The Center for Jewish History in New York launched CJH Digital Collections today, an online multimedia catalog of materials documenting Jewish culture and history from across the globe. The catalog, available on the Web at http://digital.cjh.org/, currently contains more than 13,000 unique images, 200 archival finding aids and 40 audio files, most of which are available to the general web public, and is continuing to grow rapidly as the Center and its five Partners continue to take advantage of the benefits that digitization can offer.

Contained within the initial catalog are diverse and eclectic digital materials that represent the unique strengths of each of the Center's five Partners. Examples range from the American Sephardi Federation's collection of French engravings, to the American Jewish Historical Society's Lower East Side Photograph Collection, to the Leo Baeck Institute's Collection of German Decrees from the 16th and 17th Century, to the YIVO Institute's rare Hebrew and Yiddish books and children's books, to the Yeshiva University Museum's Abe Grubère collection of fashion designs from the 1940's and 1950's.



See also:

http://www.jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/books/html/bk_all.htm

Link collection:
http://www.jud.upol.cz/index.php?page=odkazy-uvodem

Help us make decisions for our future!

Please take 10 minutes to complete the survey on Digital Scriptorium,
available at:
http://www.scriptorium.columbia.edu

The Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and Renaissance
manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an
single tool for teaching and scholarly research.

With the completion of the present NEH grant (funding ends 30 June 2007),
and on its 10th birthday, DS will contain the records of the medieval and
Renaissance holdings of some 30 libraries across the United States; the
number of records will stand at ca. 5000, and the images at approx.
25,000. This grant has brought the technology home of DS from one of its
two founding members (the Bancroft Library at the University of
California, Berkeley) to the other founding member (the Rare Book and
Manuscript Library of Columbia University). The move was accompanied by
intense work on the search engine and corresponding sea changes in
flexibility and specificity of searching and in display of the results.

So help us see what's been good, and what needs to be better, and how to
move ahead in our second ten years! Please take the survey; we're
grateful for the assembled assistance of ExLibris subscribers, who know
the rare book field from so many different points of view.

With thanks,
Consuelo Dutschke
Managing Director, Digital Scriptorium
Curator, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University
535 W. 114th Street, New York NY 10027 USA
email: cwd3@columbia.edu

From EXLIBRIS list

My suggestions:

1. Complete manuscripts should be digitized!

2. Stop COPYFRAUD and respect the Public Domain!

Breslauer Urkunde 1417

http://swivel.com/graphs/show/9227397

http://flickr.com/creativecommons/

Wikipedia can only use photos licensed with CC-BY, CC-BY-SA
3,670,015 photos
2,551,347 photos
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6,221,362 photos

http://www.rarebookroom.org/

The "Rare Book Room" site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.

Over the last ten years, a company called "Octavo" embarked on digitally photographing some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries. These books were photographed at very high resolution (in some cases at over 200 megabytes per page).

This site contains all of the books (about 400) that have been digitized to date. These range over a wide variety of topics and rarity. The books are presented so that the viewer can examine all the pages in medium to medium-high resolution.

The new enterprise Co-Action Publishing is dedicated to Open Access (OA) but has a standard Creatice Commons (CC) license which excludes commercial use:

http://www.co-action.net/authors4.html

Science Commons also excludes commercial use when providing its CC addendum:

http://sciencecommons.org/resources/faq/authorsaddendum.html

I have argued several times that there is no reason to exclude commercial use regarding OA documents.

* There is no legitimation to postulate that the exclusion is according the principles of the "Budapest Open Access Initiative" or the "Berlin Declaration".

There are, in the contrary, strong arguments that commercial use is in the intention of these declarations.

* The most influent OA publishers have licenses which include commercial use, i.e. they have CC-BY licenses.

BioMed Central is the publisher of more than 170 OA journals and has a CC-BY license:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/license

All journal content of the "Public Library of Science" (OA flagship) is licensed under CC-BY:
http://www.plos.org/oa/index.html

This is also the case at Hindawi Publishing (60+ journals), e.g.:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/open-access.html

All Digital Peer Publishing NRW licenses include commercial use:
http://www.dipp.nrw.de/lizenzen/faq/allgemeines/faq2

* The disadvantages of CC-NC has been discussed by Erik Moeller (Wimikedia Foundation Board Member) several times, see in this weblog
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3208402/ (in German)

The English version of Erik Moeller's article is dedicated to the PUBLIC DOMAIN:
http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 (from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia) and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

More on digitized newspapers:

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3365545/

http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm

http://bcdlib.tc.ca/links-subjects-newspapers.html

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/serials.html

List of German projects:
http://del.icio.us/tag/digi_zeitungen

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_re_us/national_archives_theft;_ylt=AoiKoVDIukRNJneAPaYpkMcjtBAF

An intern with the National Archives stole about 165 Civil War documents — including the War Department's announcement of President Lincoln's death — and sold most of them on eBay, prosecutors charged Thursday.

The content of Canada's Digital Collections (CDC) is no longer available on this website. CDC operated between 1996 and 2004 to provide young Canadians with skills and experience in preparing digital Canadian content of local, regional and international interest. Recipients of CDC funding and major content providers who require copies of their digital collections for archival purposes or for posting to the Internet should contact Marilyn Cavill at collections@ic.gc.ca . We encourage authors of collections to post their material elsewhere so that the information continues to be available to the public.

This site will close on April 2, 2007.

See also http://web.archive.org/*/collections.ic.gc.ca/