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Tuesday, 24th August 2004

MatDL: Integrating Digital Libraries into Scientific Practice

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Digital Libraries
New Interesting Reads from the Journal of Digital Information
+ MatDL: Integrating Digital Libraries into Scientific Practice
"Digital repositories can be catalysts for new knowledge by providing information space and tools to facilitate the work of students, educators, or scientists. The NSF NSDL Materials Digital Library (MatDL) is adapting existing open source "tools", such as an image gallery and a version control system, to meet the needs of users within the materials science community."
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++ Supporting Community Inquiry with Digital Resources
"Today there are a number of fields that address the need to develop better means of employing information and communication technologies (ICTs) to help communities achieve their goals. Digital infrastructure and repositories are widely created to support the activities of educational, workplace, and scientific communities, as well as virtual communities of interest that may center on topics as diverse as entertainment, crisis management, and health. However, the research and development of ICTs faces numerous challenges."
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Digital Preservation
Source: National Library of Australia
PADI (Preserving Access to Digital Information) and Safekeeping
An article by Marian Hanley, PADI Administrator, National Library of Australia, originally published in the High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine, Issue 9, February 2004.
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Encyclopedias
Source: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Librarian: Don't use Wikipedia as source
A school librarian tells a tech columnist to be careful.
+ See Also: "One great source -- if you can trust it" (2004)
Noted tech columnist Hiawatha Bray shares his thoughts.
+ Not Available "On the Web"
Peter Jacso reviewed Wikipedia in the March/April, 2002 of Online To Wikepedia's credit they offer a response here. I hope Peter will write an updated review soon.
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National Archives--Japan
Source: Asahi Weekly
Editorial: Role of National Archives
"The role of a national archive is to preserve important government documents and open them to the public. But the number of those documents offered to the National Archives of Japan has dramatically decreased in recent years. That is because government ministries and agencies have become unwilling to offer the documents under their control for public scrutiny."
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Libraries
Source: Newsday
Library fits any budget but its own
From the editorial: "We don't have any additional data," Larra Clark, the association's spokeswoman, said last week. "But from what I've heard from around the country, many libraries are still reporting increases in circulation. That good news is complicated a bit by all the cuts in library funding." In other words, making an apples-to-apples comparison of the present and recent past is tricky. Even if more people continue to show up at libraries, tightened budgets have yielded reductions at many locales in library personnel and purchases of books, CDs, videos and other materials. Operating hours have been slashed."

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