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The Library of Utopia

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 30, 2012 / Leave a comment

Google’s ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed? BY NICHOLAS CARR In his 1938 book World Brain, H.G. Wells imagined a time—not very distant, he...

Posted in Digital Assets

Tagged Libraries, World Brain
Web-Scale Discovery

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 24, 2012 / Leave a comment

By Jason Vaughan Connecting users with the information they seek is one of the central pillars of our profession. Web-scale discovery services for libraries are those services capable of searching quickly and seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote preharvested and indexed content, providing relevancy-ranked results in an...

Posted in Digital Assets, KM, Linked Data

Tagged faceted navigation, Libraries, Web search engine
Metadata is everyone’s responsibility

Posted by digitalassetman
/ April 17, 2012 / Leave a comment

Laura Dawson on why metadata is integral to each stage of publishing. by Jenn Webb I recently had the opportunity to check in with publishing consultant Laura Dawson (@ljndawson) on the current state of metadata. Dawson says publishers are starting to understand that metadata is the only indication that an ebook exists...

Posted in Metadata

Tagged Libraries, Library and Information Science, Metadata, Taxonomy, Workflow
Talking about Storage Solutions for the “Lone Arrangers”

Posted by digitalassetman
/ March 28, 2012 / Leave a comment

by Erin Engle The following is a guest post from Thomas Padilla, Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Assistant in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives. We at the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program hear from working professionals across the country that digital preservation can be difficult to implement, let...

Posted in Digital Assets

Tagged Digital preservation, Libraries
New Code of Best Practices – Know Your Fair Use Rights!

Posted by digitalassetman
/ February 15, 2012 / Leave a comment

by Susan Manus As we all know, those working in libraries are facing an increasing number of challenges when it comes to digital material. For one thing, many are struggling with the issue of how to best utilize digital materials while keeping within the boundaries of “fair use.” Thankfully, there is...

Posted in DRM

Tagged Academic library, Best practice, Libraries, Research Libraries
Bit By Bit: Recent Projects on Digital Forensics for Collecting Institutions

Posted by Michelle Jouan
/ January 26, 2012 / Leave a comment

by Butch Lazorchak For the last several years there has been increased attention to the role and application of digital forensic technologies in cultural heritage institutions. Individual practitioners, especially in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, have worked the conference circuit, demonstrating capabilities and discussing the issues and challenges around the...

Posted in DAM, Digital Assets

Tagged Digital Forensic, Digital preservation, Libraries, Library of Congress
A New Librarianship for a New Age

Posted by digitalassetman
/ December 2, 2011 / Leave a comment

David Lankes’ presentation last month at the National Congress of the Italian Library Association explored both the failures and victories of librarians. It is not only our failures, but our victories that threaten the industry. Our field has become fragmented and competitive — two destructive forces that suffocate our present...

Posted in Linked Data, Ontology, Semantic Technology, SemWeb

Tagged Librarian, Libraries, Library and Information Science
Information Literacy, Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship

Posted by digitalassetman
/ September 21, 2011 / Leave a comment

As I’m working closer and closer with our school librarians I’m thinking about the terms we use to describe our roles and the skills we want our students to develop. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve heard myself using the terms information literacy, digital literacy and digital citizenship and...

Posted in Digital Assets, Knowledge Wealth

Tagged digitalliteracy, informationliteracy, Libraries
Metadata looms large at IBC

Posted by digitalassetman
/ August 23, 2011 / Leave a comment

Metadata has never really got the juices going at IBC or anywhere else, but now at least it is being much more talked about and taken seriously by all participants in the content value chain. This will be reflected at IBC2011, where the fast expanding role of metadata in search...

Posted in Metadata

Tagged DAM, Libraries, Metadata, Video