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October 27, 2008
Digital library lecture series
The start of this year's Digital Library lecture series begins this Friday, October 31st at 12:30-2:00 p.m. on the 2nd floor of Kelvin Smith Library in the Dampeer Room.
Dr. Melvyn Goldstein. 'From Basic Research to Digital Archive: The Tibet Oral History Project.'
Specializing in Tibetan society, history & contemporary politics, Dr. Goldstein's remarks on history as well as the modern Tibetan socio-economic change will be complemented with a presentation by Professor David Germano, University of Virginia. Dr. Germano takes the discussion of the digital transformation forward through the next decade and beyond.
Dr. Melvyn Goldstein, John Reynold Harkness Professor of Anthropology (Case), Co-Director of the Center for Research on Tibet.
Professor David Germano, Director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library, Director of the Center for Emerging Research, Scholarship and the Arts, Co-Director of the Tibet Center (University of Virginia)
Free to the Case community, and to Ohio academic & library communities
Seating is open and on a first-come basis.
Upcoming Lectures
- Friday, Nov. 21, 2008: "New Directions in Digital History," Dr. Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)
- Friday, March 20, 2009: "The Intellectual Wealth of Digital Networks," Professor Kathleen Woodward, Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities, (University of Washington)
The 2008-09 Digital Lecture Series is generously funded by the Mario M. Marino Fund for the Innovation and Application of Advanced Information Technologies, the David R. Bender Endowment Fund for Library Staff Development, and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.
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October 14, 2008
Federal guielines
So if theory usually lags behind practice, how long does it take for the feds to catch up? Only time will tell, but at least they have begun work in 2007 on creating a set of guidelines, methods and practices. Their website will eventually have these reports posted. This website is a work in progress, but does show some interesting tendencies of the ephemeral digital form. A list of the sustainability of formats (at this point in time) includes only the formats that seem to be more sustainable (and non-proprietary).
There are two working groups currently in activity, one for still images and the other for audiovisual. I think the video digitization guidelines will be the most interesting to watch for, since video seems to be the most lacking in structure and guidelines (at least, in the 'digital preservation arena'.
Members of these groups include: Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Gallery of Art, the National Library of Medicine, the National Technical Information Service, the National Transportation Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Government Printing Office, Defense Visual Information Directorate of the Department of Defense, the Library of Congress and the Voice of America.
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