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It’s always wonderful to know that researchers are using the UF Digital Collections (UFDC) in their research, and it’s particularly nice to see how the UFDC can become part of and can facilitate research. Most recently, an image from UFDC appeared in Stowe: in Her Own Time, edited by Susan Belasco, which was recently published by the University of Iowa Press. The image from UFDC is from the September 1869 issue of Fun Magazine and it provides an illustration for page 183 of Stowe: in Her Own Time, in the section “Rose Terry Cooke, [Stowe and the Lady Byron Controversy, 1869-1870]. UFDC regularly receives inquiriesRead More →

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Applications are invited for participation in a new series of advanced text encoding seminars, sponsored by the Brown University Women Writers Project with generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These seminars assume a basic familiarity with TEI, and provide an opportunity to explore specific encoding topics in more detail, in a collaborative workshop setting. Each seminar will focus on one of two topics: 1. Manuscript encoding: focusing on the detailed challenges of encoding manuscript materials, including editorial, transcriptional, and interpretive issues and the methods of representing these in TEI markup. 2. Contextual information: focusing on TEI methods for formalizing and representing informationRead More →

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Victoria University of Wellington has announced the establishment of a targeted PhD scholarship in the broad area of digital preservation: Future Memory at Risk: Digital Preservation and Cultural Heritage The creation of a national digital memory poses fundamental challenges for cultural heritage institutions. Our libraries, archives and museums are searching for new ways to demonstrate their relevance in the digital world, but they are uncertain of the boundaries of their responsibilities which were established in a pre-digital age. Our future access to a trustworthy and meaningful national memory requires these institutions to identify, preserve and make accessible significant digital artefacts of society and also toRead More →

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The American Historical Association has a recent blog post over the problems caused by the lack of access to certain newspapers during transition from “Paper of Record” to Google’s news archives. The blog post notes: Regrettably, this proves yet again Roy Rosenzweig’s warning to the profession six years ago about the “the fragility of evidence in the digital era.” While it may be beyond our capacity to adjust copyright laws and the behavior of large corporations (however well meaning), as a profession we can and perhaps should develop new habits for working with digital materials—by copying down information when we see it online, and notRead More →

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The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) has a lesson plan competition to develop lesson plans and educational resources that connect the wonderful primary resources in dLOC directly to classrooms. Submissions for the lesson plan competition are due April 20, so there’s still time to get submissions in! Full details are on the dLOC website, but some additional information is below for convenience. Teaching US and World History with Caribbean Primary Resources: A Lesson Plan Competition Spring, 2009 Join us in our mission to promote Caribbean studies in K-12 education. The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is working with diverse partners to provide free,Read More →

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UFDC continues to make improvements and UFDC now supports in-page PDF views. While UFDC has always supported PDFs as downloads, but the new PDF in page display follows our project goals of housing as much data as possible in as many ways as possible provided they meet user needs and can be added/extended without increasing difficulty in adding other enhancements. UFDC’s new embedded PDF view can be seen with this item and any of the 26,000 PDFs already online in UFDC. The goal is for all items in UFDC and for all of UFDC to be modular and sliceable– to see everything in as manyRead More →

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In: flickr, LibraryofCongress, LOC, video, web 2.0, youtube

The Library of Congress has announced that they’re now loading videos to YouTube. They’ve already loaded a ton of videos and they plan to load many more, seeing YouTube as a parallel to their successful and ongoing Flickr project. Check out their wonderful and ever-increasing number of videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryOfCongress. Everyone benefits from greater access and greater opportunities for serendipity. Imagine all the people who will be browsing or searching YouTube for one video and finding others from the Library of Congress! This is a great learning, teaching, and sharing opportunity and that’s also why the UF Libraries also have YouTube and Flickr accounts. EvenRead More →

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With the upcoming release of Google Voice for everyone, extending from current Grandcentral users to include new users, transcribing audio could soon become a lot less difficult. In light of the potential for increased ease, people may soon be even more interested in conducting  oral histories. For those looking for information on how to conduct oral histories, Mark Greenberg at the University of South Florida has developed a number of great resources that are all conveniently organized together and printable from here.Read More →