Peter Kurilecz to "Archives"

Google now lets you create your own Google maps that you can either
keep private or expose to their search engines. the links below will
take you to two maps that I have created. For those who are involved
with local history this could be real fun

http://shrinkster.com/o66

for this next one scroll down to the bottom of the page because my
markers now extend to a second page. note that on the second page I
have used one of the tools to define historic preservation district
boundaries

http://shrinkster.com/o65

http://openaccess.wetpaint.com/

Open Access Wiki wants to become the place to be to read about and discuss open access in scientific communities.

My comment: Forget it if you are using a CC-BY-SA-NC 2.5 license!

I have discussed this at:
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3493112/

Please note that due the commercial Google Ads of the Delft wiki it is impossible for it to use the own contents!

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/2007/04/msg00062.html

Comments by Jack Kessler.

Countless e-mails to and from many key White House staffers have been deleted -- lost to history and placed out of reach of congressional subpoenas -- due to a brazen violation of internal White House policy that was allowed to continue for more than six years, the White House acknowledged yesterday.

Read more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/04/12/BL2007041200941.html

The White House said Wednesday that it may have lost what could amount to thousands of messages sent through a private e-mail system used by political guru Karl Rove and at least 50 other top officials, an admission that stirred anger and dismay among congressional investigators.

Read more:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-emails12apr12,0,4800585.story?coll=la-home-headlines

http://www.theolympian.com/112/story/80244.html

More than 25,000 public records are online.

See e.g. the minutes of 1869:
https://web.ci.tumwater.wa.us/weblink/DocView.aspx?id=6023

http://nl.ijs.si/e-zrc/bs/index-en.html

The Freising Manuscripts are the earliest document of Slovenian culture. They are the earliest preserved writings in Slovenian as well as the earliest Slavic texts, written in the Latin alphabet.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freising_manuscripts

From Archives-L:

Like “RAIN” I will begin posting the Table of Contents of historical, archival, library, genealogical, (etc.) journals as they arrive. My plan is to post them the same day that I receive them as a way to help us to keep current with what is being published. I’ve been an archivist/librarian for over 30 years and as a life member of the Association for the Bibliography of History I guess that I am a bibliographer at heart. I receive more than 200 journals, from all 50 states so it should be diverse coverage.

Onward,

Tom


Florida Historical Quarterly (Winter 2007)

http://genlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/04/florida-historical-quarterly.html


Michigan History (March/April 2007)

http://genlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/04/michigan-new-content.html


Missouri Historical Review (April 2007):

http://genlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/04/missouri-new-content.html


Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly (March 2007)

http://genlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/04/ohio-new-content.html


Rhode Island Roots (March 2007)

http://genlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/04/keeping-current-journal-articles-of.html


South Dakota Genealogical Society Quarterly (April 2007)

http://genlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/04/south-dakota-new-content.html

http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr07/Grogg_Ashmore.shtml

Librarians participating in Google Book Search scanning can easily add links on their libraries’ Web pages to the Google Book Search Web site [http://books.google.com] and call it a day. However, with the number of aforementioned in-house digitization projects, most librarians find great potential for using the copies they receive from Google in conjunction with existing library resources and newly created partnerships. And the future may see even nonmembers of the Google Library Party doing the same thing. As Megan Lamb, of Google Corporate Communications, explains “We’ve [Google] already done significant engineering work in ensuring that our URLs are persistent and any organization can link to them.”

For example, Popham of Oxford explains the necessity for new partnerships to cope with the enormity of the Google project: “The sheer scale of our endeavor with Google vastly overshadows any previous [digitization] activity and will require additional preservation infrastructure, which we are developing in partnership with Sun Microsystems, as part of the establishment of a Sun Center of Excellence here in Oxford.” While all of the participating Google Book Search libraries have digitization projects in existence, few, if any, approach the scale of the Google project. Jennifer Colvin, strategic communications manager, UC Office of the President, stated, “The university libraries have been doing other digitization projects for years, but nothing nearly on the scale of what we are doing with the OCA [Open Content Alliance] and with Google, so that’s one of the reasons we are so excited about our partnerships with those organizations.”

Such an increase in scale means that some library administrators are still weighing options about how to use their library digital copies. In August 2006, Barbara Quint reported in an Information Today, Inc. NewsBreak (“Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California”) that “plans as to what UC intends to do with its digital copies are still in the works. However, public domain material will have free and unfettered full-text access throughout the system, including links to the online Melvyl Catalog. Books still in copyright will only be accessible in keeping with copyright law”
[http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=17375]. According to Colvin, UC has organized a “system-wide group with representatives from across the UC system to try to figure out what the next step is going to be and how we can possibly integrate those digital books in with our collection.” According to Flecker, Harvard is not using the data at this point: “Future uses are under discussion, but no concrete plans are in place.” While no concrete plans may be in place, Harvard is enthusiastic about the possibilities the mass digitization offers. Flecker noted, “We are excited about the possibility of making the collection of scanned books available in the future for text mining, which we believe will open up powerful new ways of doing research.”

NYPL’s Ferriero envisions a future in which patrons conduct searches in its Digital Gallery and receive not only images from across the research libraries, but also the text that provides necessary context and avenues for further research. While NYPL is still making plans for how it will use its digital copies (in December, it just finished the Google pilot of 10,000 volumes and made arrangements to continue the relationship), it is carefully watching how other Google partners are putting their digital copies to work for them. In fact, the Google Library partners meet twice a year to take advantage of the lessons learned from each of their very individual ventures.

Like Harvard and the NYPL, Oxford continues to explore how best to use its digital copies. When asked to describe how his library currently uses and/or plans to use digital copies received from Google, Popham replied, “At the moment, we are simply planning to archive and preserve our copy of the data generated by our joint project with Google.” Popham went on to say that Oxford will link from its catalog record to the images hosted at Google [http://books.google.com]. Finally, Popham explained, “The scale and scope of this project is such that we are only just beginning to consider some of the possibilities that this work may enable.”

As one of the most recent of Google library partners, signing on in November 2006, UVA is understandably still considering how to use its digital copies. When asked if UVA was concentrating on specific subject areas, Wittenborg said, “We gave Google a lot of data on what we think our special strengths are, but they said essentially all 5.1 million volumes are under consideration still by them.” Wittenborg went on to say, “They [Google and library partners] have a summit meeting of the [library] partners in January [2007] at Google, and so I think by then, if not before, we’ll know. We are very, very strong in American literature and American history, but also in Buddhism and other things, so it’s pretty much they get to choose.” When asked if UVA was choosing to do both public domain and in-copyright materials, Wittenborg replied, “Absolutely. It was important for us to want to do the whole thing.” Wittenborg emphasized the opportunity this presents for UVA: “… it’s an open playing field. We know we’ll be experimenting with software tools and delivery services, and our primary goal is to support research, teaching, and learning here at UVA. But I think that once we suddenly get content, we will find out there are all kinds of things we can do. I think there will be parts of the content that we will mark up for added value, but we just don’t know yet.”

UW-Madison, another new member of this exclusive club, has particular plans for organizing and providing access to the library’s digital copies of Google-scanned material. Van Gemert stated: “Our intention is to have material searchable through our OPAC and our intention is to collaborate with other CIC [Committee on Institutional Cooperation] institutions on a shared digital repository.” The CIC is a consortium of 12 major research universities, including those from the Big Ten athletic conference, along with the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. As mentioned earlier, UW-Madison also intends to leverage its investment in current digitization projects and, through its partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society and Google, to create a larger, more comprehensive digital collection. Van Gemert explained, “Our primary focus is to have digitized materials in the public domain — state and federal government documents, other historical documents.” While UW-Madison has a clear focus, it has yet to begin scanning; the operational side of its project with Google will begin in March 2007.

In addition to UW-Madison, the CIC group also includes UM, which, to date, has one of the most developed systems for providing access to its Google scanned materials — MBooks. MBooks allows patrons to discover books through full-text searching in its online catalog, Mirlyn. Once a title is identified, a patron can click on a link, which takes them to a “page turner” interface that allows them to navigate the book, print individual pages, and enlarge and rotate the page image as well as to search within that individual title. The library digital copies delivered to UM are individual pages — mostly 600 dpi TIFF images using ITU G4 compression, although pages with significant illustrations usually appear as 300 dpi JPEG 2000 images. Google also provides an OCR text file to match each page image. The type of image files provided to a library depend on the library’s preferences [http://www.lib.umich.edu/staff/google/public/faq.pdf]. While one cannot print out entire PDF files of a single title from the MBooks interface, the MBooks record does provide links back to the Google Book Search copy.

Because UM is one of the libraries allowing Google to scan in-copyright titles, MBooks provides searching within these titles, as well as information on the number of occurrences and location of terms within an individual title, to assist the user in evaluating the relevance of the item to their research. MBooks currently only houses the titles scanned through Google, but there are plans to add materials from previous in-house digitization efforts to the database as well.

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto is
pleased to announce its latest online collection.

This digital collection features over 2500 of the prints of Wenceslaus
Hollar (1607-1677), a great master of the art of etching. Although the
lion’s share of Hollar’s work was produced in and about his adopted
England, his artistic interest was broad ranging and the site also
includes religious and historical prints, maps, portraits, costumes, and
natural history. As well as the individual etchings, the Fisher Library
boasts some one hundred published works containing original prints made
from Hollar's plates. In an effort to provide the original context for
at least some of Hollar's book illustration, the full text of several of
these works has also been included.

The collection is available at:

http://link.library.utoronto.ca/hollar/

I am counting only three books with full text.

For the scan quality see the following picture.