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May 26, 2005

Conf: Face of text, Nov 2004

I encourage you to see the new Media page at the Face of Text web site. We
have mounted a Quicktime application with streaming video synchronized with
slide images and texts of selected speakers (like Julia Flanders, Jerome
McGann, Stephen Ramsay and John Unsworth) from The Face of Text conference
that was held in November of 2004.

http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~faceoftext/media.htm

You can also try audio podcasts of keynote presentations.

Yours,

Geoffrey Rockwell

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May 19, 2005

Digital library: Summary of Tools

Summary of tools for building a digital library, posted to diglib:

Software used to build and present digital collections:
- Greenstone
- Fedora (http://www.fedora/info) ;
- a very comprehensive and extended comparison of features and functionality of open source software is available at http://www.soros.org/openaccess/software/
- a less detailed comparison between DSpace, Fedora, and the commercial CONTENTDm is available at http://staff.oclc.org/~levan/docs/ContentDM%20vs%20DSpace%20vs%20Fedora.ppt#256,1,CONTENTdm
- commercial software to consider as well : DLXS (built and used for instance for Making Of America http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/), CONTENTdm, ENCompass (Endeavor), DigiTool (ExLibris)
- a list of open source and commercial software is available at http://www.bcdlib.tc.ca/tools-software.html

Standards to structure digitized pages in books: METS or TEI

Besides, one may find at http://ldp.library.jhu.edu/projects/repository (at the "Documents" tab) a summary of an on-going study (by Johns Hopkins) on how different databases/user interface can co-exist and connect with each other thanks to an intermediate 'interface layer' (maybe more for IT specialists).

Best regards
Cécile Gass
ULB - Bibliothèque Electronique

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May 15, 2005

Fedora Conference Proceedings

May 2005 Fedora Users Confrence at Rutgers: conference abstracts and slides:

http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/fedora_conf_2005/program.html

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May 12, 2005

Art: scanning workshop

Scanning, PhotoShop, slide scanning, ftp, etc. 2 hour workshop for Art faculty. Follow-up next week for 3 more plus additional questions.
(Lynda McIntyre)

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May 3, 2005

Serna, wysiwyg xml editor

XML to PDF editor?
Syntext Serna: Portable True WYSIWYG XML Editor

Posted by hag at 12:56 PM

Oxford VRE

"Oxford University has been awarded significant funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to develop infrastructure and tools for the next generation of collaborative research environments." Virtual Research Environment Projects at Oxford University

Oxford University has been awarded significant funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to develop infrastructure and tools for the next generation of collaborative research environments.

Posted by hag at 11:02 AM