Take part in virtual library legislative day
I’ve always been bummed that Depository Library Council meeting and conference usually doesn’t take place during the annual library legislative day. But now we can all take part despite being thousands of miles away from Washington DC. We urge all our readers to take Part in Virtual Library Legislative Day. Email or call your representatives […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report 5/4/2014
It was a slow week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. FEATURED DATABASE Today’s featured database is from Pam Crawford, who maintains the Kansas page: Kansas Road Conditions – http://511.ksdot.org/KanRoadPublic/Default.aspxDatabase of current road conditions is searchable by region. The resulting customized map shows current road conditions due to weather or road […]
State Agency Databases Activity Report 4/27/2014
It was a typical week for the volunteers at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. FEATURED DATABASE Today’s featured database is from Louise Buckley, who maintains the Virginia page: Historical Highway Marker Database – http://dhr.virginia.gov/HistoricMarkers/Account/Logon – Search by keyword, zip code, county or city, route number or name, or marker number. Results include marker name, […]
Temporal Context in Digital Preservation
Temporal context is an important and much overlooked aspect of preservation. Users of preserved information need a way of using that information in its original context. Many born-digital documents are not isolated and complete in themselves, but are part of a network of documents. Providing temporal context means preserving the context of a document at […]
Examples of challenges of web-harvesting for digital preservation
Have you ever wondered why preserving web-published information is a complex task? Here are three examples of what makes “web harvesting” a difficult and inexact method of digital preservation. Keystone XL Pipeline: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) To preserve this page intact, one would have to collect a total of 13 urls: 7 images, […]