E.books and Vanity Publishing

March 20, 2005 at 10:06 am · Filed under media

The digirati – Icon – http://www.theage.com.au/technology/

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6 Hour Day Movememt

March 18, 2005 at 4:20 pm · Filed under history

Workers unite to demand the 6 hour day!

As it is next year 150 years since the first eight hour day here in Melbourne, Victoria it seems appropriate that we now demand a 6 hour day!

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Historical Significance and the Internet

March 3, 2005 at 6:49 pm · Filed under history

The increasing importance of the Internet as a publishing and communication medium poses many challenges for the institutional repositories entrusted with the arduous task of preserving and providing access to our digital heritage. But the challenges are not only in terms of creating the technical standards and tools for the preservation of online media, they are also in terms of determining what is historically significant in the first place. It is the notion of historical significance that is discounted in recent debates about preserving the Internet.

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Online Archives

March 2, 2005 at 1:05 pm · Filed under history

Declaration of Independence – Thomas Jefferson (Library of Congress Exhibition)

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AMOL Working with archives and collections

March 1, 2005 at 6:41 pm · Filed under history

AMOL – Collection Management

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Online Archiving

March 1, 2005 at 4:46 pm · Filed under history

The empyre February 2005 Archive by date

There was an excellent forum on the Empyre list about Online Archiving during February with a number of invited guests.

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Online Archives

March 1, 2005 at 3:51 pm · Filed under history

::fibreculture:: [-empyre-]: Paul Koerbin, National Library of Australia – Preserving our online heritage

The Library decided to take a selective approach to archiving web resources since this approach was best able to produce results that met the Library’s charter to collect, describe and make available
Australia’s documentary heritage.

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Online Archives: Selection Criteria for the Pandora Project at the NLA

March 1, 2005 at 2:28 pm · Filed under history

Pandora Archive

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Online Archiving

March 1, 2005 at 1:53 pm · Filed under history

::fibreculture:: Australian digital library projects

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Online Archiving

March 1, 2005 at 1:35 pm · Filed under history

::fibreculture:: CRL, Four U.S. Universities to Undertake Political Web Archiving Investigation

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Online Archiving

March 1, 2005 at 1:33 pm · Filed under history

::fibreculture:: Re: Internet as archive

depends on what we mean by ‘archive’.

If by archive we mean ‘having a place’ – a place where we consign things – then the Internet as a collection of wires and data protocols is not an archive. It is a technology of transfer, or communication.

If, however, we also mean by archive ‘taking place’, as in a theatrical event or a piece of music, then the Internet is an archive. An archive in the sense of a series of ‘events’ shaped and enabled by this technology of transfer. We would not call a blank tape an ‘archive’, and yet it enables and shapes the event we eventually call music. So in the same way, I don’t think we
can distinguish so easily between the technology of the Internet and the information it conveys or transfers.

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Online Archiving

March 1, 2005 at 1:27 pm · Filed under history

Archiving Web Resources – International Conference

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e-democracy

March 1, 2005 at 1:11 pm · Filed under politics

Democracies Online Newswire – Announcements about E-Democracy, E-Government, Politics
Online, and more

this new project site you can:

1. Recommend an E-democracy Project or Strategy
(Best before 31 DEC 2004)
2. Commend an Online Feature or E-democracy Practice
(Best before 24 DEC 2004)
3. Nominate “Most E-democracy Enabled Governments”
4. Nominate “Most Wired Politicians”
5. Share a Local E-Activism Story
6. Join the E-democracy Best Practices Leadership Team
7. Help draft or comment on Briefs and Case Studies
(Honorariums available for accepted topics)
8. Get a preview of the new DoWire blog and wiki system

In particular, we are looking for “undiscovered” e-democracy projects
outside the UK with relevant lessons for the UK local authorities. In
the past, I’ve discovered most leading e-democracy practices
in-person! This is because those
closest to innovation often don’t realize they are ahead or in fact
innovators. Help us uncover the stories and case studies to be told.
Submit suggestions please: http://dowire.org/submit

For updates on this UK Local E-democracy National Project-funded
exploration of global e-democracy best practices, join the 2800+
member Democracies Online Newswire e-mail announcement list and new
blog: http://dowire.org

Additional UK-supported projects that I am involved with:

Enhanced Webcasting – http://www.dowire.org/webcasting
— New online community for public sector webcasters and
multimedia folks

Civic Weblogging – http://readmyday.co.uk/blogs/
— Local government bloggers in the UK

Local Issues Forums – http://e-democracy.org/uk
— Many-to-many citizen forums that matter

For more information on the UK Local E-democracy National Project,
watch these sites and
.

Please forward this message to others or mention key points in
e-newsletters, blogs, etc.

Thanks,

Steven Clift
Democracies Online
http://dowire.org

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Online archiving

March 1, 2005 at 12:47 pm · Filed under history

The Long Now Foundation: links

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Online Archiving

March 1, 2005 at 12:45 pm · Filed under history

international internet preservation consortium – welcome” href=”http://netpreserve.org/about/index.php”> international internet preservation consortium – welcome

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