Michael Oliveira reports on Canada’s national digital library.
“Across Canada, efforts are being made to digitize some of our oldest and more important historical documents so they can be preserved indefinitely and accessed online by anyone across the country, or even around the world.
While those working behind the scenes are pleased with the progress to date, they can’t help but look a little jealously at what’s happening down south and across the Atlantic.”
From Michael Oliveira’s article on www.macleans.ca, “Researchers work to build a national online library to house Canada’s history”
White House solicits input on digital preservation.
“The White House Blog reported last week that the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has released two Requests for Information (RFI), “soliciting public input on long term preservation of and public access to the results of federally funded research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications.” These requests are in reaction to the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which President Obama signed earlier this year, calling upon the OSTP to collaborate with other agencies and create policies assuring public access to and preservation of the results of federally funded unclassified research.”
From the DLF post, “White House Calls For Input on Digital Data Preservation and Access”
Nate Hill shares his thoughts on the National Digital Public Library conference.
“I’m in Los Angeles now for the National Digital Public Library conference, which promises to be a group of forward thinking, influential public librarians and library administrators thinking through how they might contribute to, benefit from, and provide end users with valuable services from a Digital Public Library of America. Here is the agenda. Briefly, here are the two things I have on my mind going into this.”
From Nate Hill’s post on the PLA Blog, “The National Digital Public Library (DPLA) conference”
Jeffrey Schnapp muses on interfacing digital and physical libraries.
“The answer, I believe, lies in the creation of innovative pop-up modules, kiosks but without the abysmal design of contemporary media stations with their formica- or corian-encased touchscreens or bolted-down keyboards. The inventive vein that shaped early experiments in multimedia kiosks, like those designed in the 1920s for the streets of revolutionary Moscow by Gustav Klucis, long ago ran dry and we find ourselves surrounded by dreary and dronelike post-industrial descendants.”
From Jeffrey Schnapp’s post on his website, “DPLA: conjugating the physical and the digital”