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Standards and Patents and the OpenURL
June 19, 2003In April, the OpenURL Standard, version 1.0 was released as a Draft Standard for Trial Use. Later that month NISO learned that a company had filed patent applications that mirror the OpenURL Framework. This NISO Statement addresses the issues. “This event has raised questions and concerns related to disclosure and our community’s expectations related to [...]
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Libraries cannot preserve digital material they do not own
June 19, 2003Copyright and licensing for digital preservation This article is from the June 2003 issue of Update. “Adrienne Muir describes a new project to identify copyright and licensing issues that currently hinder digital preservation and looks at whether new legislation will help.”
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Report suggests NARA needs more IT expertise
June 19, 2003NARA’s skills gap The National Archives and Records Administration faces a daunting task of preserving digital government records. By 2014, NARA expects to receive almost 11 petabytes worth of records from agencies. This article, by Diane Frank. Federal Computer Week, June 9, 2003, describes an interim report by the National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications [...]
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Like Russian Dolls: Nesting Standards for Digital Preservation
June 19, 2003RLG DigiNews June 15, 2003, Volume 7, Number 3 This article by GŸnter Waibel, of Research Libraries Group, introduces three standards for digital preservation: Open Archival Information System (OAIS), Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS), and NISO[2] Data DictionaryÑTechnical Metadata for Digital Still Images.
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The next killer app!
June 17, 2003RSS – The Next Killer App For Education Imagine having the news that interests you automatically delivered to your desktop, or being alerted to updates on your favorite Web sites without visiting them first. Picture yourself as a news provider to specific people who share your interests or just appreciate your commentary. Most commonly used [...]
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Conference: Preservation, Archiving and Dissemination of Electronic Literature
June 16, 2003e(X)literature Conference 2003 A conference co-sponsored by Electronic Literature Organization and the Digital Cultures Project April 3-4, 2003 University of California, Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 6020 HSSB
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Patriot Act enhances freedoms?!
June 13, 2003Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), in a Deseret News opinion piece, states that the Patriot Act enhances our freedoms. “there has not been one cited instance of abuse to undermine the fact that these tools have saved American lives by allowing law enforcement and intelligence agencies to prevent attacks on our country.” Tell that to the [...]
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GPO to retain printing power
June 11, 2003Government Executive Magazine – 6/6/03 Printing office to retain monopoly power. The Government Printing Office will continue its century-old monopoly on federal agenciesÕ printing jobs, under an agreement the Bush administration announced Friday. The agreement ends outgoing Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch DanielsÕ year-long quest to let agencies avoid using the printing office [...]
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a brief history of content distribution
June 11, 2003konspire2b: a revolution in mass-scale content distribution From printing press (what, no oral tradition?) to P2P and beyond. This item at the site of new software (konspire2b-based) that presents a new model that could make getting the content you want easily.
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Sensitive but Unclassified” Provisions in Homeland Security Act
June 11, 2003OMB Watch reports: “The threat to government openness and information access has been heightened due to subtitle in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 which has gone relatively unnoticed until now. ” A short notice and a more detailed analysis (pdf)