Xena is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena is an acronym meaning Xml Electronic Normalising for Archives. Xena is a component of the Digital Preservation Software Platform (DPSP). Xena software aids digital preservation by performing two important tasks: * detecting the file formats of digital objects * converting digital objects into open formats for preservation.
I would gladly live in a world without copyright, but I don't think that is going to happen. Therefore the best objective, most beneficial to all parties-- and a Xanadu proposal now for forty years-- is to find some way to make copyright less painful, an
The objectives of this initiative are to establish easier access to scientific research data on the Internet, to increase acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scientific record, and to support data archiving that will permit results to be verified and re-purposed for future study. DataCite will promote data sharing, increased access, and better protection of research investment.
WWT allows access to data from the world’s best ground- and space- based telescopes. much of the material is available on the site without the entire Windows application.
World Images database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. Images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images are organized into over 800 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings.
Designed and produced by the World Wide Web Foundation, the Web Index is the world's first multi-dimensional measure of the Web's growth, utility and impact on people and nations. First edition in 2012 covers 61 developed and developing countries, incorporating indicators that assess the political, economic and social impact of the Web, as well as indicators of Web connectivity and infrastructure. It will be published annually. It will eventually allow for comparisons of trends over time and the benchmarking of performance across countries, continuously improving our understanding of the Web's value for humanity.
The World Problems and Global Issues section of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential it is an ongoing attempt to provide profiles of, and map relationships between, ALL the problems humanity faces, in the hopes that a more comprehensive understanding would greatly enhance our ability to deal with these challenges.
World's #1 place for 360 photography. Stunning panoramas from over 90 countries. Explore, license, commission stock photos. Join us, learn, and publish!
Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing you to check out the numbers for yourself. This is the Guardian’s gateway to that information. Search for government data here from the UK (including London), USA, Australia and New Zealand – and look out for new countries and places as we add them.
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings. by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution. search. interactive geographic clusters, a timeline. The WDL was developed by a team at the U.S. Library of Congress, with contributions by partner institutions in many countries; the support of UNESCO.
he World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Donate the time your computer is turned on, but is idle, to projects that benefit humanity! We provide the secure software that does it all for free, and you become part of a community that is helping to change the world. Once you install the software, you will be participating in World Community Grid.
the Complete World Development Report Online. Here you will find every page of every World Development Report published by the World Bank since the first report was released in 1978.
This Web site, based on the book Women in Congress, 1917–2006, contains biographical profiles of former women Members of Congress, links to information about current women Members, essays on the institutional and national events that shaped successive g
Today's Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.
survey research conducted by the Center for Survey Research at the University of Washington, Led by Prof. Christopher Parker, University of Washington's Institute for the Study or Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality (WISER). web site has results, but no raw data. The poll found that "support for the Tea Party remains a valid predictor of racial resentment."
This site is about teaching you more about the tools you own. I like to think people have a portfolio of tools which might include their Windows PC, PDA, cell phone and so on.
The Digital Archive contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe, uncovering new sources and providing fresh insights into the history of international relations and diplomacy. It collects the research of three Wilson Center projects which focus on the interrelated histories of the Cold War, Korea, and Nuclear Proliferation.
a site with texts and information about Shakespeare. Linda Alchin created the site. She is an author primarily specialising in history. Her career initially focussed on conventional techniques providing adult education. With the advent of the internet she moved on to distance learning projects...
A critical review site examining Wikipedia's flaws and follies. to examine the corruption there, along with its structural flaws; and to inoculate the unsuspecting public against the torrent of misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense that issues forth from one of the world’s most frequently visited websites.
Wikipedia reference desk works like a library reference desk. Users leave questions on the reference desk and Wikipedia volunteers work to help you find the information you need.
DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
search engine that focuses on hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in and other personalized websites cuts out most of the commercial web. like the the earlier days of the internet.
You can limit eXist to being an XML storage facility that your existing web server draws content from, or you can store your entire web application in eXist (CSS, Javascript, images, and all), and make eXist your project's website.
Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of citations. Our algorithms use the structure of the entire network (instead of purely local citation information) to evaluate the importance of each journal.
The Washington Post Company. Who Runs Gov offers a unique look at the world of Washington through its key players and personalities. The site features profiles of a select group of government officials, legislators, senior Congressional aides and committee staff, and experts at think tanks and interest groups who influence how policy is made. Each profile focuses on an individual's policy experience and involvement with specific areas of government decision-making.
What’s Next is a trends report offering clear, concise and non-sensationalist commentary on trends in society, business, science & technology, government and the environment. Each issue covers trends across twelve sectors and speculates about future risks and opportunities. The current issue of What’s Next is available free of charge on an online basis.
dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research. brings together faculty members, librarians, and graduate students dedicated to exploring whether and how new technologies can be used to improve the professional and public value of sc
DOTS is a true optical “eye-readable” method of storing digital files. With sufficient magnification, one can actually see the digital information. Our “Rosetta Leader™” specification calls for microfiche-scale human readable text at the beginning of each tape with instructions on how the data is encoded and instructions on how to actually construct a reader. Because the information is visible, as long as cameras and imaging devices are available, the information will always be recoverable.
highly-scalable software for libraries that helps library patrons find library materials, and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. windows.
the data here is useful for testing classification / clustering, and the accuracy of indexing techniques. However the datasets are too small to make claims about the efficiency of indexing.
books in google book project stored here. HathiTrust was conceived as a collaboration of the thirteen universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation and the University of California system to establish a repository for these universities to archive and share their digitized collections. Partnership is open to all who share this grand vision.
Whether you are looking to decide if open source software is right for your library or need help finding what open source software package meets your needs, this site has the content and the community to help you with those decisions.
SWORD is a lightweight protocol for depositing content from one location to another. It stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit and is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol (known as APP or ATOMPUB). SWORD has been funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee to develop the SWORD profile and a number of demonstration implementations. The SWORD vision is 'lowering the barriers to deposit', principally for depositing content (any content!) into repositories, but potentially for depositing into any system which wants to receive content from remote sources.
The Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT) was designed to help libraries make informed decisions about investments in major bibliographic and full-text databases. It allows users to compare database title holdings, as well as key features of database and eBook content platforms.
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