The Database Preservation Toolkit allows conversion between Database formats, including connection to live systems, for purposes of digitally preserving databases. The toolkit allows conversion of live or backed-up databases into preservation formats such as DBML or SIARD, XML-based formats created for the purpose of database preservation. The toolkit also allows conversion of the preservation formats back into live systems to allow the full functionality of databases. For example, it supports a specialized export into MySQL, optimized for PhpMyAdmin, so the database can be fully experimented using a web interface.
The DPC Technology Watch Report series is intended as an advanced introduction to specific issues for those charged with establishing or running services for long term access. They identify and track developments in IT, standards and tools which are critical to digital preservation activities. They are commissioned by experts on these developments and are thoroughly scrutinised by peers before being released. Authors are asked to provide reports that are informed, current, concise and balanced; lower the barriers to participation in digital preservation; derive from the needs of the Coalitions members; and are of utility to members and non-members alike. ISSN 2048-7916 | Digital Preservation Coalition
Confederation of Open Access Repositories, COAR, is a young association which unites organisations from across the world. Its core mission is to enhance greater visibility and application of research outputs through global networks of Open Access digital repositories. Moreover, COAR aims to enable every citizen in the world to get access to – and be able to benefit from – knowledge produced from publicly-funded research.
Hugh McGuire. Pressbooks is easy-to-use book writing software that lets you create a book in all the formats you need to publish. Pressbooks delivers print-ready files for CreateSpace, IngramSpark and Lightning Source, as well as ebook files optimized to look great in all ebook stores: Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Nook, Kobo, Google Play and more.
IssueLab helps those who don't have access to giant university databases. A service of the Foundation Center. the Lab "works to more effectively gather, index, and share the collective intelligence of the social sector." over 18,000 resources related to the world's most pressing social quandaries. compendium of case studies, evaluations, white papers, and issue briefs
a cloud-based library full of e-books. In areas where books are scarce but mobile networks are expanding, digital platform provides access to critical educational and reading materials. optimized for low bandwidth environments, easy to use, and will ultimately be available on any device. It is also significantly more cost effective and sustainable than building and maintaining physical libraries. Our content is curated for each site with on-the-ground partners to meet their specific, educational and cultural needs in the local languages.
Chatham House research on this topic explores civil society, the intersection of religion and politics, and issues relating to political participation for young people and women.
The Datahub provides free access to many of CKAN's core features, letting you search for data, register published datasets, create and manage groups of datasets, and get updates from datasets and groups you're interested in. You can use the web interface or, if you are a programmer needing to connect the Datahub with another app, the CKAN API.
The VeraPDF consortium will generate an authoritative corpora of test files and execute the development of a purpose built implementation checker, associated policy checker optimized for the use of digital preservationists, and metadata fixer software. The VeraPDF consortium’s end product will be definitive conformance checking software for PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 under GPLv3 or later and MPLv2 or later open source licenses together with a substantial and enthusiastic community supporting and extending the model.
Kindrd works by making ‘Links’ between things. A Link can be anything; the city that inspired an album, the book that led to a film or two songs that just feel like they go together. These links help us to explore the things we love and discover media in a whole new way. We call it ‘Mapping Culture’.
Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts. Critical Commons is also part of the technical and conceptual architecture for numerous electronic publishing efforts that directly engage media as objects of analysis, curation and critique. At the heart of Critical Commons is an online platform for viewing, tagging, sharing, annotating curating and spreading media. Our goal is to build open, informed communities around media-based research, teaching, learning and creativity.
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. includes Ancient, Medieval, and modern Sourcebooks, also: African History, East Asian History, Global History, Indian History, Islamic History, Jewish History, History of Science, Women's History, and An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History.
PublicData.eu will provide a single point of access to open, freely reusable datasets from numerous national, regional and local public bodies throughout Europe. PublicData.eu will harvest and federate European public datasets to enable users to search, query, process, cache and perform other automated tasks on the data from a single place.
AcaWiki is like a "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible.
a torrent tracker for public datasets. If you are scientist, research developer or just interested in it, you can find and download some dataset or, if you are owner of dataset, you can publish this dataset (become a torrent seeder) at this site.
This catalog supplies many sets of public data produced by City agencies. The data sets are available in a variety of machine-readable formats and are updated often.
a service to archive shortened Universal Resource Locators (URLs). This will enable redirect services to incorporate these shortened URLs when a member company ceases business activities.
The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is poised to be the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data. Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, DataONE will ensure preservation and access to multi-scale, multi-discipline, and multi-national science data. DataONE will transcend domain boundaries and make biological data available from the genome to the ecosystem; make environmental data available from atmospheric, ecological, hydrological, and oceanographic sources; provide secure and long-term preservation and access; and engage scientists, land-managers, policy makers, students, educators, and the public through logical access and intuitive visualizations.
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.
openpub - Project Hosting on Google Code. an application of the Atom Syndication Format intended to enable content creators and distributors to distribute digital books via a simple catalog format. The mechanism through which compatible Reading Systems access the distributed catalog has three components: eBook content, XML catalog metadata, and an HTTP transport for the catalog. OPDS-compatible Reading Systems must support IDPF EPUB, and may optionally support additional formats.
The canons of page construction are a set of principles in the field of book design used to describe the ways that page proportions, margins and type areas (print spaces) of books are constructed.
Preservation and Access Technology The Relationship Between Digital and Other Media Conversion Processes: A Structured Glossary of Technical Terms. CLIR
ResourceSync will research, develop, prototype, test, and deploy mechanisms for the large-scale synchronization of web resources. ResourceSync is a joint cooperation between NISO and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) team. builds on the OAI-PMH strategies. As we move from a web of documents to a web of data, synchronization becomes even more important: decisions made based on unsynchronized or incoherent scientific or economic data can have serious deleterious impact.
ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) is a XML Schema that details technical metadata for describing the layout and content of physical text resources, such as pages of a book or a newspaper. It most commonly serves as an extension schema used within the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) administrative metadata section. However, ALTO instances can also exist as a standalone document used independently of METS.
what would be the effects both on readers and on writers if discursive argument migrated to a hypertext environment? Doug Brent, Faculty of General Studies, University of Calgary. 1997.
The new DLF website. The goal for the site is to not only provide information about the DLF community, but also serve as a resource and communication hub around important ideas and trends developing throughout the broader digital library community.
The SHAMAN project develops and tests a next generation, long term digital preservation framework including systems and tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data across libraries and archives. It comprises the definition of the SHAMAN Theory of Preservation integrating the analysis, ingestion, management, access to and reuse of information objects across distributed repositories. The data preservation capabilities offered secure the authenticity and integrity of data objects through time.
This resource provides a searchable collection of select electronic Peace Corps materials from 1961-present. This collection consists of materials from the Peace Corps archives and contributions from current and returned Peace Corps Volunteers and Staff.
Developed by the National Center for Health Statistics, the Health Indicators Warehouse (HIW) is a new resource serving as the data hub for the HHS Community Health Data Initiative. It contains standardized health outcome and health determinant indicators along with associated evidence-based interventions, which can be easily displayed, and will benefit a broad variety of users. Indicators in the HIW are categorized by topic, geography, and initiative.
a searchable, sortable, ongoing database of digital news outlets across the country. Contains original profiles and extensive data sets on each outlet. CJR plans to continuously add to the database. profiles will include national outlets, but the bulk of the database will eventually be made up of the many local operations..
by Robert T. Carroll. The Skeptic's Dictionary is a website and a book. Each features definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, and provides a lively, commonsense trove of detailed information on things supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. Dozens of topics in logic, perception, science, and philosophy are also covered to help explain the appeal and popularity of occult beliefs and to provide a guide for critical thinking.
EPUB is an open specification for digital books based on familiar technologies like XML, CSS, and XHTML, and EPUB files can be read on portable e-ink devices, mobile phones, and desktop computers. This tutorial explains the EPUB format in detail, demonstrates EPUB validation using Java technology, and moves step-by-step through automating EPUB creation using DocBook and Python.
The IBM Center for The Business of Government connects public management research with practice. Since 1998. Sponsors independent research by top minds in academe and the non-profit sector. magazine. radio hour. blogs reports.
The Alabama Inventors Database includes inventors who lived in Alabama at the time they received their patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library compiles these records and updates the database on an ongoing basis. Each record contains a link to the Web site of the USPTO where scanned images of the original documents may be viewed using TIFF software.
The University of Michigan Law School's has launched the nation's only comprehensive online database of human trafficking cases. The database will provide immediate access to the details of more than 150 human trafficking cases gathered so far by the Human Trafficking Law Project. The searchable listings contain the stories of children tricked into leaving their homes in West Africa, then forced to work without pay in American hair-braiding shops; girls and young women prostituted on American streets; and workers who toiled against their will on American farms. Each database entry is carefully screened and researched by law students, recent law graduates, and other volunteers who flesh out the initial results of LexisNexis searches. The researchers then make entries into such individually searchable fields as name, state, and category of offense. To ensure reliable data, each entry is reviewed by a program manager before it becomes visible to the public.
MemeTracker builds maps of the daily news cycle by analyzing around 900,000 news stories and blog posts per day from 1 million online sources, ranging from mass media to personal blogs. We track the quotes and phrases that appear most frequently over time across this entire online news spectrum. This makes it possible to see how different stories compete for news and blog coverage each day, and how certain stories persist while others fade quickly.
Cornette Library, West Texas A&M University. At this time, [Feb 2011] FDsys does not have an A to Z list of its online resources. Until then, you may use this page as a guide. This is a recreation of the original "GPO Access Online Resources: A-Z Resource List." Now it reflects where some titles are located on FDsys. It also includes other items that GPO Access only linked to and where they can be found. Any FDsys links below are "browse only." Paths to items are included for additional information.
Open source Full-featured ILS. In use worldwide in libraries of all sizes, Koha is a true enterprise-class ILS with comprehensive functionality including basic or advanced options. Koha includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more. linux and perl.
Federal Register Watch is a daily newsletter that monitors the Federal Register sends just what you want to read to your inbox. Subscribers to the service can tell us just what they want to read, whether that is just a certain agency or even just those publications with a certain word. Federal Register Watch will filter out just what is requested and send a single daily digest to your inbox!
"radio show" too. "a brilliant grassroots collaborative project enlisting some of the country's top publishing talent – writers, editors, art directors, designers, photographers, radio producers – and unreasonable amounts of coffee to put together – write, edit, lay out, publish and distribute – a full-fledged magazine in 48 hours."
Museum of the Moving Image. site contains interviews and articles with film critics, filmmakers, and other commentators. contains four primary areas: "Articles", "Calendar", "Dialogues", and "Research Guide, which includes helpful links to sites that deal with film criticism, scoring, history, and technology.
PBS Learning Media is a dynamic platform offering the best of public media content and produced specifically for PreK-16 teachers. With free access to over 14,000 high-quality resources tied to national standards, teachers can download, save and share exactly what they need for an inspired classroom experience. holds more than 14,000 “digital learning objects” — videos, curricula, images, audio, and interactive sites
We carefully curate a large group of the world’s most respected critics, assign scores to their reviews, and apply a weighted average to summarize the range of their opinions. The result is a single number that captures the essence of critical opinion in one Metascore. Each movie, game, television show and album featured on Metacritic gets a Metascore when we've collected at least four critics' reviews.
Byliner is a publishing company and social network built around great stories. Byliner publishes original narratives by some of the most accomplished writers working today, at lengths that allow them to be read in a single sitting. Called Byliner Originals, these stories typically range between 10,000 and 35,000 words and are available in digital form, with select titles also available as audio or print-on-demand books. They tackle compelling stories from the worlds of culture, technology, politics, business, sports, science, crime, adventure, and more. On Byliner.com, readers can discover, share, and discuss articles with a community of fellow readers, receive personalized recommendations, and follow their favorite writers — ensuring that they never miss a great read. Byliner.com also acts as a platform for writers, enabling them to connect directly with their audience. Byliner. We’ll find you something good to read.
Killing the Buddha is an online magazine of religion, culture, and politics. readers are both hostile and drawn to talk of God to join them in building an electronic Tower of Babel, a Talmudic cathedral of stories about faith lost and found. KtB is much more than an online magazine. Under the umbrella of Margins of Faith, our 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we work to increase understanding about today’s living religions in relation to pressing social issues through public engagement and education.
here has been a marked revival of interest in the study of the distribution of top incomes using tax data. Beginning with the research by Piketty of the long-run distribution of top incomes in France (2001, 2003), a succession of studies has constructed top income share time series over the long-run for more than twenty countries to date. These projects have generated a large volume of data, which are intended as a research resource for further analysis.
This site is dedicated to Webmaster tips & tricks, CSS and HTML snippets. Here you can find the articles and links to useful materials about web design, CSS layout techniques and Search Engines Optimization (SEO). Revenue questions (PPC system Google AdSense) are also covered here. Our free webmaster tools can help you to get the most essential information about certain sites (Site Information Tool), and retreive the Google PR (Page Rank) for specified pages. You can also view Google AdSense ads binded to specified sites or keywords, analyze keyword density for certain pages, and even explore changes in the Search Engine algorithms.
Guidestar.org has IRS 990 forms for many, many nonprofits, not just academic ones, available at no charge. gathers and publicizes information about nonprofit organizations. database is broad and deep. Any nonprofit can update its report with information about its mission, programs, leaders, goals, accomplishments, and needs for free. guidestar combines the information that nonprofits supply with data from several other sources including the IRS.
web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time. The script incorporates the latest best practices from Website Optimization Secrets, web page size guidelines and trends, and web site optimization techniques into its recommendations.
The Federal Government produces an immeasurable amount of data each day. DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with those data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the states.
The University of Michigan Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS) provides the foundation and the framework for educational and non-profit institutions to fully develop their digital library collections. DLXS's impressive and comprehensive suite of tools -- including a powerful search engine and an array of class-based middleware -- has for years served as the cornerstone for digital library services and resources at the University of Michigan, including the Making of America collection, the Humanities Text Initiative, and the Library's Image Services program.
BoardReader was developed to address the shortcomings of current search engine technology to accurately find and display information contained on the Web's forums and message boards. Founded in May 2000 by engineers and students from the University of Michigan.
Recollection seeks to provide the platform, tools and environment that enables the community of NDIIPP Partners to share their collections and data on an ongoing basis. In addition, NDIIPP collections can be showcased from a central point through the activities of the Partners, and not the manual labor of the Library. This allows NDIIPP to maintain the benefits of a distributed network of partners and also take advantage of the collections speaking to one another (Campbell, 2009). Linked data technology is used in Recollection as a basic platform for librarians and curators exposing collections to the Web, and as a source of data to augment these collections. Potential users of the information can more easily discover and analyze this data in a variety of new ways as a result. Not only do consumers of the information have increased access, but collection curators can begin to connect information across collections and from the WWW to enhance collection value with new resources.
Center for Defense Information. recognize the pervasive influence of money in defense decision-making. unravel the budget games the Pentagon and Congress love to play. reform the failed defense procurement system without changing a single law. The Pentagon Labyrinth aims to help both newcomers and seasoned observers learn how to grapple with the problems of national defense. Intended for readers who are frustrated with the superficial nature of the debate on national security, this handbook takes advantage of the insights of ten unique professionals, each with decades of experience in the armed services, the Pentagon bureaucracy, Congress, the intelligence community, military history, journalism and other disciplines.
A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science, wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON API. Street Address to Coordinates, File to Text, OCR, Coordinates to Political Areas, Geodict pulls country, city and region names from unstructured English text, and returns their coordinates. IP Address to Coordinates. Removes the parts of the text that seem to be boilerplate, leaving the real sentences. HTML to Text. HTML to Story. Spots text fragments that look like people's names or titles, Text to Times.
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N. Gray, T. Carozzi, und G. Woan. (2012)cite arxiv:1207.3923 Comment: Project final report, 45 pages: see http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw for project details, and http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw/report for other document versions.