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09 Nov 09
Read Books Free Online - The Best Sites to Read Books Free Online
List of places to find books to read. Doesn't include the Open Library but has some other ideas of places to look.
News: The Interdisciplinary Science Library - Inside Higher Ed
Libraries as leasders in interdisciplinary research and mentions the University of Utah's Uspace as an example.
Virtual Contribution to the Seattle Mashathon | Library Web Chic
Javascript code to add to Serials Solutions that will mark journals as Peer Reviewed.
06 Nov 09
Dennis the Menace in Library - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Dennis and his mom are looking at sign in library pointing to computers, AV, and lecture hall but no books. Caption is "I remember when we came to the library to look for books".
Good to use in presentation about change in libraries and the popular culture perspective.
Copyright Questions & Answers
Blog by Lesley Ellen Harris who focuses on copyright and its impact on libraries and is a frequent contributor to listservs and SLA.
Advocating for Visual Resources Management white_paper
From the Visual Resources Association. Discusses how educational and cultural institutions can manage their visual resources better with the growth of online education and quantity of materials.
05 Nov 09
Science Data Services - Data Inventory
Example at the University of Oregon of the use of the Data Audit Framework developed by the Data Curation Centre. Surveys researchers on their data needs and helps to see where help can be provided in storage and management.
04 Nov 09
UW Libraries Dublin Core Data Dictionaries
Examples of Metadata terms used at the University of Washington with lots of useful links.
Digital Asset Management Systems RLG DigiNews December 15, 2006, Volume 10, Number 6
Article discussing the use of DAMS in museums in three parts. Edited by Gunter Waibel.
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Add Sticky NoteMet’s commitment to asking and answering a series of questions not always built into the development process for digital asset management activities in the not-for-profit world. Our questions included quantitative ones such as: “How big is the collection of assets?” and “How much storage will be required?” We asked questions about proprietorship and access: “Who uses the assets?” and “Who will manage them?” We wondered about the quality and value of the assets: “Should images that are made available to the public be color corrected?” and “If the object’s descriptive record has not been reviewed, may it be distributed along with the asset?” and finally, “Are existing descriptions adequate to support successful searching at all?” We also asked a number of questions that forced the Met’s staff and executives to think through fundamental intellectual property policy positions: “Who decides who may use the assets, both inside and outside of the museum?” and “Is the Met’s goal to profit from the licensing of images, or to support an educational mandate for broad distribution?” All of these questions needed to be considered in light of a process that would, inevitably, seek to automate the answers. Processes and policies that had heretofore been entrusted to individuals within the organization would need to be formalized so that a system might manage them; decisions that had been made on an ad hoc basis now needed to be seen as patterns that formed policies. And as we found answers to our questions, the scope of the project inevitably grew.
- Make sure we ask these questions that non-profits don't always ask in development. Last couple of sentences is crucial to understand because an automated process is hard to overcome once it is established. - on 2009-11-04
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Despite the shift from a return-on-investment to a mission-driven rationale, the project retained its inventory and cataloguing elements, building into each phase activities intended to develop additional inventory and enhance cataloguing. The decision to maintain this emphasis on content development has helped the project to achieve widespread support throughout the institution.
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University of St. Thomas : Information Resources & Technologies : Project Portfolio
Project management home page for St Thomas IRT department. Has an proposal form and resources for project management.
Digital Curation Centre: Curation Lifecycle Model
Graphic that illustrates the various needs and structures that a digital asset plan will need to account for from the Digital Curation Centre. The DCC is an organization that supports the curation of digital data for scholarly and scientific interests.
Getting data asset management right | Platforms - InfoWorld
article on digital asset management software from the IT perspective.
What's the DAM Difference?: Content Management's Best Tool is Digital Asset Management
Article from 2007 that discusses the value of using Digital Asset Management software and its value to the institution.
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The largest and most comprehensive type of DAM system provides complete, enterprise-wide support with a broad range of functionality and configurability. Typically these DAM systems are configured uniquely to support specific customer workflows, provide branded user interfaces and integrate seamlessly with other enterprise systems such as fulfillment systems, authentication systems, transaction servers or Internet portals.
The DAM system is installed on a customer's hardware and has dedicated administrators ensuring its smooth operation. What separates these DAM solutions from departmental systems is the ability to support multiple databases or distributed repositories as well as distribute specific application services on dedicated servers in multiple locations.
03 Nov 09
SAA: CAMPUS CASE STUDIES
Cases of Universities that are dealing with Archival issues and the print to electronic transition.
Digital Media Repository : About
Excellent description of what a digital library is and can do for a University. Produced by Ball State University's Digital Media Repository. Has link to video description that is 5-6 minutes long.
28 Oct 09
Post-capitalist utopia « Prospect Magazine
Helpful basic description of what the TED conference is and who attends. Also describes how people participate in it and its history.
27 Oct 09
School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history 'books'? - USATODAY.com
Follow up on Cushing Academies choice to go digital. Has follow up interviews and references some of the issues with all digital collections like database providers terms and reading electronically.
Archives of CONTENTDM-L@OCLC.ORG
Manage your listserv subscription and search the archives.
Digital Projects at the UNR Libraries; the University Digital Conservancy
Lists projects and the CONTENTdm field properties for each. Great comparison resource. Also has some data dictionaries for some collections.
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