The Digital Dilemma | Science and Technology Council | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “investigates the implications of relying on digital technology for long-term preservation needs.” Has scary numbers about long term costs. (tags: archiving sustainability costs digitization)
Workshop on Sustainable Models for Digital Preservation (tags: sustainability) Interim report of the HLEG on Digital Libraries Sub-Group on Public Private Partnerships Good work here on the tradeoffs involved in pub/private partnerships. (tags: partnerships public private goodterms) NDIIPP Partners Meeting, July 2008 – Digital Preservation (Library of Congress) More presentations up! (tags: ndiipp)
NPR Launches API That Serves Up 13 Years Of Content “(NPR) has introduced an API that it says will allow developers to serve up mashups that include audio, images, and full text articles from the non-profit media organization’s archives that go as far back as 1995.” (tags: archive archives npr radio) Open Access News / [...]
Erik Davis / Archive Fever (tags: sound recording records cds) ‘Digital Lives: Report of Interviews with the Creators of Personal Digital Collections’, Ariadne Issue 55 (tags: PersonalArchiving personal archiving digital_humanities digitalpreservation)
Fake Coffee with the News Product placement by McDonalds on Fox News. (tags: propaganda advertising) PC World – Save Your Data With One of These Top Backup Programs (tags: backup tools storage) MY COLLECTION OF RECORDED 78 RPM RECORDS – FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS (tags: archive collections music free mp3 records) Recovering Family Steel Wire Recordings [...]
UXTV 2008 – First International Conference on Designing Interactive User Experiences for Television and Video (tags: conference video)
Is it protected by copyright? Flash gizmo from ALA. (tags: copyright fairuse)
ECPA, European Commission on Preservation and Access (tags: preservation amsterdam tape)
Major EU P2P research project hopes to kill traditional TV (tags: p2p research tribler video bittorrent)
SpiderOak Offers 2GB of Free, Cross-Platform Backup (tags: backup online tools storage) SSRN-Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap by John Tehranian (tags: copyright) A strategy for massive archives (tags: archives storage)
Ppolitical videos meet Google speech-to-text technology Today, the Google speech team (part of Google Research) is launching the Google Elections Video Search gadget, our modest contribution to the electoral process. With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos from YouTube’s Politicians channe (tags: google politics search video youtube metavid) Slashdot | Google Wins Agreement [...]
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (tags: archiving preservation sustainability) `Public’ online spaces don’t carry speech, rights – The Associated Press: (tags: censorship law rights) Digital threat prompts movie industry downgrade “A Lehman Brothers analyst downgraded the entertainment industry Monday and slashed forecasts for its five major companies, saying digital downloads [...]
United States Intelligence Community From Columbia University. (tags: government research intelligence) Fair Use and Online Video The Center for Social Media at American University. Remixes, mashups, fan tributes and other creative work burgeoning in online video often use copyrighted material without permission or payment. When is it fair to do so? (tags: copyright culture fairuse [...]
“Metropolis”: Key scenes from the famous movie rediscovered (tags: art film preservation) Most network data sits untouched …most data on enterprise networks rarely gets accessed after it is written to network storage…among the files that were opened, 65 percent were only opened once. (tags: archives storage)
Europa Film Treasures Film Treasures safeguarded by important European film archives are finally on the net! (tags: archives film free collections) Hulu To Earn Up to $90M In First Year – ReadWriteWeb Hulu is reporting that they saw 63 million streams during their first month of measurement, April 2008 (tags: hulu youtube)