+ Coming Soon: "Pass It On: Personal Archiving Day at the Library of Congress," a Public Event, will be held May 1
The public event will raise awareness and highlight what everyone can do to preserve analog and digital personal and family collections of photos, moving images, re- corded sound and music and personal documents. The Library is holding the event in conjunction with National Preservation Week (May 9-15).
+ Another release in the Digital Preservation Video Series, "Why Digital Preservation is Important for Everyone" Direct to Video
+ Recent news articles about the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative and Birth of the Dot-Com Era Project
+ A report on the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access Symposium, held April 1 in Washington, DC
+ JHOVE2 Prototype released to the digital preservation community
+Read about the e-Depot project at The National Library of the Netherlands
+ Listen to a new podcast in the Library of Congress "Conversations about Digital Preservation" series with Babak Hamidzadeh, director of repository development at the Library of Congress
+ The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records has developed an automated process to preserve official e-mail records
+ North Carolina Partners share project findings at the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, DC
+ Director of Program Management, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Martha Anderson will provide a keynote at the 1st International Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework Symposium in Dresden, Germany, April 21-23
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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