Introducing The Source
Considerations for the Preservation of Blogs (Note: PDF)From the DigitalPreservationEurope(DPE) website
Blogs, it seems, are everywhere these days, but what about the next day (and the next and the next ...). Opinions vary on whether or not blogs merit preservation beyond the actions of a blog’s respective authors. This briefing paper does not contribute to that dialogue. Rather, it provides an overview of issues to be considered by organizations planning blog preservation programs. Blogs are the product of a network of players, including blog authors, service providers, and readers. Discussed here are some key attributes of blogs, and the characteristics and behaviours of these players, which may impact preservation activities.
Employment in the Cultural Sector (Note: PDF)
From the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage website
"Employment in the Cultural Sector" is one report in a series produced by the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage, as part of the Cultural Statistics Programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the range and quality of statistical information about the cultural sector - for the development of cultural policy by both central and local government, for monitoring the sector’s progress and performance, and for future planning.
The Library Web Site of the Future
From the Inside Higher Ed website
Academic librarians want their Web sites to attract faculty and students the way flowers invite insects for a visit. The urge to plunge into the cornucopia of electronic riches that lies waiting in the library’s highly organized portal should be irresistible. Exclusive research databases, costly electronic journals and digital books and treasures lay in wait for those who need and are willing to seek them out.It should be a scholar’s dream, but there’s trouble in paradise. In August 2008 the Ithaka Group released a report, "Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education" on the relationship between faculty members and their libraries’ electronic resources. As librarians already knew well, Ithaka’s report showed that faculty perceived the library’s collective electronic resources, particularly in business, science and technology, as far more critical to scholarship than print collections are. But there is a significant disconnect when it comes to faculty use of the library’s website as a gateway, or portal, to access that wealth of electronic content.
Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics (Note: PDF)
From the Center for Social Media website
This white paper lays out an expanded vision for “public media 2.0” that places engaged publics at its core, showcasing innovative experiments from its “first two minutes,” and revealing related trends, stakeholders, and policies. Public media 2.0 may look and function differently, but it will share the same goals as the projects that preceded it: educating, informing, and mobilizing its users.
7 Things You Should Know About QR Codes (Note: PDF)
From the Educause website
QR codes are two-dimensional bar codes that can contain any alpha-numeric text and that often feature URLs that direct users to sites where they can learn about an object or place (a practice known as “mobile tagging”). Decoding software on tools such as camera phones interprets the codes, which are increasingly found in places such as product labels, billboards, and buildings, inviting passers-by to pull out their mobile phones and uncover the encoded information. QR codes link the physical world with the virtual by providing on-the-spot access to descriptive language and online resources for objects and locations. In this way, the codes support experiential learning, bringing scholarship out of the classroom and into physical experience. The greatest importance of QR codes could lie not in their specific use but in the opportunities they offer for moving away from keyboards as input devices in learning environments.
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