage technology, repositories, to sustainability. Presenters and current attendees come from institutions from all over the world. Co-sponsored by Stanford, Sun PASIG “is focused on sharing open computing solutions and best practices.”
Data Sharing
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/datasharing/index.html
This week’s Nature features a special section devoted to data sharing. Topics include researchers hesitation to share, pre and post data sharing, as well as the importance of preserving and sharing data.
Library of Congress and DuraCloud Launch Pilot Program Using Cloud Technologies
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/07/15/library-of-congress-and-duracloud-launch-pilot-program-using-cloud-technologies-to-test-perpetual-access-to-digital-content-service-is-part-of-national-digital-information-infrastructure-and-preserva/
The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and DuraSpace are collaborating on a one-year pilot program. The pilot program will “test the use of cloud technologies to enable perpetual access to…digital content.” T Recently developed by DuraSpace, DuraCloud is the new cloud-based service that will be tested. Other partners include the New York Public Library and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Sun in Education Web Seminar Series
“All About Repositories” series
http://www.education-webevents.com/
Part of Sun’s “Technology that Bridges the Digital Divide” seminars, the “All About Repositories” series will begin in September. Along with Sun, DuraSpace and SPARC International will “provide overviews of best practices, technology updates, and key trend analyses for academic resources directors, IT managers, digital librarians, repository managers and developers, and curators.”
UNESCO Digital Library Majaliss opens up classical Arabic literature to public
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29118&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
UNESCO recently launched the Digital Library Majaliss project, which aims to ‘provide free access to hundreds of thousands of pages of classical Arabic literature and to demonstrate, at the same time, the innovative use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for reading, teaching and learning.’ The project is accessible online and on CD-Roms.
