Sign Library

The main aim of the SignLibrary is to facilitate access to literature and cultural knowledge by translating World Literature into Sign Language. You can 'read' Sign Language Books  in different Sign Languages on this site or download the files to your computer or mobile-device.

http://www.signlibrary.eu/

Books: Evaluating & Measuring the Value, Use and Impact of Digital Collections

"A huge investment has been made in digitizing scholarly and cultural heritage materials through initiatives based in museums, libraries and archives, as well as higher education institutions. The ‘Digital Economy’ is an important component of institutional planning, and much attention is given to the investment in digital projects and programmes. However, few initiatives have examined the actual use, value and impact of digital collections, and the role of digital collections in the changing information environment.
As the creative, cultural and educational sector faces a period of restricted funding, it is timely to re-examine the use of the digital collections that have been created in the past twenty years, and to consider their value to the institutions that host them and to the communities of users they serve.
This book brings together a group of international experts to consider the following key issues: [...]"

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7203

News: Patron Driven Acquisition - Lehmanns und De Gruyter testen neues Erwerbsmodell für Bibliotheken

"Für Bibliotheken, die sich mit schrumpfenden Budgets auf die zunehmende Nachfrage nach digitalen Medien einstellen wollen, zeichnet sich eine neue Perspektive ab. Das „Patron Driven Acquisition“-Modell von Lehmanns und De Gruyter stößt auf hohes Interesse. [...]"

http://www.buchreport.de/nachrichten/nachrichten_detail/datum/2011/12/19/kunde-gibt-kaufimpuls.htm?no_cache=1&cHash=7ee5fec54bf13084349ac8339af799d9

Feuilleton: „Digital Humanities“ Auf dem Weg zur digitalen Großarchitektur, FAZ - 13.12.2011

Ein Beitrag von T. Thiel:

"Forschungsinfrastrukturen zählten bisher nicht zu den Magneten unter den geisteswissenschaftlichen Tagungsthemen. Dass in Bonn mehr als zweihundert Wissenschaftler der Einladung des Wissenschaftsrats und der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft folgten, um sich durch die Funktionslyrik dieses Themas zu kämpfen, verlangt deshalb nach einer Erklärung. Sie hat, man ahnt es, viel mit Daten und Rechnern zu tun. [...]

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/forschung-und-lehre/digital-humanities-auf-dem-weg-zur-digitalen-grossarchitektur-11561481.html

Handschriftencensus: inventory of German medieval manuscripts

The 'Handschriftencensus' provides an inventory of the manuscript transmission of German mediaeval texts. Currently (January 2011) it contains information concerning the transmission of more than 5,000 works from more than 22,000 manuscripts preserved in more than 1,300 libraries and archives.

Der Handschriftencensus bietet eine Bestandsaufnahme der handschriftlichen Überlieferung deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters. Er gibt momentan (Stand: Januar 2011) Auskunft zur Überlieferung von mehr als 5.000 Werken aus über 22.000 Handschriften, die in über 1.300 Bibliotheken und Archiven aufbewahrt werden.

http://www.handschriftencensus.de/

Books: Writing History in the Digital Age

Has the digital revolution transformed how we write about the past — or not? Have new technologies changed our essential work-craft as scholars, and the ways in which we think, teach, author, and publish? Does the digital age have broader implications for individual writing processes, or for the historical profession at large? Explore these questions in Writing History in the Digital Age, a born-digital edited volume, under contract with the University of Michigan Press for the Digital Humanities Series of its digitalculturebooks imprint.

http://writinghistory.trincoll.edu/

Report: Digital Humanities Software Developers Workshop (Cologne, 28-29 Nov 2011)

"The first workshop for Digital Humanities Software Developers took place at the University of Cologne from the 28th to the 29th of November. The main aim of the workshop was to bring together the DH developers, discuss ideas, and work collaborative in projects. Around 40 participants attended to the workshop, with a large majority of developers and some researchers [...]"

http://blogs.cch.kcl.ac.uk/wip/2011/12/13/digital-humanities-software-developers-workshop/

Interedition

Interedition is a COST Action; our aim is to promote the interoperability of the tools and methodology we use in the field of digital scholarly editing and research.

There are a great many researchers out there in the field of textual scholarship. Some of you have written some amazing computer tools in the course of your research, and others of you could benefit greatly if these tools were openly available. The primary purpose of Interedition is to facilitate this contact—to encourage the creators of tools for textual scholarship to make their functionality available to others, and to promote communication between scholars so that we can raise awareness of innovative working methods.

http://www.interedition.eu/

http://www.interedition.eu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Workshop: Methods and Means For Digital Analysis of Ancient and Medieval Texts and Manuscripts (Leuven, 2-3 April 2012)

This workshop aims at mapping the various ways in which digital tools can help and, indeed, change our scholarly work on “pre-modern” texts, more precisely our means of analyzing the interrelationships between manuscripts and texts produced in the pre-modern era. This includes the history of textual traditions in a very broad sense, encompassing several fields of research, such as book history, stemmatology, research on textual sources, tracing of borrowings and influences between texts, etc.

http://medievalacademy.org/blog/2011/12/12/methods-and-means-for-digital-analysis-of-ancient-and-medieval-texts-and-manuscripts/

Podcast: The Humanities in a Digital Age

On November 11th, the University’s new Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures hosted a daylong symposium on “The Humanities in a Digital Age.” The symposium included two panels—one on Access & Ownership and the other on Research & Teaching—and two keynote talks.

http://www.scholarslab.org/podcasts/humanities-in-a-digital-age-symposium-podcast/

Newton Papers

Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). We present here an initial selection of Newton's manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s. Over the next few months we will be adding further works until the majority of our Newton Papers are available on this site.

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton

Digital Vatican Library

The Vatican Library is one of the largest in the world. Now it's also one of the most modern. The library is taking a giant leap to the web. By using NASA technology, it's planning on scanning 80,000 of its manuscripts. 

http://www.romereports.com/palio/vatican%27s-library-begins-to-digitize-80000-of-its-manuscripts-with-nasa-technology-english-5590.html

Cambridge Digital Library

Over the course of six centuries Cambridge University Library's collections have grown from a few dozen volumes into one of the world's great libraries, with an extraordinary accumulation of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. These cover every conceivable aspect of human endeavour, spanning most of the world's cultural traditions. While parts of the Library's manuscript collections have already been published in print, microfilm and digital formats, we are now building a substantial online resource so that our collections can be much more accessible to students, researchers and the wider public.

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/

Text transform to picture - Textrapic

Am Institut für grafische Wissensorganisation, einem Startup der Universität Rostock ist mit dem Text-Mining Algorithmus „Textrapic“ ein Verfahren zur Analyse von Texten entwickelt worden, mit dem sich insbesondere wissenschaftliche Texte auswerten und in interpretierbare Bilder umwandeln lassen.


http://idw-online.de/pages/en/news455291

http://grawis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117&Itemid=145

Journal: Computational Culture

Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of the culture of computational objects, practices, processes and structures.
The journal’s primary aim is to examine the ways in which software undergirds and formulates contemporary life. Computational processes and systems not only enable contemporary forms of work and play and the management of emotional life but also drive the unfolding of new events that constitute political, social and ontological domains. In order to understand digital objects such as corporate software, search engines, medical databases or to enquire into the use of mobile phones, social networks, dating, games, financial systems or political crises, a detailed analysis of software cannot be avoided.

http://computationalculture.net/

Historische Bibliographie Online

Die Datenbank zur Geschichte
Die Datenbank Historische Bibliographie Online umfasst derzeit 326.849 bibliographische Einträge von publizierten Titeln historischer Fachliteratur seit 1990: Monographien, Beiträge aus Zeitschriften und Sammelwerken. Sie wird ergänzt durch das Jahrbuch der historischen Forschung mit 8.790 Einträgen entstehender, noch nicht veröffentlichter Forschungsarbeiten.

Die Suchmaske ermöglicht zunächst eine schnelle und einfache Volltextsuche über den Gesamtdatenbestand, die bei Bedarf dann präzisiert werden kann.

 http://www.oldenbourg.de/verlag/ahf/

Project: European Historical Bibliographies

European Historical Bibliographies is a joint project of fifteen subject-specific bibliographies from thirteen countries. It shall promote continuous cooperation among the participating institutions and bring together, on a European level, their various national bibliographic resources so that trans-national historical research is facilitated. The common platform is hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

 http://www.histbib.eu/

Feuilleton: Bildung nach dem digitalen Klimawandel

"Wir befinden uns inmitten eines digitalen Klimawandels. Ein Buch ist in der Google-Ära nichts Festes mehr: eher so etwas wie eine vorübergehende Ballung von flüssigem Wissensstoff. Es ist kein Zufall, dass Flüssigkeitsmetaphern seit dem Web 2.0 allgegenwärtig sind..."

http://www.taz.de/Bildung-nach-dem-digitalen-Klimawandel/!83272/

Digitale Bibliothek Greifswald

http://ub-goobi-pr.ub.uni-greifswald.de/

Digitale Giessener Sammlungen

http://digisam.ub.uni-giessen.de/index.html

Jagiellonian Digital Library

http://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/dlibra

The Future of Digital Publishing

Three of the most imaginative theorists and practitioners of digital publishing will describe their activities and perspectives on the digital frontier.

http://lecb.physics.lsa.umich.edu/CWIS/browser.php?ResourceId=4182

News: Report on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

 Jefferson's Taper: A National Digital Library

Robert Darnton "offer[s] a work-in-progress report on the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and [...] argue[s] that it is a feasible, affordable project as well as an opportunity to realize the Enlightenment ideals":

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/24/jeffersons-taper-national-digital-library/

CARPET - Community for Academic Reviewing, Publishing and Editorial Technology

Sie interessieren sich für ePublishing-Software oder suchen ein geeignetes Tool? Hier im Katalog finden Sie Software, Dienste und ePublishing-Projekte.

http://www.carpet-project.net/

Projekt: Forschungsnetzwerk und Datenbanksystem (FuD)

Das Softwaresystem FuD ist als integrierte Arbeits-, Publikations- und Informationsplattform für die Geisteswissenschaften konzipiert.

Es unterstützt die Zusammenarbeit in räumlich verteilten Arbeitsgruppen während der verschiedenen Phasen des Forschungsprozesses von der Inventarisierung und Erfassung der Primärdaten über ihre Erschließung und Analyse bis hin zur Ergebnispublikation und Datenarchivierung

 

http://fud.uni-trier.de/index.php?site_id=101

Projekt: Historisches Forschungsnetzwerk

„Virtuelle Forschungsumgebungen” können im Kontext einer „Digitalen Geschichtswissenschaft” als Verallgemeinerung der Bereitstellung und Integration unterschiedlicher netzbasierter Angebote und Dienste gelesen werden, welche die gängigen „Werkzeuge” der Erschließung, Bearbeitung und Veröffentlichung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen enthalten. Die Fachinformationsdienste H-Soz-u-Kult und Clio-online sind Teil einer Fachinformations und -kommunikationslandschaft, die sich zukünftig durch ihre Vernetzung semantisch angereicherter Informationen auszeichnen wird. Im Projekt “Historisches Forschungsnetz” werden verschiedene Bausteine für „Virtuelle Forschungsumgebung(en)“ in den Geschichtswissenschaften entwickelt, in die vorhandene Fachinformations- und Kommunikationsangebote integriert werden und die für zukünftige Entwicklungen offen ist.

http://www2.hu-berlin.de/historisches-forschungsnetz/

Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH)

The NeDiMAH Network will examine the practice of, and evidence for, advanced ICT methods in the arts and humanities across Europe, and articulate these findings in a series of outputs and publications. To accomplish this, NeDiMAH will provide a locus of networking and interdisciplinary exchange of expertise among the trans-European community of digital arts and humanities researchers, as well as those engaged with creating and curating scholarly and cultural heritage digital collections.

http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=8752

Die Zukunft der Bibliotheken und Archive im digitalen Zeitalter

"Frisst das Netz die Archive?" fragt Andreas Kilb in der FAZ:

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/digitales-kulturerbe-unsichtbare-vasen-fuer-die-menschheit-11539800.html

Distributed Search Engines

YaCy

YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal, the network does not store user search requests and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the shared index. We want to achieve freedom of information through a free, distributed web search which is powered by the world's users.


Possible applications: 

YaCy can operate as a single search appliance without networking with other peers. Such a search instance can be used for:

• Search for projects - a combination of wikis, forums and websites
• Topic-oriented search engine - combine a search for several web pages from different domains into a single search portal.
• Companies can host their own search engine in order to help guard company secrets (a company may give away secrets with the search words employees submit to a search portal).
• YaCy helps to preserve your anonymity when searching

http://yacy.net/en/

How to google?

Tips and tricks for efficient Googling:

http://www.hackcollege.com/blog/2011/11/23/infographic-get-more-out-of-google.html

Museo Galileo library

The Museo Galileo library is presently composed of nearly forty thematic digital collections.
The digital collections are a result of a profitable collaboration with specialized scholars representing different fields related to the history of science and technology. The most significant part of the collection is represented by the Galilean corpus (Galilean Digital Library, Galileo’s Disciples, Accademia del Cimento, Galileo’s Library, Galilaeana online) which represents a fundamental reference in the field of Galilean Studies. Digital records dedicated to the study of perspective, ancient mathematics, with a strong connection to science or published in occasion of special exhibitions enrich the documental ensemble offered by the digital library. All the digital collections provide a free access, except the correspondence of Roger Giuseppe Boscovich (1711-1787) and the digital library on Leonardo da Vinci that require an authorisation from the direction. 

http://www.museogalileo.it/en/explore/libraries/digitallibrary/digitalcollections.html

Conf.: 8th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, February 9-10, 2012 in Bari

http://193.204.187.249/~stefano/IRCDL2012/

The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL)

The Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL) is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era (late 15th-18th c.). Late medieval and patristic works printed and referenced in the early modern era are also included.

http://www.prdl.org/

STERNA – Digitale Bibliothek für Vogelkunde

Digitale Inhalte von zwölf naturhistorischen Museen und Multimedia-Archiven in Europa werden mit semantischen Web-Technologien zugänglich gemacht. STERNA sammelt und präsentiert speziell Materialien zu Vogelarten. Alle Inhalte werden auch der Europäischen Digitalen Bibliothek Europeana bereitgestellt.

http://www.salzburgresearch.at/projekt/sterna/

Conf.: InterNational and InterDisciplinary Aspects of Scholarly Editing - Bern, 15. – 18.02.2012

This international symposium, jointly arranged by the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft für germanistische Edition”, the “European Society for Textual Scholarship”, the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft philosophischer Editionen”, the “Fachgruppe Freie Forschungsinstitute der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung”, and the Swiss National Archive for Literature will be held at the German Department of the University of Bern, from 15th to 18th February 2012. The topic of the colloquium is based on the observation that international cooperation in scholarly editing often has to cope with the fact that the participants are affected by scholarly traditions, theoretical and practical issues that have been developed in the intellectual and institutional environment of their original countries. In the context of plurilingual Switzerland, where the assortment of diverse philological traditions has always been effective, the iridescent state of national and international, disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in scholarly editing will be discussed.

http://www.parzival.unibe.ch/Bern2012/index.html

Aluka - Building a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa

Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. ‘Aluka’, is derived from a Zulu word meaning ‘to weave’, reflecting our commitment to connect resources and scholars from around the world.  In 2008, we announced that Aluka became part of JSTOR, a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. JSTOR aims to place this content hosted by Aluka alongside current JSTOR collections.

http://www.aluka.org/

MyExperiment

MyExperiment is a collaborative environment where scientists can safely publish their workflows and experiment plans, share them with groups and find those of others. Workflows, other digital objects and bundles (called Packs) can now be swapped, sorted and searched like photos and videos on the Web. Unlike Facebook or MySpace, myExperiment fully understands the needs of the researcher and makes it really easy for the next generation of scientists to contribute to a pool of scientific methods, build communities and form relationships - reducing time-to-experiment, sharing expertise and avoiding reinvention. myExperiment is now the largest public repository of scientific workflows and is Linked Data compliant.

http://www.myexperiment.org/

100 Jahre 1. Weltkrieg - Europeana 1914-1918

Das Projekt „Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten: Europas virtuelles Gedächtnis – Europeana“ ist das Auftaktprojekt zur Erweiterung des Great War Archive-Projekts, das 2008 von der Oxford University mit großem Erfolg durchgeführt wurde. Das Great War Archive-Projekt gewann die Öffentlichkeit in Großbritannien zur Mitarbeit bei der Sammlung und Digitalisierung von persönlichen Erinnerungsstücken aus der Zeit des Ersten Weltkrieges.
Die europäische digitale Bibliothek Europeana greift die Idee dieses erfolgreichen Projekts auf und erweitert das Great War Archive um weitere am Ersten Weltkrieg beteiligten europäischen Länder. In Kooperation mit der Oxford University werden bis 2014 in zehn weiteren Ländern Erinnerungsstücke (Alltagsdokumente) aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg digital gesammelt und über Europeana zugänglich gemacht. Start dieses mehrjährigen Projektes ist im März 2011 in Deutschland.

http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/de

News: Samsung kooperiert mit Google künftig bei E-Büchern

"Samsung und Google wollen gemeinsam den digitalen Buchmarkt revolutionieren. Mit neuen E-Book-Readern sollen Nutzer künftig gratis auf Inhalte aus der digitalen Bibliothek des US-Internetkonzerns zugreifen können. Die europäische Buchbranche ist empört.[...]

http://www.wiwo.de/technologie/digitale-bibliothek-samsung-kooperiert-mit-google-kuenftig-bei-e-buechern/5609964.html

Digital - Die Zeitschrift für die Informationsgesellschaft

http://www.digital-zeitschrift.de/nachrichten.php

Wie verändert die Digitalisierung die Geschichtswissenschaft?

Anlässlich des Erscheinens von P. Habers neuem Buch: Digital Past. Geschichtswissenschaft im digitalen Zeitalter. 2011.

"Zu den schönen Seiten des Historikerberufs gehört die Bibliotheksreise. In der Vorrede zu seinem Buch 'The Powers of Prophecy' erinnerte sich der amerikanische Historiker Robert E. Lerner dankbar an die reizvollen Orte, die er im Zuge einer solchen Reise durch Europa besucht, und an die reizenden Menschen, die er getroffen hatte. Und er wagte einen wehmütigen Blick in die Zukunft, in der technische Errungenschaften den Besuch entlegener Archive unnötig machen würden, weil der Forscher von seinem Schreibtisch auf alle Dokumente würde zugreifen können. Das war 1983. [...]"

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/75l38N/295051/Alle-Dokumente-auf-dem-Tisch.html

News: Amazon startet E-Book-Verleih

http://www.buchreport.de/nachrichten/online/online_nachricht/datum/2011/11/03/seattle-will-alles.htm

Philosophical Transactions − the world's first science journal

In 1662, the newly formed 'Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge' was granted a charter to publish by King Charles II and on 6 March 1665, the first issue of Philosophical Transactions was published under the visionary editorship of Henry Oldenburg, who was also the Secretary of the Society. The first volumes of what was the world's first scientific journal were very different from today's journal, but in essence it served the same function; namely to inform the Fellows of the Society and other interested readers of the latest scientific discoveries. As such, Philosophical Transactions established the important principles of scientific priority and peer review, which have become the central foundations of scientific journals ever since. In 1886, the breadth and scope of scientific discovery had increased to such an extent that it became necessary to divide the journal into two, Philosophical Transactions A and B, covering the physical sciences and the life sciences respectively.

http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/

The Parzival-Project

In a project based at the University of Basle and sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation our research team is preparing the ground for a new electronic edition of Wolfram's Parzival. At present we are concentrating on selected parts of the first, third, ninth and sixteenth book of the poem. Our medium-term goal is the edition of a greater coherent section, e.g. books 1 and 2 (the Gahmuret story), which will be published in parallel, in an electronic and in a printed version. We are in contact with other digital projects as for instance David Yeandle's project of a Parzival-bibliography (King's College London).

Im Rahmen eines von der Berner Hochschulstiftung, dem Schweizerischen Nationalfonds und der Freiwilligen Akademischen Gesellschaft Basel geförderten Projekts arbeitet unser Forscherteam seit August 2001 an einer solchen elektronischen Teilausgabe. Vorerst konzentrieren wir uns auf ausgewählte Abschnitte aus dem ersten, dritten, neunten sowie dem fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Buch. Mittelfristig ist die Edition eines größeren Teils der Dichtung, etwa der Gahmuret-Vorgeschichte, geplant, die sowohl in elektronischer wie auch in gedruckter Form vorgelegt werden soll. Wir stehen in Kontakt mit anderen Digitalprojekten, so etwa der Stellenbibliographie zu Wolframs 'Parzival' von David Yeandle.


http://www.parzival.unibe.ch/home.html

News: SLUB Dresden - neue Einstiegsseite in die Digitalen Sammlungen

http://www.slub-dresden.de/sammlungen/digitale-sammlungen/kollektionen/

INKA - Inkunabelkatalog

Der Inkunabelkatalog INKA ist kein abgeschlossener Katalog, sondern bietet Zugriff auf verschiedene Dateien eines Datenpools, der sich aus den Exemplarbeschreibungen von Inkunabeln in verschiedenen Bibliotheken zusammensetzt. Der Datenpool wird regelmäßig aktualisiert und vergrößert sich in dem Umfang, wie die am Aufbau beteiligten Bibliotheken neue Daten liefern.
Recherchiert werden kann nach Autor, Titel, beteiligten Personen, wie Kommentatoren, Herausgebern und nach Druckern, das heißt nach den text- bzw. druckspezifischen Angaben. Recherchiert werden kann auch nach bibliographischen Angaben, also Hain, GW usw. Darüber hinaus sind auch die exemplarspezifischen Angaben recherchierbar: Buchbinder und Provenienzen/Vorbesitzer. Die Recherchemöglichkeiten geben den am Projekt INKA teilnehmenden Bibliotheken die Gelegenheit, vorhandene Informationen bzw. Datensätze als Fremdleistung für die eigene Arbeit zu übernehmen.

http://www.inka.uni-tuebingen.de/

I, Librarian - PDF manager for scientific articles

I, Librarian is a PDF manager or PDF organizer, which enables individual researchers or a small group of researchers to create an annotated collection of PDF articles. Users may build the virtual library collaboratively, thus sharing the workload of literature mining. I, Librarian enables smart browsing and fast searching in reference data and PDF files. By installing I, Librarian, you will build your local web site with practical environment for your work with PDF files. You will also gain an advanced tool to mine scientific literature from PubMed, PubMed Central, NASA ADS, arXiv, JSTOR® and HighWire Press®.
Interessantes Programm zur pdf-Organisation:

I, Librarian ist ein kostenloser Service und funktioniert über einen externen Server (Apache): Man kann (scheinbar) beliebig viele PDF's von der eigenen Festplatte oder anderer Hardware hochladen und hier in Sammlungen speichern und organisieren (Zugang dann von allen Rechnern, auf denen das Programm installiert wird).
Mich interessiert v.a. eine gute advanced search function. Die hiesige ist nicht schlecht, aber die Suchfunktion erstreckt sich leider nicht auf den Volltext der PDF's! Die PDF wird über den Arcrobat Reader angezeigt oder über einen internen PDF-Viewer (der ist nicht besonders gut). Acrobat Reader kann aber nicht nach zwei (oder mehr) Ausdrücken suchen, die sich beide (mit einer bestimmten Distanz voneinander) in einem Dokument finden. Wenn ich z.B. nach "philosophy of mind" suchen wollte, dann ginge das mit dem Acrobat Reader nur, wenn ich genau diese Wortfolge eingebe. Es funktioniert hingegen nicht, wenn ich nur "philosophy" und "mind" eingebe.
Diese Funktion, nach Dokumenten zu suchen, in denen zwei oder mehrere Suchausdrücke vorkommen, die nicht unmittelbar aufeinanderfolgen, gibt es zwar in der advanced search function von I, Librarian - diese ist aber auf bestimmte Metadatenbereiche eingeschränkt, etwa das Abstract (hier ohne highlighting function, in der Titelsuche hingegen mit highlighting...).
Wer kennt einen PDF-manager, der über eine nutzerfreundlichere Suchfunktion verfügt?

http://www.bioinformatics.org/librarian/

Vortrag: Alles nur noch Digital? Die Bibliothek der Zukunft. Von Prof. Dr. Ulrich Johannes Schneider

... Die Bibliothek als Ort ist auch in Zukunft nicht gefährdet, selbst wenn die Regale und Bücher verschwinden, die sie einst ausmachten. Im digitalen Zeitalter ändert sich schlicht die Aufgabe der Bibliotheken: Nun bieten sie ihren Nutzern ein Arrangement des Wissens an. Das Lesen eines Buchs sei nicht länger als die kontemplative Versenkung in ein Buch zu verstehen, sondern als die Aufnahme des Wissens, seine Veränderung und erneute Bereitstellung. Die Bibliothek ist nun Ort, nicht Regal mit Büchern. Sie ist die Arbeit des Lesers mit Wissen, im Idealfall ohne Zensur und wirtschaftliche Interessen. So lange Wissen eine soziale Größe bleibt, schließt Schneider seinen Vortrag, so lange sind auch die Bibliotheken als Ort nicht gefährdet, selbst wenn die physischen Bücher weniger werden....

http://www.kulturklassiker.de/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=58:lesen-heute-qdie-digitale-bibliothekq-vortrag-von-ulrich-schneider


Prinzipiell einverstanden mit Schneiders Vorstellungen über die Zukunft der Bibliotheken, aber dass die Bibliothek als physischer Ort erhalten bleiben wird, wage ich doch zu bezweifeln... (PT)

News: Cooperation between Europeana and „Digital Public Library of America“

http://dp.la/2011/10/21/digital-public-library-of-america-and-europeana-announce-collaboration/

http://www.buchreport.de/nachrichten/online/online_nachricht/datum/2011/10/25/das-wissen-der-welt.htm

Bibliotheca Corviniana Digitalis

La creazione piu famosa e splendente della cultura rinascimentale ungherese e la biblioteca di Re Mattia a Buda. La Bibliotheca Corviniana e parte integrante della storia dello sviluppo della civilta ungherese e della storia dei libri e delle biblioteche ungheresi. La Bibliotheca Corviniana non fu mai un museo dei libri ma fu una biblioteca fondata per la collezione di opere grandiose dello spirito umano e per i principi fondamentali che fecero sentire il loro peso sullo sviluppo dell'umanesimo centro-Europeo.

http://www.corvina.oszk.hu/BCD-it/index-it.htm

The Rudolf Steiner Archive

The Rudolf Steiner Archive offers summaries of his books, a catalogue of holdings, many different listings of his lectures (over 6000). We have virtually all of his books in German and English (some in French, Spanish, Norwegian and Russian, too!), and hundreds of lectures, articles and essays for interested readers to contemplate. If nothing else, the topics covered here should make you think — and that is good. We are a research facility ... an oasis of thought ... an adventure in Spiritual Science.

http://www.rsarchive.org/

Konf.: Metadaten und Vokabularien, Graz Nov 24, 2011 – Nov 25, 2011

http://conference.ait.co.at/digbib/index.php/digbib2011/metavok

Bilanz der Frankfurter Buchmesse Form und Inhalt

"...Thema Nummer 1 war der digitale Wandel, denn die Frankfurter Buchmesse ist mittlerweile eine Bühne für die verschiedensten Medienformate..."

http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/288574

Historischer Katalog der Badischen Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe

Dieser Katalog wies bis 1942 die Bestände der Badischen Landesbibliothek nach. Im September 1942 wurde die Bibliothek durch einen Bombenangriff zerstört. Der gesamte Bestand, damals 360.000 Bände, wurde mit Ausnahme der bereits ausgelagerten Zimelien vernichtet. Nur der Katalog wurde gerettet. Er dient heute nicht mehr als Bestandsnachweis, sondern als Quelle wissenschaftlicher Forschung.

http://ipac.blb-karlsruhe.de/

Elektronische Bibliothek Schweiz/ Digital Library Switzerland

E-lib.ch is the Swiss portal for academic information research. It offers a single point of access to the products and services of twenty sub-projects and to the extensive holdings of Swiss university libraries and a

wide range of other institutions. The sub-projects are being carried out by numerous different partners between 2008 and 2012, with financial support from the state.

http://www.e-lib.ch/

Charles Darwin’s Library

Charles Darwin’s Library is a digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin. This BHL special collection draws on original copies and surrogates from other libraries. It also provides full transcriptions of his annotations and marks. In this first release (2011) we provide 330 of the 1480 titles in his library, concentrating on the most heavily annotated books.

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/darwinlibrary

Conf.: THATCamp Switzerland - Lausanne, 11.11-12.11.2011

THAT = The Humanities and Technology Camp:

Here are the key characteristics of a THATCamp:

• There are no spectators at a THATCamp; everyone participates.
• It is small and intimate, having anywhere from 25 or 50 to no more than 100 participants. Most THATCamps aim for about 75 participants.
• It lasts no more than two days.
• It is not-for-profit and inexpensive; it’s funded by small sponsorships (e.g., for breakfast) and by passing the hat around to the participants. Attendance should be free, but attendees can donate to cover expenses if they want.
• It’s informal: there are no lengthy proposals, papers, or presentations. The emphasis is on discussion or on productive, collegial work.
• It is also non-hierarchical and non-disciplinary: THATCamps welcome graduate students, scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, developers and programmers, administrators, managers, and funders; people from the non-profit sector, the for-profit sector, and interested amateurs.
• Participants make sure to share their notes, slides, and other materials from THATCamp discussions before and after the event on the web and via social media.

http://switzerland2011.thatcamp.org/

Konf.: 4. eSciDoc Days 2011, Berlin, 26.10.-27.10.2011

Vom 26. bis 27. Oktober 2011 veranstalten die Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) und FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur die 4. eSciDoc Days in Berlin / Themen u. a.: nachhaltiges Management von Forschungsdaten, Bereitstellung einer Publikationsumgebung für Forschungsergebnisse / Zielgruppen: Wissenschaftler, Informationsspezialisten in Bibliotheken und Rechenzentren und Software-Entwickler.

eSciDoc ist eine Open-Source-basierte eResearch-Umgebung. Hier werden für unterschiedliche Disziplinen Anwendungen und Dienste bereitgestellt, um Forschungs- und Publikationsdaten zusammen mit den zugehörigen Metadaten, Verknüpfungen sowie den Zugangsrechten zu verwalten. eSciDoc, ursprünglich von der Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) und FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur entwickelt, wird von einer wachsenden Community internationaler Organisationen genutzt [...]

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news445461

My Personal Brain

There's a lot of connections in your head, but unfortunately sometimes they don't last. With PersonalBrain, your digital Brain captures all that intelligence for playback just when you need it.
With PersonalBrain you're never more than a few seconds away from any piece of digital information. Web pages, documents, images, notes... From people and projects to ideas and task lists, it's all there in an instant.
Take control by visualizing all your open loops, tasks, and ideas in your PersonalBrain. Syncs makes your ideas and to dos available from your desktop, web browser, or mobile device anytime.

http://www.thebrain.com/

http://www.thebrain.com/support/tutorials/pb6tour

Eyeplorer - a graphical knowledge engine

(Dank an Paul Grice für den Tipp)

Diese Metasuchmaschine ermöglicht das gezielte Auffinden, Visualisieren und Weiterverarbeiten von Informationen im Internet. Besonders bei der Themenwahl und -definition kann es äußerst wertvolle Dienste erweisen!

http://vionto.com/show/

How to utilize EyePlorer for research:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RQHXNPaBsQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQPIPu02lHs

Bethlehem Digital History Project

Honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as one of the "best online resources for education in the humanities", the Bethlehem Digital History Project provides Web access to digitized primary source materials, transcriptions, translations and contextual information relating to the early history of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741 – 1844.

One of the primary goals of this project is to encourage broad or specialized exploration of local, regional and national history. This type of study can be conducted by utilizing the information contained in this site, the vast resources available at various institutions in Bethlehem, as well as the wide array of published works on the subject of Bethlehem's unique history.

http://bdhp.moravian.edu/home/home.html

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a long-term project dedicated to identifying, imaging, and publishing all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865).  After locating the documents, project staff will prepare a high-resolution color digital image of each page.  Working from these electronic surrogates, project editors will create authoritative transcriptions of the documents, markup their structural features according to the guidelines developed by the Model Editions Partnership and the Text Encoding Initiative, and provide explanatory annotations.  The project will then publish the text files, linked to the graphic images of the originals, on a publicly accessible website. 

http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/

History Engine

The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database.

http://historyengine.richmond.edu/

Konf.: III. Tagung Technik und Kultur - Digitalisierung und Bewahrung des digitalen kulturellen Erbes, Karlsruhe, 24.10.-25.10.2011

"Das dokumentarische Erbe, das wir zukünftigen Generationen überliefern, wird primär ein digitales Erbe sein. Die zunehmende Digitalisierung von Informationen und deren Bereitstellung in bevorzugt digitalen Formen bringt jedoch eine hohe Technikabhängigkeit mit sich. Diese Technikabhängigkeit stellt heutige Gesellschaften hinsichtlich der Erhaltung und Überlieferung ihrer digitalen Hervorbringungen vor große und bislang weitestgehend ungelöste Probleme. Dennoch hat die Bearbeitung dieser grundlegenden Problemen und Fragestellungen in Deutschland und anderen europäischen Nationen erst in der letzten Dekade wirklich begonnen.
Nach Wildau (2008) und Köln (2010) kommt die Tagung »Technik und Kultur« dieses Jahr nach Karlsruhe und wird sich gemäß dem Titel »Digitalisierung und Bewahrung des digitalen kulturellen Erbes« den Problematiken, Fragen und Perspektiven der Bewahrung und Überlieferung des digitalen Erbes widmen. Die thematische Breite der eingereichten Beiträge reicht von theoretischen Beiträgen zu kulturwissenschaftlichen, antropologischen bzw. ethischen Fragestellungen der digitalen Überlieferung bis zu praktixnahen Beiträgen zur Digitalisierung sowie zur technischen und semantischen Erhaltung, und damit zur Dokumentation, Restauration, Speicherung und Archivierung digitaler Kunst- und Kulturobjekte in Museen und Archiven.[...]"

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=17466

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

The DPLA planning initiative grew out of an October 2010 meeting at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which brought together over 40 representatives from foundations, research institutions, cultural organizations, government, and libraries to discuss best approaches to building a national digital library. In December 2010, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, convened leading experts in libraries, technology, law, and education to begin work on this problem; a two-year process of intense grassroots community organization, beginning in October 2011 and hosted at the Berkman Center, will result in a realistic and detailed workplan for launching the DPLA, as well as unveiling of a prototype of the system with specially digitized materials.
The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s, but it has not yet materialized. Efforts led by a range of organizations, including the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive, have successfully built resources that provide books, images, historical records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with Internet access. Many universities, public libraries, and other public-spirited organizations have digitized materials that could be brought together under the frame of the DPLA, but these digital collections often exist in silos. Compounding this problem are disparate technical standards, disorganized and incomplete metadata, and a host of legal issues. No project has yet succeeded in bringing these different viewpoints, experiences, and collections together with leading technical experts and the best of private industry to find solutions to these complex challenges. Users have neither coherent access to these materials nor tools to use them in new and exciting ways, and institutions have no clear blueprint for creating a shared infrastructure to serve the public good. The time is right to launch an ambitious project to realize the great promise of the Internet for the advancement of sharing information and of using technology to enable new knowledge and discoveries in the United States.

http://dp.la/

Gedächtnis der Nation

Geschichte lebt durch Geschichten. Durch persönliche Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse. Sie in Interviews einzufangen und für spätere Generationen zu bewahren, ist das Ziel des Vereins UNSERE GESCHICHTE. DAS GEDÄCHTNIS DER NATION. Das bundesweit einmalige Projekt sammelt Erzählungen von Zeitzeugen zu Alltagserfahrungen und zentralen Momenten der deutschen Geschichte. Vor der Kamera berichten Jung und Alt über ihre ganz individuellen Erinnerungen an historische Ereignisse und Entwicklungen. Sie bilden die Mosaiksteine im Geschichtsbild einer Nation und prägen das Selbstverständnis einer Gesellschaft. Erzählen auch Sie uns Ihre Geschichte und werden Teil eines facettenreichen Archivs der Erinnerungen!

http://www.gedaechtnis-der-nation.de/#top

Conf.: Caught up in the Internet – New Ways of Accessing Cultural Heritage/ Ins Netz gegangen – Neue Wege zum kulturellen Erbe, Berlin 17.11.-18.11.2011

The conference deals with the consequences and implications of the information age for libraries, archives, and museums. After a theoretical reflection on the present-day conditions regulating access to knowledge, projects and strategies of presenting our cultural heritage via the internet will be introduced from a variety of different perspectives. In this context, libraries, archives and museums represent traditional memory organizations that brokers and producers of digital knowledge – e.g. Google and Wikipedia – have equipped with novel innovative powers.

Die Konferenz befasst sich mit den Folgen und Auswirkungen des Informationszeitalters auf Bibliotheken, Archive und Museen und wird veranstaltet vom Internet & Gesellschaft Collaboratory, der Deutschen Kinemathek, der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und Wikimedia Deutschland.

http://ins-netz-gegangen.org/

Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv - digital

http://www.bar.admin.ch/archivgut/00945/index.html?lang=de

Digital Library RERO DOC

RERO, acronyme de REseau ROmand, désigne le réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale. Né, voilà plus de vingt-cinq ans, de la volonté de coopération de plusieurs grandes bibliothèques romandes, RERO regroupe aujourd'hui la plupart des bibliothèques universitaires, publiques, patrimoniales et spécialisées des cantons de Genève, Fribourg, Jura, Neuchâtel, Valais et Vaud, ainsi que celles des Tribunaux de la Confédération. RERO gère un catalogue collectif d'environ 220 bibliothèques au service des 50'000 étudiants des 4 Hautes écoles universitaires romandes (universités de Genève, Fribourg, Lausanne et Neuchâtel), de la Haute école spécialisée HES-SO et des Hautes écoles pédagogiques (Vaud, Valais, Fribourg et BEJUNE), et de quelque 280'000 lecteurs inscrits.

http://doc.rero.ch/?ln=en

PsychSpider

PsychSpider indiziert Webseiten psychologischer Institute und Institutionen, Fachgesellschaften und Fachgruppen, Fachbibliotheken, Fachzeitschriften und Homepages, die sich mit Psychologie bzw. psychologischen Themen befassen. Auch werden PSYNDEX, eine Literaturdatenbank für Psychologie, das psychologische Segment von MEDLINE und der Datenbestand des Sondersammelgebiets Psychologie (SSG OPAC) durchsucht.

http://www.zpid.de/PsychSpider.php

Kompetenzzentrum für kulturelle Überlieferung – digital Karlsruhe (KÜdKa)

Am KIT wird in Kooperation zwischen ZAK, Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) und Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung (FhG-ISI)das  „Kompetenzzentrum für kulturelle Überlieferung –digital Karlsruhe“ (KÜdKa) gegründet. Weitere KIT-interne und externe Partner sind eingebunden: IPF (Institut für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung), ITAS (Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse), KIT-Bibliothek, Saai (Südwestdeutsches Archiv für Architektur und Ingenieurbau), STQP (Institut Entwerfen von Stadt und Landschaft), SZM (Studienzentrum Multimedia), ZAR (Zentrum für Angewandte Rechtswissenschaften), NESTOR (Netzwerk für Langzeitarchivierung) und BSZ (Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum-Baden-Württemberg).

http://www.zak.kit.edu/kompetenzzentrum_kulturelle_ueberlieferung.php

Workshop: Historische Dokumente auf dem Weg zum digitalen Volltext, München, 11.10.-12.10.2011

1. Veranstaltung:

Ergebnisse aus der OCR-Forschung: IMPACT Demo Day

Als zentrale Anlaufstelle für die Veranstaltung dient der IMPACT-Blog. Dort werden Interessierte neben den Präsentationen auch "Live"-Berichte vom Workshop und Videomitschnitte der Vorträge finden.

2. Veranstaltung:

Erfahrungen aus der Digitalisierungspraxis: OCR, Volltexte und Präsentationsformen

Als zentrale Anlaufstelle für die Veranstaltung dient der MDZ-Blog. Dort werden Interessierte neben den Präsentationen auch "Live"-Berichte vom Workshop und Videomitschnitte der Vorträge finden.

Conf.: Websites as sources

Digital Humanities Luxembourg (DHLU) 2012 presents two interlinked events taking place in Luxembourg from 20 to 23 March

http://www.digitalhumanities.lu/

Conf.: The Future is Here: Digital Methods in Research and Teaching in History - Digital Humanities at the 2012 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 5-8, 2012

http://blog.historians.org/annual-meeting/1421/the-future-is-here-digital-history-at-the-126th-annual-meeting

http://www.historians.org/annual/2012/index.cfm

Hungarian Digital Image Library

The Hungarian Digital Image Library has been developed by the National Széchényi Library in collaboration with 48 Hungarian libraries in 2008-2009. The development of the continuously expanding digital image collection was funded by the Renaissance Program Office and the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture.

Our aim is to provide access to well-known and less known images within and beyond country borders. The collection interest of the image library apart from the National Széchényi Library’s images comprises digital Hungarica documents descending from different collections, for instance codices, regional history picture collections, postcards, posters and other digital images (like scanned manuscripts).

 

The representative selection has been established for educational, cultural and scientific purposes. The creative use and reuse of the digital images will be supported from time to time with new special services.

By collecting and providing digital images from different collections users get an overview of the cultural heritage preserved in the libraries, and the images can be freely used for learning, acquisition of knowledge and entertainment. Commercial use of the images requires prior permission from the rights holder libraries.

 

 http://www.kepkonyvtar.hu/

Biblioteca Digitale Reggiana

La Commissione delle Comunità Europee, visto il trattato che istituisce la Comunità europea ed in particolare l’articolo 211, raccomanda agli Stati membri di assumere iniziative rivolte a valorizzare, per mezzo di internet, il potenziale del patrimonio culturale europeo e definisce le biblioteche digitali come un aspetto fondamentale dell’im¬pegno ad ottimizzare l’utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie dell’informazione per la crescita economica e la qualità della vita dei cittadini europei. La digitalizzazione del materiale contenuto nelle biblioteche, negli archivi e nei musei rappresenta infatti la condizione per consentire ai cittadini di tutta Europa di accedervi on line e di utilizzarlo a fini di studio, lavoro o svago.

Nel 2001, nell’ambito della III Conferenza Nazionale delle Biblioteche, la Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali ha dato il via al progetto denominato "Biblioteca Digitale Italiana" (BDI) che, in sintonia con analoghi progetti europei ed extraeuropei, mira a promuovere e coordinare le attività di digitalizzazione del patrimonio bibliografico e archivistico italiano.

La Biblioteca Panizzi, consapevole di svolgere nella comunità un ruolo fondamentale sia come agenzia di informazione sia come luogo della memoria collettiva, intende inserirsi in questo contesto con una propria strategia di intervento, mirata in particolare a valorizzare il patrimonio di sapere e di conoscenza che la comunità reggiana ha saputo esprimere nel corso della sua storia.

http://digilib.netribe.it/bdr01/index.jsp

Digitale Sammlungen der Staat- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen/ Digital Collections of the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen

In den Digitalen Sammlungen bieten wir Ihnen den kostenfreien Zugang zu digitalisierten Monografien und Periodika aus dem Bestand der SuUB. Zurzeit wird eine regional-historisch motivierte Auswahl präsentiert. Verwenden Sie die Suche - siehe oben - oder stöbern Sie in den Kategorien der Box "Inhalt" auf der rechten Seite. Alle Titel- und Strukturdaten sowie der in Antiqua gesetzte Volltext sind durchsuchbar.

The Digital Colletions of the SuUB offer access to digitized monographs and periodicals with regional and historical importance.

http://brema.suub.uni-bremen.de/

Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism

GlobeTheoLib aims to:

• use new digital models of information exchange to create greater visibility for theological knowledge and insights from churches of the global South;
• make use of information and communication technologies to counter imbalances in global theological education systems;
• respond to the needs of theological colleges, faculties and institutes for quality resources for theological education and research;
• overcome barriers to accessing existing digital content;
• support and enable well-equipped participation in the teaching of Christian theology, the generation of ecumenical and intercultural perspectives, and the formation of a new generation of ecumenical leaders.

http://www.globethics.net/gtl

Conf.: Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011), Berlin 25.09.-29.09. 2011

The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. For the 15^th year the conference was renamed into:

International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

The conference will continue to bring together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2011 is organised by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, the Computer and Media Services and the Department of Computer Science).

http://www.tpdl2011.org/

Media History Digital Library

The Media History Digital Library digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning.
http://mediahistoryproject.org/

News: Verbände einig über Digitalisierung vergriffener Werke

Europäische Verbände von Rechteinhabern, Autoren und Bibliotheken haben sich auf Prinzipien für die Digitalisierung vergriffener Werke verständigt. Das geistige Eigentum von Rechteinhabern und Autoren soll gewahrt bleiben.

http://www.golem.de/1109/86585.html

Digi20

Die Plattform ermöglicht Ihnen eine Volltextsuche in 4.195 digitalisierten Monographien der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, vorwiegend aus dem geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Fächerspektrum.
Das Angebot wird bis zum Jahr 2014 sukzessive auf rd. 6.400 Titel ausgebaut.
http://digi20.digitale-sammlungen.de/

Digital Library of Slovenia

http://www.dlib.si/?&language=eng

gCube

gCube is a framework dedicated to scientists. It enables the declarative and interactive
creation of transient Virtual Research Environments that aggregate and deploy on-demand
content resources and application services by exploiting computational and storage
resources of a grid infrastructure.
http://www.gcube-system.org/

Early European Books

Early European Books provides scholars with new ways of accessing and exploring the printed record of early modern Europe, drawing together a diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Developed and produced in close collaboration with scholars, rare books librarians, bibliographers, and other experts from the library world, this new resource opens the door to some of the world's most significant collections of early printed books.
All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Early European Books builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO) and is largely concerned with non-Anglophone materials; however, books in English or printed in the English-speaking world that are already represented in EEBO are not omitted from Early European Books where they form an integral element of the predominantly non-Anglophone collections that have been made available for digital capture.

http://eeb.chadwyck.com/marketing.do

ZAPADAY - peeking into the future by text mining

Zapaday is an open news agenda and a global public calendar. Zapaday lets you see the future with day-by-day events, news stories, facts and trivia.

http://zapaday.com/

JSTOR Early Journal Content

Early Journal content in JSTOR is a selection of freely accessible journals published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere. The “Early Journal Content” selection of titles includes "discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR".

http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/individuals/early-journal-content

Books: Die Zukunft digitaler Bibliotheken auf dem Prüfstand

"Digitale Bibliotheken wie die Google Buchsuche sind in den vergangenen Jahren in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika besonders wegen behaupteter Urheberrechtsverletzungen in die Kritik geraten. Diese Arbeit widmet sich der Frage, inwieweit deutsches und amerikanisches Urheberrecht tatsächlich dem Aufbau und Betrieb einer solch kulturell bedeutsamen Bibliothek entgegenstehen. In einer ganzheitlichen Betrachtung des sogenannten Bibliotheks- und auch des Partnerprogramms der Google Buchsuche wird dabei auf verschiedene Legitimationsmöglichkeiten der Nutzungshandlungen eingegangen. Neben der Frage der Anwendbarkeit der Schrankenregelungen werden dabei Probleme der vermeintlich sicheren vertraglicher Rechtseinräumung erörtert. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass zwar teilweise eine Legitimation erreicht werden kann, der vollumfängliche Mehrwert einer digitalen Bibliothek aber allein durch einen Eingriff des Gesetzgebers zu realisieren sein wird."

Zugl.: Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Diss., 2011

http://www.peterlang.de/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=62567&concordeid=262017

Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities

The GCDH handles fund-raising activities, organization, coordination, implementation and support for interdisciplinary research projects in the field of Digital Humanities and its applications, and the Center will also coordinate and maintain cooperative activities with national and international institutions as well as contacts with private-sector partners and research institutions.

Additionally, Digital Humanities infrastructures and services that support research will be developed and maintained.


http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/136017.html

News: Digitale Geisteswissenschaften. Institut für Europäische Geschichte beteiligt an DARIAH

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news440161

Digital Library of India

http://202.41.82.144/

TextGrid 1.0 Release

Seit dem 12. Juli ist es soweit: Nach fünfjähriger Entwicklungsphase steht TextGrid 1.0 nun zum Download bereit. Die bereits aus der Betaversion vom Juni 2010 bekannten Tools - darunter XML-, Metadaten- und Text-Bild-Link-Editor sowie das Wörterbuch-Recherchetool - sind ab sofort in vollem Umfang in einer stabilen Fassung nutzbar. Neu hinzugekommen ist eine Funktion für das Management von Revisionen; umfassend erweitert wurde außerdem das Metadatenschema. Mit dem TextGridLab erstellte Forschungsdaten lassen sich seit dem Update nun auch langfristig im TextGrid Repository publizieren und in andere digitale Publikationskontexte einbinden. Über das neue Portal des Repository sind Inhalte auch unabhängig vom TextGridLab von externen Nutzern abrufbar.

http://www.textgrid.de/startseite/aktuelles/aktuelles-detail/article/textgrid-10-release.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=159&cHash=4b69821de4

Konf.: DigiBibs, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek und biblioteki cyfrowe. Deutsche und polnische digitale Bibliotheken auf dem gemeinsamen Weg in die Europeana

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=17186

digitalculturebooks

digitalculturebooks is dedicated to publishing innovative work in new media studies and the emerging field of digital humanities. It was established in 2006 as an innovative partnership between the University of Michigan Library and the University of Michigan Press with the intent of modeling library-press collaboration at U-M and elsewhere. digitalculturebooks is supported by the skills and expertise of staff throughout MPublishing and is a site of exploration for combining these skills in ways that benefit our authors and our readers. It is also an incubator for developing and testing ideas about new publishing models. digitalculturebooks seeks to explore all aspects of new media and its impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication and will present work that exhibits and advances the understanding of the relationship between humanities and digital technologies. The imprint aspires to both investigate and demonstrate new forms of scholarly practice in the humanities.

 

http://www.digitalculture.org/

D4Science-II

D4Science-II is an European e-Infrastructure project, co-funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. It constitutes a continuation of the DILIGENT and D4Science projects.

http://www.d4science.eu/home

Journal: Literary and Linguistic Computing

Literary and Linguistic Computing is an international journal which publishes material on all aspects of computing and information technology applied to literature and language research and teaching.

Papers include results of research projects, description and evaluation of techniques and methodologies, and reports on work in progress.

http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/

Greenstone - build a digital library

Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM.

http://www.greenstone.org/

AKT - Advanced Knowledge Technologies

The mission of the Advanced Knowledge Technologies consortium is to identify where we can, and invent where we must, the next generation of technologies for organisations to create, manage and extract value from their knowledge assets, and to integrate these technologies to create a complete approach to the knowledge life cycle.
During our research, a number of component technologies have been implemented, exploring the different challenges encountered through the various stages of the knowledge lifecycle.

http://www.aktors.org/technologies/

Khresmoi - medical information analysis & retrieval

Khresmoi aims to develop a multi-lingual multi-modal search and access system for biomedical information and documents. This will be achieved by:

• Effective automated information extraction from biomedical documents, including improvements using crowd sourcing and active learning, and automated estimation of the level of trust and target user expertise
• Automated analysis and indexing for medical images in 2D (X-Rays), 3D (MRI, CT), and 4D (MRI with a time component)
• Linking information extracted from unstructured or semi-structured biomedical texts and images to structured information in knowledge bases
• Support of cross-language search, including multi-lingual queries, and returning machine-translated pertinent excerpts
• Adaptive user interfaces to assist in formulating queries and display search results via ergonomic and interactive visualizations

http://www.khresmoi.eu/

Reading old documents

Our range of online tutorials on Latin and palaeography will help you to read documents from the medieval period and beyond, through practical activities and useful examples. We also provide a currency converter so you can compare old money with new.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/reading-old-documents.htm

ACROMEM

ARCOMEM is a EU-funded research project. It is about memory institutions like archives, museums, and libraries in the age of the Social Web. Memory institutions are more important now than ever: as we face greater economic and environmental challenges we need our understanding of the past to help us navigate to a sustainable future. This is a core function of democracies, but this function faces stiff new challenges in face of the Social Web, and of the radical changes in information creation, communication and citizen involvement that currently characterise our information society (e.g., there are now more social network hits than Google searches). Social media are becoming more and more pervasive in all areas of life.

http://www.arcomem.eu/

Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation

A uniquely valuable resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. 

http://solomon.dlcr.alexanderstreet.com/

MyNetResearch

Global collaborations are the key to greater research productivity

Our purpose is to assist you in maximizing your research productivity through global collaborations. We all have outstanding colleagues, yet have felt the disappointment of these colleagues not sharing our research interests and passions.

This is not modern research-at least it's not what research should be in the 21st century. Why be limited to local research collaborations when there are hundreds or even thousands of research experts across the world with whom you could have highly productive collaborations?

Move beyond collaborations of convenience. Create and manage multiple research projects with the perfect global partners using MyNetResearch's powerful tools to aid your research productivity.

What is MyNetResearch?

MyNetResearch is a worldwide online network of academic and corporate researchers with over a thousand knowledge specializations.

When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your research interests and other key information. Your profile helps you find and be located by this worldwide community of researchers. You can search for other researchers by knowledge specialization, geography and other attributes while creating and managing projects including academic papers, funded grant proposals and inventions. MyNetResearch is located in the United States. 

http://www.mynetresearch.com/

Open Directory Project

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

The web continues to grow at staggering rates. Automated search engines are increasingly unable to turn up useful results to search queries. The small paid editorial staffs at commercial directory sites can't keep up with submissions, and the quality and comprehensiveness of their directories has suffered. Link rot is setting in and they can't keep pace with the growth of the Internet.
Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet, the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of net-citizens. These citizens can each organize a small portion of the web and present it back to the rest of the population, culling out the bad and useless and keeping only the best content.

http://www.dmoz.org/

MedHist

MedHist is a free catalogue of evaluated, high quality Internet resources and websites relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the history of health and development of medical knowledge. It is aimed at students and staff working within the further and higher education sectors, although it will also appeal to anyone with a general interest in the subject area.

 

http://www.intute.ac.uk/medhist/

AcademicInfo

AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with a plethora of online degrees, online courses and distance learning information from a selection of online accredited schools. Our mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers).

http://www.academicinfo.net/

digitalMETRO

The digitalMETRO directory is intended to provide increased discoverability and access to online collections created and maintained by member libraries of the Metropolitan New York Library Council.

http://nycdigital.org/

The March/April issue of D-Lib Magazine features a case study on the open source collection management system, Omeka, used to create METRO's digital collections directory, digitalMETRO. Omeka was used as a test to determine the viability of this platform for member libraries interested in using Omeka to build and deliver their own collections. The paper addresses Omeka's strengths and weaknesses as a software platform for creating and managing digital collections on the web. The analysis includes an examination of original record creation and the extensibility of the system through the use of plug-ins.

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march10/kucsma/03kucsma.html

Die Zukunft der Bibliotheken - Traditionelle versus neue Formen der Dokument- und Wissensorganisation

Beitrag von S. Gradmann auf "Community of Knowledge" (01.09.2011):

http://www.community-of-knowledge.de/beitrag/die-zukunft-der-bibliotheken/

Internet Archive WayBackMachine

Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

The WWW Virtual Library

The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.

http://vlib.org/

Zeitungsinformationssystem (ZEFYS)

Im Zeitungsinformationssystem (ZEFYS) finden Sie digitalisierte historische Zeitungen, Volltexte und ausgesuchte Internetquellen und Datenbanken zum Thema Zeitung.

ZEFYS weist derzei t über 82.000 Ausgaben von derzeit 83 historischen Zeitungen aus Deutschland und deutschen Zeitungen des Auslands nach.

http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/