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FDLP Digitization Projects Registry is operational
Well, it’s been almost a year, but the FDLP digitization registry is back online, complete with a fresh new look! via The Digitization Projects Registry is Now Available.
The FDLP Historical Collections
A recent question on the govdoc-l mailing list asked if GPO had ever officially defined the term “legacy collection” or “legacy document” and if the definition goes beyond something that has historical value or importance. I posted a short answer there. Here, I document and explain that brief response. The term was introduced by the […]
What Are We To Keep? (FAQ)
This document is meant to accompany the article, “What are we to Keep?” by James R. Jacobs, Documents to the People (Spring 2015) p 13-19. FAQ What is a Preservation Copy? Research that was prompted by JSTOR’s desire to determine how to guarantee that all of the printed material within its journals would remain available […]
“An alarmingly casual indifference to accuracy and authenticity.” What we know about digital surrogates
In a new article in Portal, Diana Kichuk examines the reliability and accuracy of digital text extracted from printed books in five digital libraries: the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg, the HathiTrust, Google Books, and the Digital Public Library of America. She focuses particularly on the accuracy and utility of the digital text for reading in […]
History of immigration: Map of US immigrant populations in 1903
The Slate Vault today highlighted a “data-packed” map of American immigration in 1903 from the annual report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration. The Vault always posts interesting and beautiful maps, images etc. They also linked to anew-to-me site called Handsome Atlas that has some beautiful scans and visualizations of historic US atlases. GO and check […]
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