Introducing The Source
The Design and Implementation of an Ingest Function to a Digital Archive
From the D-Lib Magazine website
The Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) commissioned a digital archive in late 2005. During the design and implementation of this digital archive, considerable attention was paid to the ingest function that accessions digital objects into the archive. In particular, the archive was designed to process large transfers, and particular care was taken to support archivists in managing the transfer and handling the inevitable errors. In this article we describe the design of the ingest function, and the lessons we have learnt about ingest.
The Future of Reading
From the Newsweek website
Amazon's Jeff Bezos has already built a better bookstore. Now he believes he can improve upon one of humankind's most divine creations, the book itself, which, he says "just turns out to be an incredible device."
Good Terms - improving commercial-noncommercial partnerships for mass digitization: a report prepared by Intelligent Television for RLG Programs, OCLC Programs and Research
From the D-Lib Magazine website
Libraries have been digitising portions of their collections for more than twenty years, but recent opportunities to work with private partners, such as Google, Microsoft, and others, on mass digitisation has opened up possibilities that were unimaginable just a few years ago. Private funding, commercially developed technology, and market-oriented sensibilities together may generate larger aggregations of digitised books far sooner than the library community had dreamed possible. There are many efforts underway to assess various aspects of these partnerships; this paper focuses on the terms in mass digitisation agreements that affect research-community-centred outcomes.
The Power of Information: an independent review by Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg (2007) (Note: PDF)
From the Cabinet Office, UK, website
This is an unusual review in that it is a story of opportunities rather than problems. It takes a practical look at the use and development of citizen and state-generated information in the UK. The driver is the emergence of online tools that allow people to use, re-use and create information in new ways and is the first review to explore the role of government in helping to maximise the benefits for citizens from this new pattern of information creation and use.
See also the Government’s Response to "The Power of Information: an independent review" by Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg (2007) (Note: PDF)
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