December eSpectra and RLG DigiNews available

Subject: December eSpectra and RLG DigiNews available
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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:02:14 -0500

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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:02:14 -0500
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Subject: December eSpectra and RLG DigiNews available

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
December 17, 2001

              December 2001 issue of RLG DigiNews now available
                    http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

                  December 2001 Issue of eSpectra Available
           -the online news portal of the Museum Computer Network
                       http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/

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              December 2001 issue of RLG DigiNews now available
                      http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

>Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 06:55:56 +0000
>From: Nancy Elkington <Nancy_Elkington@NOTES.RLG.ORG>
>Subject: RLG DigiNews December 2001 issue now available

  The December 2001 issue includes:

  Volume 5, Number 6

  Editor's Interview:
     Collaboration of RLG/OCLC With Digital Archiving Initiatives,
       an Interview with Robin Dale and Meg Bellinger
  Feature Article
     Emulation vs. Migration: Do Users Care?, by Margaret Hedstrom
       and Clifford Lampe
  Highlighted Web Site - eXtensible Name Service
  FAQ - Image Search Engines

  RLG DigiNews is a bimonthly web-based newsletter intended to:

   * Focus on issues of particular interest and value to managers of
      digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale.
   * Provide filtered guidance and pointers to relevant projects to
      improve our awareness of evolving practices in image conversion
      and digital preservation.
   * Announce publications (in any form) that will help staff attain a
      deeper understanding of digital issues.

Mirror sites: http://www.rlg.ac.uk/preserv/diginews/ (from UK Janet sites) or
http://www.ohio.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ (from most European sites)

  For more information about RLG or RLG's preservation community,
  please contact Robin Dale (Robin.Dale@notes.rlg.org).

  Robin L. Dale
  RLG Member Programs & Initiatives
  1200 Villa Street
  Mountain View, CA 94041-1100

  Ph: +1-650-691-2238
  Fax: +1-650-964-0943
  Email: Robin.Dale@notes.rlg.org

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                December 2001 Issue of eSpectra Available
            -the online news portal of the Museum Computer Network
                       http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/

The latest issue of this very useful compendium of news and
information should not be missed. Below the announcement I include a
few representative items.

David Green
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>Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:52:32 -0500
>To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
>From: Leslie Johnston <johnston@gsd.harvard.edu>
>Subject: December 2001 Issue of eSpectra
>
>The December 2001 issue of eSpectra is now available. eSpectra, the
>online news portal from the Museum Computer Network, is updated
>monthly and includes time-sensitive information like
>event/conference announcements and job postings, as well as short
>features and late-breaking announcements. It is available at:
>http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/
>
>Cultural Heritage Organizations: If your institution already has a
>page or a site devoted to a technology project that the community
>might be interested in, submit the URL to me for the community
>projects page on eSpectra. Please submit material directly to me at
><johnston@gsd.harvard.edu>.
>
>Leslie Johnston
>Head of Instructional Technology and LIS, Harvard Design School
>Editor, eSpectra, cultural heritage information management portal,
> and Spectra, MCN's community awareness publication
>johnston@gsd.harvard.edu
>http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/

* Digging Deep Digitally
The field of archaeology will receive a big boost from 3D computer
modeling techniques. Thanks to a $2 million grant from the National
Science Foundation, researchers at Columbia University are building
digital tools that will enable archaeologists to examine the details
of sites without having to dig or damage structures. The new 3D
modeling techniques will also allow archaeologists to take virtual
tours of sites. The digital tools include a mobile robot equipped
with a laser scanner for taking high-detail shots aboveground, and a
radar sensor for taking shots deep underground. A 3D model of sites
can be produced once the data is scanned into a computer. Initial
tests already have been completed, but there are plans to test the
digital tools at the Amheida site in the Dakhla Oasis, in the western
desert of Egypt, and to put the computerized data of the site online.
Read the Information Week article at:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011026S0008

and the New York Times article (requires site registration) at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/technology/circuits/08NEXT.html

* Report Released on ABC Metadata Model
Authors Carl Lagoze and Jane Hunter recently released a paper
describing the latest version of the ABC metadata model, developed
within the Harmony international digital library project to provide a
common conceptual framework with which to ease interoperability among
metadata vocabularies from different domains.
http://research.nii.ac.jp/~oyama/dc2001/proceedings/product/paper-26.pdf

* Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonne
The National Gallery of Art presents the Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic
Editions Limited) online catalogue raisonne, a listing of prints
produced at this Los Angeles studio from 1966 through 1996.
http://www.nga.gov/gemini/

* High Speed History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is the first
independent museum to connect the high-speed research and education
networks of Internet2."The connection to Internet2 will expand the
museum's computing resources and therefore its research
capabilities," Museum provost Michael Novaceck said in a statement.
"The AMNH is uniquely poised both to generate scientific advances
from this new technology and to communicate these advances to
scientists, researchers, students and the public around the
world."Novaceck said that fields such as comparative genomics,
astrophysics, systematics, biodiversity sciences and geology would
all benefit from the connection.

Reported in Wired News, 12/3/2001

* Misguided Guidelines for Interpreting Fair Use
In an article discussing the evolution of "fair use" guidelines that
have evolved in the wake of the Copyright Act of 1976, author Kenneth
Crews notes that none of the guidelines has ever had the force of law
to back it up, and, in fact, most of the guidelines bear little
relationship to the law of fair use.
Read the Ohio State Law Journal article at:
http://www.osu.edu/units/law/LawJournal/crews.htm

* International Resources from the Library of Congress
This site acts as a gateway to a number of Library of Congress (LOC)
international resources.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/

* The Canadian West
 From the National Archives of Canada, this Web exhibition includes
over 200 pictures, maps, and documents on European exploration and
settlement of Western Canada, from the 1600s to 1930.
http://www.archives.ca/05/0529/052901_e.html

* Cultural Materials from RLG - Trial Subscriptions
Effective 1 November 2001, free one-month trial subscriptions to the
new RLG Cultural Materials service are available. RLG Cultural
Materials brings together rich digital collections from an
international alliance of museums, libraries and archives, and
provides a powerful, user-friendly new interface to support discovery
and learning. http://www.rlg.org/culturalres/

Information about a free one-month trial:
http://www.rlg.org/agreements/trialrcm.html

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Date:         Sat, 15 Dec 2001 06:55:56 +0000

From: Nancy Elkington <Nancy_Elkington@NOTES.RLG.ORG>

Subject:      RLG DigiNews December 2001 issue now available

Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:52:32 -0500

To: mcn-l@mcn.edu

From: Leslie Johnston <johnston@gsd.harvard.edu>

Subject: December 2001 Issue of eSpectra

The December 2001 issue of eSpectra is now available. eSpectra, the online news portal from the Museum Computer Network, is updated monthly and includes time-sensitive information like event/conference announcements and job postings, as well as short features and late-breaking announcements. It is available at: http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/

Cultural Heritage Organizations:  If your institution already has a page or a site devoted to a technology project that the community might be interested in, submit the URL to me for the community projects page on eSpectra. Please submit material directly to me at <johnston@gsd.harvard.edu>.

Leslie Johnston

Head of Instructional Technology and LIS, Harvard Design School

Editor, eSpectra, cultural heritage information management portal,

 and Spectra, MCN's community awareness publication

johnston@gsd.harvard.edu

http://www.mcn.edu/espectra/

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