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British Library in £10 million programme to save world's endangered archives
The Endangered Archives Programme is the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the world and will be administered by the British Library' s archives team in conjunction with a panel of international experts. The programme will be formally launched in the autumn and the first grants are expected to be made next year. Initial funding will enable the programme to run for about eight years, but it is hoped that this can be extended with the help of other beneficiaries.
The Programme is a response to world-wide threats to historical and cultural records from wars, natural disasters, ignorance and neglect. Its aim is to preserve forever our knowledge of vital aspects of human society and activity. Grants will be used to help identify endangered records and re-locate them in institutional archives in the region to which they relate. The original material will therefore not be removed from its cultural home. However, such records will also be copied and the copies made universally available. A master archives of such copies will be maintained at the British Library, which will be able to supply copies to other libraries and research centres throughout the world.
Director of Scholarship and Collections at the British Library, Dr Clive Field, said: " This is an immensely exciting initiative which will unquestionably have a far-reaching and long-term impact on international research and scholarship. As a repository of world knowledge, through our universal collections and professional expertise, the British Library is proud and delighted to have been invited to house, administer and lead the programme. We congratulate the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund on its foresight in providing the funding, from which generations of scholars and archivists will benefit." [...]
http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/news/#4
The Endangered Archives Programme is the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the world and will be administered by the British Library' s archives team in conjunction with a panel of international experts. The programme will be formally launched in the autumn and the first grants are expected to be made next year. Initial funding will enable the programme to run for about eight years, but it is hoped that this can be extended with the help of other beneficiaries.
The Programme is a response to world-wide threats to historical and cultural records from wars, natural disasters, ignorance and neglect. Its aim is to preserve forever our knowledge of vital aspects of human society and activity. Grants will be used to help identify endangered records and re-locate them in institutional archives in the region to which they relate. The original material will therefore not be removed from its cultural home. However, such records will also be copied and the copies made universally available. A master archives of such copies will be maintained at the British Library, which will be able to supply copies to other libraries and research centres throughout the world.
Director of Scholarship and Collections at the British Library, Dr Clive Field, said: " This is an immensely exciting initiative which will unquestionably have a far-reaching and long-term impact on international research and scholarship. As a repository of world knowledge, through our universal collections and professional expertise, the British Library is proud and delighted to have been invited to house, administer and lead the programme. We congratulate the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund on its foresight in providing the funding, from which generations of scholars and archivists will benefit." [...]
http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/news/#4
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 15. April 2004, 22:06 - Rubrik: English Corner
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KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 15. April 2004, 04:43 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://beeldbank.nationaalarchief.nl/
500,000 pictures taken between 1880 and 1990 are now in a searchable Dutch National Archive Image Bank. If you speak enough Dutch to navigate the site, there's quite a lot of history here.
Via Creative Commons Weblog
500,000 pictures taken between 1880 and 1990 are now in a searchable Dutch National Archive Image Bank. If you speak enough Dutch to navigate the site, there's quite a lot of history here.
Via Creative Commons Weblog
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 15. April 2004, 04:37 - Rubrik: English Corner
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The April issue of PLoS Biology contains correspondence entitled Avoiding URL Reference Degradation in Scientific Publications. The correspondence is about possible use of the Internet Archive as a way to archive a Web site an author has cited. The response from PLoS points out some drawbacks to this approach, but encourages "further input on this issue from the scientific and medical community".
Via Open Access News
Via Open Access News
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 13. April 2004, 21:20 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://statelibrary.vic.gov.au/miscpics/0/0/8/doc/mp008780.shtml
Have a look at a nice historical easter picture from 1896, found at
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
Have a look at a nice historical easter picture from 1896, found at
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
KlausGraf - am Samstag, 10. April 2004, 16:19 - Rubrik: English Corner
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The Management of International Criminal Justice Records: The Case of Rwandan Tribunal (pp. 1 - 10)
Tom A. Adami
Abstract
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has been widely criticised for the slow pace of justice and for mismanagement. On the contrary, much has been achieved in an African context to assist in achieving peace and reconciliation for the people of Rwanda. The information management programme of the ICTR has developed some unique and innovative ways of dealing with its large and varied collection of judicial records. There is much to be proud of in the achievements of the Records and Archives Unit of ICTR. This paper aims to share with others the experience of ICTR in the management of large and varied judicial records.
(African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: 2003 13 (1): 1-10) No full-text free online.
Found via http://www.ajol.info
Tom A. Adami
Abstract
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has been widely criticised for the slow pace of justice and for mismanagement. On the contrary, much has been achieved in an African context to assist in achieving peace and reconciliation for the people of Rwanda. The information management programme of the ICTR has developed some unique and innovative ways of dealing with its large and varied collection of judicial records. There is much to be proud of in the achievements of the Records and Archives Unit of ICTR. This paper aims to share with others the experience of ICTR in the management of large and varied judicial records.
(African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science: 2003 13 (1): 1-10) No full-text free online.
Found via http://www.ajol.info
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 6. April 2004, 19:52 - Rubrik: English Corner
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H.M. Gladney, digital preservation iconoclast and consultant, announced to DIGLIB (April 1, 2004) that his self-published periodical Digital Document Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1 (First Quarter 2004) is available at
http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_3_1.htm
From: Ten Thousand Year Blog
http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/index.php?p=457
http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/ddq_3_1.htm
From: Ten Thousand Year Blog
http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress/index.php?p=457
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 6. April 2004, 18:40 - Rubrik: English Corner
A little debate (in German) on the prometheus project
http://www.prometheus-bildarchiv.de/
and Open Access for heritage collections (in German) can be found at the mailing list H-MUSEUM:
Critical Comment (by Klaus Graf) on a prometheus appeal to the museums, archives etc. to join prometheus
Response of Holger Simon: prometheus supports Open Access for heritage collections.
http://www.prometheus-bildarchiv.de/
and Open Access for heritage collections (in German) can be found at the mailing list H-MUSEUM:
Critical Comment (by Klaus Graf) on a prometheus appeal to the museums, archives etc. to join prometheus
Response of Holger Simon: prometheus supports Open Access for heritage collections.
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 30. März 2004, 16:21 - Rubrik: English Corner
http://www.culturalheritage.net/
A search engine about the conservation of cultural heritage, restoration and maintenance of the architecture, preservation of the urban landscap
A search engine about the conservation of cultural heritage, restoration and maintenance of the architecture, preservation of the urban landscap
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 30. März 2004, 15:46 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.statearchivists.org/issues/publ-rec-auctions.htm
Statement Regarding the Sale of Historical Public Records on eBay
Council of State Historical Records Coordinators
National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators Society of American Archivists
February 2004
Statement Regarding the Sale of Historical Public Records on eBay
Council of State Historical Records Coordinators
National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators Society of American Archivists
February 2004
KlausGraf - am Dienstag, 30. März 2004, 15:01 - Rubrik: English Corner
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