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Sunday, 23rd April 2006

Interview: Merrilee Proffitt Talks About RedLightGreen and ArchveGrid

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+ RLG's Merrilee Proffit Interviewed (via EDUCAUSE)
Merrilee is one of the key people behind the development of a ResourceShelf favorite resource and frankly one that deserves more attention, RedLightGreen. You can learn more about this very useful (free) service here. Proffit also played a role in the development and recent release of ArchiveGrid that we posted about here.
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+ LITA names Ching-chih Chen winner of the 2006 Kilgour Award
"'The Kilgour Award Committee takes great pleasure in acknowledging the important work and contributions of Ching-chih Chen, whose research has led to significant achievements in the areas of global digital libraries, multimedia technology, digital imaging, interactive videodisc technology, global information infrastructure, and information management,' said Qiang Jin, chair of the award committee."
See Also: A List of Dr. Chen's Writings and Accomplishments
See Also: Dr. Chen is Also Supervising the Development of the Global Memory Net
"GMNet's goal is to develop a model of international collaboration through the development of this global gateway to world culture, history, and heritage. The main portion of GMNet is its extensive image collections of GMNet's own as well as those contributed by its content collaborators, such as the US Library of Congress' Asian Division, and many other major institutions in the world...Global Memory Net (GMNet) will be launched for public access in 2006."

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