Humanities

By Elin Stangeland, DSpace@Cambridge Repository Manager, Cambridge University Library
Ithaca, NY The next DSpace User Group Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Open Repositories Conference (OR10-http://or2010.fecyt.es) in Madrid, Spain on July 8-9, 2010. DSpace invites presentation proposals for DSpace User Group sessions.

Ithaca, NY The 1950s were a hopeful time in New York City. The arts were flourishing as former Life magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith began photographing Jazz greats such as Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk in a run-down NYC loft. The resulting Jazz Loft Project photographs evoke a time when expansive musical experimentation matched the big cars people were driving out on Sixth Avenue.

Ithaca, NY  Wake Forest University is the home of “Digital Forsyth”(http://www.digitalforsyth.org/), a digital library comprised of photographs held by multiple institutions in Forsyth County, North Carolina. This Web site offers weekend browsers an opportunity to explore a small and fascinating bit of North Carolina’s cultural, historical and scientific heritage (for example, they can fry anything in Forsyth County).

By Dr. Teresa Dobson for the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Team

Ithaca, NY In the mood for a soulful tune by Odetta, at talk by Norman Cousins on Citizen Diplomacy, or perhaps a look into the life and times of artist Man Ray as illustrated by Man Ray, artist William Wegman’s dog.

By Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC
Washington, DC Three new student films on information sharing have been voted the best by a panel of new media experts, students, and librarians in the third annual Sparky Awards. Organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and adopted by campuses everywhere, the Sparky Awards contest calls on entrants to creatively illustrate in a short video the value of openly sharing ideas.

Ithaca, NY  With the theme, “Open Access Repositories now and in the future–from the global and Asia-Pacific points of view” the Digital Repository Federation International Conference (DRFIC) was held on December 3-4, 2009 in Tokyo and focused on topics relevant to digital repository and open access.

Ithaca, NY The IslandLives (http://islandlives.ca/) collection offers weekend browsers a rare glimpse into the lives, environment, culture and history of a small community perched far to the north in the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

Ithaca, NY If you take the DEV8D symbol “8D” and turn it 90 degrees counter-clockwise you get a laughing face, which is suitable for an unconference structured around a program especially designed to make developers happy. How do the organizers know this phenomena is real? At the 2009 event attendees collaborated on the development of a “Happyness-o-meter” to find out exactly how happy the event made attendees.

Madison, WI The long-term goal of migrating their digital collection, currently in production at University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, to an all-Fedora enabled repository system, mapped onto production workflows with many moving parts and pieces inspired the development of prototype site. Fedora’s scalability was tested by ingesting about 30,000 digital objects from representative collections:
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/UWDCNew/