Originally posted on 2013-05-01 http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/docs/copyrightterm.pdf Accessed 10 March 2013. Reviewed by David M. Brown, Ed.D., MLIS(c), MCHES; MLIS Student Wayne State University; Assistant Professor of Public Health Jackson State University [PDF Full Text] In the ever-changing world of copyright and public domain, the Cornell University Copyright Information Center provides a resource to assist scholars, researchers … Continue reading Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
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Zotero
Originally posted 2013-04-15 http://www.zotero.org/ Accessed 14 March 2013 Reviewed by Amy Nicole Roberson, Trinity University [PDF Full Text] Developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Zotero is a free browser-based tool designed to collect, organize, cite, share, and sync research materials. This review evaluates Zotero using the three notions … Continue reading Zotero
Our Digital World
Originally posted 2013-04-01 http://ourdigitalworld.org Accessed 18 March 2013 Reviewed by Elizabeth Pepper [PDF Full Text] Our Digital World (ODW) is a not-for-profit organization, based in Ontario, Canada. It provides support for libraries, universities and other organizations that maintain digital content for the public. The ODW website contains numerous links to helpful websites that supply information … Continue reading Our Digital World
Grateful Dead Archive Online
Originally posted 2013-03-01 http://www.gdao.org Accessed 31 December 2012. Reviewed by Lori Birrell, University of Rochester [PDF Full Text] Community building and scholarly rigor are the core strengths of the Grateful Dead Archive Online (GDAO), created by the University of California Santa Cruz. GDAO characterizes itself as a socially constructed network that combines a physical archival … Continue reading Grateful Dead Archive Online
DIY History
Originally posted: 2013-02-15 Reviewed by Eric Wiley [PDF Full Text] The DIY History project at University of Iowa[i] may be evaluated against the intellectual framework proposed in John Voss’ plenary address[ii] at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists. Voss' framework consists of asking how the resource tells the story between documents … Continue reading DIY History
Content, Context, and Capacity: A Collaborative Large-Scale Digitization Project on the Long Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina
Date posted: 2013-02-01 http://www2.trln.org/ccc/ Accessed 23 January, 2013. Reviewed by Alexandra A. A. Orchard, SEIU Archivist, Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University [PDF Full Text] Large-scale digitization motivates the Triangle Research Libraries Networks’ (TRLN) Content, Context, and Capacity (CCC) project. The project’s home page expresses two goals. First, CCC … Continue reading Content, Context, and Capacity: A Collaborative Large-Scale Digitization Project on the Long Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina
Mapping Our Anzacs
http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/ Accessed 29 November 2012. Reviewed by Alexandra Orchard, Wayne State University [PDF Full Text] An online archival exhibit that incorporates the three notions set forth in the plenary address given by John Voss during the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists is Mapping Our Anzacs (MOA), created by Australia’s National Archives … Continue reading Mapping Our Anzacs
Bamboo Dirt
Originally posted on 2014-06-02 http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/ Accessed April 13, 2014 Reviewed by Jay Gaidmore, Marian and Alan McLeod Director of Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, The College of William & Mary [PDF Full Text] Digital scholarship has become a buzz word in academia and libraries, and among scholars around the world. Everybody wants to do … Continue reading Bamboo Dirt
dPlan™: The Online Disaster Planning Tool
Originally posted on 2011-01-02 dPlan™ is available for free at http://www.dplan.org. Reviewed by © Gregor Trinkaus-Randall, Preservation Specialist, Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners [PDF Full Text] The concept for an online institutional disaster planning tool emerged from a meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) Preservation Advisory Committee in 2000. The MBLC, established … Continue reading dPlan™: The Online Disaster Planning Tool
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