From the Digital-Preservation list.CALL FOR PAPERS4th International Digital Curation Conference - Radical Sharing:Transforming Science?Closing Date for Submissions: 25 July 2008********************************************************************In partnership with the National e-Science Centre and supported by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) we are holding our 4th International Digita...

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The JISC Digitisation blog has posted the image below from Wired magazine. Go ahead...stare at the words in the table and think. In one year, the amount of photos uploaded to Facebook equal all of the data and images collected by the Hubble space telescope. All of the videos on YouTube are nearly five times the size of the data & images collected by Hubble. And the amount of data processed by G...

At the American Library Association Annual Conference, which is happening now, Kirtas is unveiling a machine named SkyView. The SkyView 3525 provides an overhead solution for large format materials including fold-out pages in books. To the right is the photo of the machine that Kirtas included in its Summer 2008 newsletter.What I find interesting is that companies, who are already providing equipme...

I had not seen the press release that contained that line before the SLA conference. John Yokley made me aware of it when I visited his booth. The press release says that PTFS :has announced that the company plans to release a turnkey Open Source Integrated Library System (ILS) and integrated Digital Library content management solution. Systems will be available for installation at customers' sites...