Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 McCown, Kulovits & Rauber	Report on the First International Workshop on Innovation in Digital Preservation (InDP 2009) The workshop featured 6 presentations on non-traditional methods of digital preservation (DP) and concluded with an open discussion of where the DP field was headed and where it had possibly gone astray.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 Frank Shipman	Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity 2009 This year's conference included a discussion of the challenges for storytelling in visual or link-based media and presentations on topics spanning automatically constructed visualizations to studies of human-authored visualizations.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 Carol Minton Morris	Doing So Much More The Fourth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR09) featured discussion on the global registries initiative, author identification in scholarly repositories, and fedora repositories.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 Giglia & Galimberti	ELPUB 2009 - Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies In the three-day event, 40 speakers from each of the five continents presented papers on Open Access, digital preservation, and scholarly communication processes and quality control.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 van Deventer & Pienaar	Report on the 2nd African Digital Scholarship and Curation Conference This conference sought to identify opportunities, strategies and examples for new forms of research and scholarship, and ideas for management of digital content by academics, researchers, scientists, and information professionals.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 Gretchen Gueguen	Joyner Library Digital Collections The Joyner Library Digital Collections home page maximizes browsing potential, offers selected featured items, a small subject cloud, and links to each collection, as well as provides a basic repository keyword search.
D-Lib August 2009 Tanner et al.	Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive
D-Lib August 2009 Michael Ashenfelder	21st Century Shipping: Network Data Transfer to the Library of Congress While network data transfer has not completely replaced shipping data on hardware storage media to the Library of Congress, it is gradually becoming the preferred method.
D-Lib August 2009 Lourdi et al.	Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile The research reveals the complexity of mapping metadata schemas to ontologies and resolves particular difficulties by presenting the crosswalk between Dublin Core Collections Application Profile and CIDOC/CRM.
D-Lib August 2009	Report on the 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Austin, Texas June 15-19, 2009 Description of sessions, tutorials, and links to resources are provided.
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