Introducing The Source
The myths and fallacies of digital photographs and their preservation (Note: PDF)
From the DigitalPreservationEurope(DPE) website
Digital photographs offer fascinating new possibilities and seem to be easier to store and preserve for the future than their analog counterpart, promising incredibly valuable, massive photo archives available at your fingertips. However, securely storing massive amounts of data, as well as ensuring that the file formats produced by professional cameras can be read in the near and longterm future, is a significant endeavour. This briefing paper reviews some of the core challenges in preserving digital photographs to make sure that the value of a digital photo archive remains and grows for the benefit of the photographer.
Will E-Book Anti-Piracy Technology Hurt Readers?
From the National Public Radio (NPR) website
As the book industry attempts to move from hardbacks to downloads, booksellers and publishers are struggling to prevent readers from pirating eBooks the way some music fans pirate music.
On the front line of that effort is digital rights management technology, or DRM, that is embedded into eBook files. DRM lets the companies control how copies can be made of eBooks and which devices can display them. But some users say DRM also prevents them from reading the eBooks they’ve bought.
Internet Typology: The Mobile Difference
From the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project website
Cast a glance at any coffee shop, train station or airport boarding gate, and it is easy to see that mobile access to the internet is taking root in our society. Open laptops or furrowed brows staring at palm-sized screens are evidence of how routinely information is exchanged on wireless networks. But the incidence of such activity is only one dimension of this phenomenon. Not everyone has the wherewithal to engage with “always present” connectivity and, while some may love it, others may only dip their toes in the wireless water and not go deeper. Until now, it has not been clear how mobile access interacts with traditional wireline online behaviour. Does availability of mobile access crowd out desktop access? Does it draw some users further into digital lifestyles?
How People Read Books Online: Mining and Visualizing Web Logs for Use Information (Note: PDF)
From the Human-Computer Interaction Lab website
This paper explores how people read books online. Instead of observing individuals, we analyse usage of an online digital library of children’s books (the International Children’s Digital Library). We go beyond typical webpage-centric analysis to focus on book reading in an attempt to understand how people read books from websites. We propose a definition of reading a book (in comparison to others who visit the website), and report a number of observations about the use of the library in question.
Friending Libraries: Why libraries can become nodes in people’s social networks
From the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project website
Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, recently discussed Pew Internet’s latest findings and why they suggest that libraries can play a role in people’s social networks in the future. He described the reasons that people rely more and more on their social networks as they share ideas, learn, solve problems, and seek social support. And he explored how libraries can act as “nodes” in people’s networks.
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