Monthly Archives: May 2010

DigitalKoans has published over 3,000 posts.
Excluding spider requests and requests resulting in errors, DigitalKoans has had over 13.6 million file requests from 4/20/05 (initial publication date) through 4/30/10, of which over 6.3 million requests were page view requests. These file requests came from over 2.6 million visitors in 220 countries. (There were also over 6.7 [...] Continue reading →

The J. Y. Joyner Library at East Carolina University is recruiting an Archivist For Metadata & Encoding (Digital Archivist).
Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Archivist is a member of the Special Collections Department and reports to the Assistant Director for Special Collections. The Digital Archivist will develop, in collaboration with other staff, internal encoding [...] Continue reading →

Stuart Lewis has announced that a multiple-deposit function has been added to the EasyDeposit SWORD client.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

For those of you unfamiliar with EasyDeposit, it is an online tool that allows you to configure your own SWORD client. It is intended that you run multiple copies of EasyDeposit and configure each for [...] Continue reading →

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is recruiting a Systems Administrator-Digital Project Development.
Here's an excerpt from the ad (Job ID #: 603):

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is seeking a Systems Administrator to lead the implementation of new national and international projects as well as maintain and enhance all existing library web-based, digital and electronic projects; Assist with the [...] Continue reading →

The four-year Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) project is ending. To build on its work, the Open Planets Foundation has been established.
The initial members are:

Austrian Institute of Technology
The British Library
Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library of Denmark)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of the Netherlands)
Microsoft Research Limited
Nationaal Archief (The Dutch National Archives)
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek [...] Continue reading →

The iPad came out in the United Kingdom this weekend, and there are a number of new reviews of it making the rounds now. One of those reviews in particular is novelist Charlie Stross’s. Stross has come out with a quite thorough look at the iPad’s advantages and disadvantages, as well as a separate [...] Continue reading →

This was a big panel with about 15 speakers: Christopher McKitterick, Marziah Karch, James K. Burk, Jan Gephardt, Chloe Neill, Dana Bell, Michael Swanwick, Laura LeHew, Rob Chilson, Robin Wayne Bailey, Julia S. Mandala, Dennis Young, Tammy Garrison, Tracy Morris, and Ian Tregillis. (I was a bit surprised that they did not put Toni [...] Continue reading →

I just walked back in my door after the bus ride back from Kansas City.
I had a great time at the convention over the weekend. I taped interviews with Pete Abrams and George R.R. Martin, which I will try to sit down and transcribe over the next few days. I attended panels relating [...] Continue reading →

Todos los .epub son iguales, pero ¿puede ser que algunos sean más iguales que otros?

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NY Magazine has a series of articles where authors pick their favorite books in the genre that they, themselves, write in. William Gibson is one of these and he picked:
Tiger! Tiger (The Stars My Destination) by Alfred Bester
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Arslan by M. J. Engh
The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard
The Forever War [...] Continue reading →