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• RLG Partners Among Early Grid Services Adopters (Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:55:32 -0700)
  At the prompting of my colleague Constance Malpas, I pulled the list of current users of OCLC Grid Services [PDF] to see how many RLG Partner institutions have already signed up. I found 15 — some of whom are already heavy users such as the University of Michigan. I was gratified to see a mix of [...]
• EAD tools project (Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:08:20 -0700)
  Last week, I wrote about the backlogs project. Thanks to those who contacted me with suggestions and pointers. I think I’m close to having a fully populated working group, and I’m excited by the institutions and projects that will be represented. The next project I’d like to tell you about is the EAD tools project. Have [...]
• The repository that isn?t there (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:39 -0700)
  Several European countries have moved in the direction of a national architecture for research information management. They do this for several reasons. One is because of the need to have in place efficient means of representing research performance to their governments, in exchange for government-provided research funding. Another is to make their research visible in [...]
• ?Backlog? survey project (Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:36:04 -0700)
  A few days ago, I said we’d write a little about each of our new projects in the archives and special collections program. The first one I’ll talk about is the Assess Archival Backlog Survey Tools Project. The Greene-Meissner / “More Product, Less Process” report has caused archival institutions to look at backlogs differently. With [...]
• The need for ?copyright evidence? (Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:23:10 -0700)
  Love it or hate it, the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 died in the US House of Representatives this week. The bill will not come up for discussions until later, possibly after the general elections in November (and I think likely not until the next Congress, the way things are going.) This is [...]
• New program, archives and special collections (Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:43:15 -0700)
  We’ve had a lot going on here, in the archives and special collections department. Some of this has gone out through other channels, but I don’t believe this has gone out on the blog. We’ve announced a new program of work around “effectively disclosing archives and special collections.” There are seven new projects in the program [...]
• Beyond the Silos of the LAMs (Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:24:56 -0700)
  The last couple of weeks have been busy and gratifying for the team working on library, archive and museum convergence issues. We?ve now published our final report capping a year-long investigation into LAMs in a campus environment ? you?ll find it here (.pdf: 334K/59 pp). We tried out the title ?Beyond the Silos of the [...]
• What could be more special? (Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:09:13 -0700)
  I’ve just read the minutes from a recent meeting of the Lot 49 group, which was formed to address issues related to moving image digitization. [Here’s a link to notes about the inaugural meeting in July 2007.] The need to be in Dublin, OH last week precluded my being there, but reading [...]
• The future of museums - the massively multiplayer forecast (Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:04:57 -0700)
  I’ve just received an announcement from AAM about a Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Game they’ll use to shape our thinking about the museum of the future. (If you’re a member of AAM, no doubt you’ve received this message as well.) Here’s a copy-and-paste from the announcement: Players are encouraged to ?imagine out loud? how their families, their [...]
• WorldCat and the iPhone (Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:07:39 -0700)
  My long-time colleague, Bruce Washburn, won’t brag about it but I will. He took advantage of the WorldCat Search API to build a very nice WorldCat app for the iPhone. He’s talked about (and Lorcan noted) how designing for mobile devices is like writing a haiku - you have to figure out the essence and [...]