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Category Archives: Digital Libraries
NY Times Information Graphics
29-Jul-10Fascinating video describing how the NY Times graphics department works. //
Networked Thinking
08-Jul-10Extremely rewarding slide presentation by a Google UX researcher. The Real Life Social Network v2 View more documents from Paul Adams. Main takeaways for me: “Make no mistake about this. Everyone in this room will need to learn how to design social features on websites. Whether you like it or not.” (biggest surprise from our [...]
Bookmark: Decapod Project
27-May-10Decapod is an interesting project with partners from Germany, Canada, and Anarbor, MI and funded through The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. From the site: The solution will address these problem areas: Allow the camera based capture of bound material by using computer vision techniques to produce flat, clean page images equivalent to those produced from [...]
Presentation on building a library app
24-May-10Tito Sierra has a very interesting presentation on building library web apps, gave recently for the JHU Libraries Assembly. Lots of good references cited. Sierra, T. (forthcoming). “Opportunities for Mobile Enhanced Library Services and Collections”, Johns Hopkins University Libraries Assembly 2010, Baltimore, MD, May 21, 2010. [ppt] via NCSU DLI
2010 Northwest Archivists Presentation
10-May-10Here are the slides from my recent presentation at the 2010 Northwest Archivists conference in April. This tells of the technical and “mindset” decisions we made for our 2009 digitization project at the National Archives. Great experience in Seattle, I’m glad I attended.
Large file sharing
11-Mar-10CNET has a good run-down of free and fee-based file sharing services: There are now a handful of free and paid services that make it easy to host these gigantic files and send them to a friend, family member, or business associate.
DIY Portable Copy Stand
15-Oct-09Very cool do it yourself project from Instructables.com:
What’s the most efficient method for nearly choking a small digitization shop? Success. That’s something we’re experiencing at The University of Montana and we couldn’t be happier.
Apple’s Kindle Killer Coming?
29-Jul-09The rumors are beginning to be convincing: Book publishers have been in talks with Apple and are optimistic about being included as part of its new portable tablet-sized computer