Chronicling America Has a New Look!
Gary has a nice summary of how Chronicling America Has a New Look! (INFOdocket, by Gary D. Price, May 29, 2011).
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/Continue reading
List of government services moving to The Cloud
Agencies identify 78 services for cloud transition, By Joseph Marks, NextGov (05/26/2011).
Federal agencies have identified 78 computer systems they plan to migrate to the cloud within a year, according to the Office of Management and Budget. ...Computer clouds essentially are large banks of computer servers that can operate much closer to full capacity than standard servers by rapidly repacking data as one customer surges in usage and another one dips. Data storage in the cloud is operated like electricity grids or other utilities, with customers paying only for what they use. A handful of low-risk government services, such as websites that don't take in sensitive public information, are already in privately owned cloud space.Agencies Have Identified 78 Systems Migrating to the Cloud Within One Year (10 page PDF listing and describing services by agency). Continue reading
Preserving History at the U.S. National Library of Medicine
Preserving History at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, by Kristi Davenport, Peter Gabriele, Stephen Greenberg, Holly Herro, Christie Moffatt, Paul Theerman, and Jeffrey S. Reznick, History News Network (May 23, 2011).
In this landmark year for the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)--its 175th anniversary--its staff have been facing down nature through a project that looks to the next 175 years and beyond. Engaging in the emerging field of forensic conservation--a cross-over application of forensic science and state-of-the-art analytical technologies--staff are seeking to protect and save for future generations one of the most important historical documents of the twentieth century: the first summary of the genetic code, created by the American biochemist and 1968 Nobel Laureate, Dr. Marshall Nirenberg (1927-2010), whose papers the Library makes publicly available through Profiles in Science, the NLM's premier digital manuscript project that celebrates twentieth-century leaders in biomedical research and public health. Written in multiple blue-ballpoint pen inks on several sheets of 8 1/2" x 11" paper taped together with pressure-sensitive tape, the Nirenberg genetic code chart records the author's deciphering of the genetic code contained in DNA.Continue reading
State Agency Databases Report 6/29/2011
State Agency Databases Report 6/29/2011 There's been new activity for the State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States project on the ALA GODORT wiki. I've decided to start making occasional reports when it seems like there is enough activity to justify a report. Databases removed from project pages due to dead and apparently unrecoverable links: Arizona - Who's Who in Arizona GIS - WRA/WRITE Project Database - Brownfields Search Utility New Jersey - Brownfields SiteMart - Bike project database For details on the above, click on the "history" tab of the state page and click on a previous version. If you know of a new link for one of the above items, please let me know. Databases ADDED to project pages: Arizona - Doctor Search (Arizona Medical Board) - ADWR Image Records Database (Water Resources) - AZURITE License Application Query Utility Volunteer Changes - Alabama - Paula Webb taking over from Valerie Glenn. - Maryland - Page is now open for adoption. General Notes - Project volunteers who have not updated their pages since January 2010 are being contacted about their continued participation in the project. - Project pages without volunteers are in the process of being link checked. If you have questions or comments about this project, feel free to contact me at dnlcornwall@alaska.net Continue reading
Pinboard report on link rot
A new report on link rot on the blog of the social bookmarking service Pinboard:
- Remembrance of Links Past, by Maciej Ceglowski, Pinboard Blog (May 26, 2011).