The content on the web now 1 trillion pages. If this had been done as a formal project, it would have taken an effort on the order of several world wars. But it has pretty much been done in our spare time.
Our institutions are built on the assumption that information is scarce, but [...]
Edition Production & Presentation Technology (EPPT)
Kevin Kiernan
What you need to get started:
Digital images
Corresponding text
DTD
Software avaiable for download.
Easy to get started.
Encoding perspectives:
EPPT desktop, general editing
ImagText, encoding links between image and text
OverLay, combining views for textual analysis
DucType, paleographical anlysis
Glossary, comptehensive indexing
Quires, collation and reconstruction
SaMod, historiacal collation
Search
Customizing perspectives
Can create links to specific locations in the image file and provide multiple views [...]
Tom, April 17th 2007
Institutional Repositories: What are We Learning?
What are we learning from repository implementations? [two speakers were unable to attend; others filled in, names were missed at introduction]
Cliff Lynch: We have now had some experience with building repositories and have learned that they do not populate themselves.
CalTech:
Started in 2000
Use ePrints software
Started with computer science technical reports
Moved onto other low-hanging fruit.
Began [...]
Tom, April 17th 2007
CNI Opening Plenary
Stephen Murray, Prof. Of Art History and Architecture, Columbia University
Established one of the first new media centers.
Digital Technology in the Humanistic Quest: Production and Representation of Space in the Romanesque Churches of the Bourbonnais
Academics endlessly represent things; we write books about things that are not there, but there are limits to representation. There is a [...]
Tom, April 16th 2007
Report from the 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting of the Coalitiion for Networked Information
I’ll be reporting from the CNI meeting in Phoenix this next couple of days.
Tom, April 16th 2007
Universal Access to Human Knowledge
Brewster Kahle, Founder/Director, Internet Archive
Open access, the ability to see things for free, but also download and use things for new and different purposes.
How do we go about building large digital libraries?
“From shelves to servers” (Chinese digital library folks)
Boston Public Library inscription carved over door, “Free to All.”
Opportunity: universal access to all knowledge, perserved and [...]
Tom, March 7th 2007
Reaction to De Lange Conference
Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution, comments on conference experience.
Tom, March 7th 2007
Libraries in the Age of Cyberinfrastructure-enhanced Knowledge Communities
Dan Adkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, NSF
Emerging Libraries in the Content of “x” in Transition
Libraries=institutions that will step up to provide services for participatory communities in the digital age
Institutional forms:
libraries in transition
universities in transition
research/discovery in transition
learning/education in transition
Context: openess, cultures of contrbution, open participatory infrastructure, CI-enabled knowledge communities
Threads of opportunity (inflection point)
International e-science movement
Openness movement
Concepts, [...]
Tom, March 7th 2007
Scientific Discovery in the Information Age
Michael Turner, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Exponential thinking
Four exponentials:
compute power
storage capacity
bandwidth
sensors/capture (ccd)
previously intractable problems can be solved/addressed because of the advancement of these exponentials
distributed sensors to gather data, small and large scales
GEOSS, EOS NASA 24 sattelites, generating petabytes of data
LIGO
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
big science requires big collaborations
simulations
more, faster, complex
still nowhere near a sustainable infrastructure
unexpected consequences [...]
Tom, March 7th 2007
Public Libraries and Open Access Publishing in Biomedical Sciences
Harold Varmus
Digital age makes an optimal archive possible, universal, rapid distribution of new work. Benefits: equity, better science, reduced costs.
Obstacles: entrenched interests, cultural norms, (not technology).
Features of the optimal digital library: universal accessibility encyclopedia content, full search ability, high utility (minimize copyright restrictions), sustainability.
PubMed Central
chartered in 1999, full-text extension of PubMed. But 90% of journals [...]
Tom, March 6th 2007
