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From the University of Michigan, a stinging rebuke of publishers: You may have heard about University of Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman's speech to the Association of American Publishers, titled "Google, the Khmer Rouge and the Public Good," but it's certainly worth reading the full speech at the school's website. UMich is one of the major universities cooperating with...; Tags: Khmer Rouge, Google Inc., University of Michigan, preservation; Blog posts 2006-02-10
CRiB: A Service Oriented Architecture for Digital preservation Outsourcing: This paper identifies some of the most prominent issues present in nowadays digital repository systems, which hinder the long-term preservation of digital materials. In order to address some of those issues, this paper proposes the CRiB system, a Service Oriented Architecture SOA supported by Web services' technology, which will enable...; Tags: SOA, Preservation, Outsourcing, Migration, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-01-17
Media Choices for the preservation of Digital Documents: On any given desk, stacks of diskettes and CDs compete for space with the piles of paper. Among paper records there is certainty about whether the information contained by the paper is intact because one immediately recognizes its integrity with a quick glance. In contrast, information on diskettes and CDs...; Tags: Diskette, University Of Calgary, Artifact, Preservation; White papers 2005-10-15
Building State Government Digital preservation Partnerships: A Capability Assessment and Planning Toolkit: Regardless of the type and complexity, all these initiatives are made less difficult when participating organizations have high levels of digital preservation capability. Therefore, decisions to invest in digital preservation initiatives must be grounded in a full understanding of the ability of those involved to identify and fill the gaps...; Tags: Partnership, Albany, Preservation, Records Management, Government, Managerial Accounting, Business Structures, Finance; White papers 2005-08-24
Using Hard Disks for Digital preservation: The LOCKSS system is a tool librarians can use to preserve long-term access to content published on the web. It has three main functions. It collects the content by crawling the publisher's web sites, it distributes the content by acting as a proxy for reader's browsers, and it preserves the...; Tags: Hard Drive, Preservation, LOCKSS System, Productivity; White papers

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Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7: Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7It is standard MS modus operandiAnd it isn't working anymore. 2010?!? Who's going to wait that long? By 2010, there won't be any Windows Mobile devices anymore. It will be all Blackberry and iPhone.phone-pc communication--a step backwardsI admit that windows synchronization between phone (or...; Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, RE:It, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, PC-phone connectivity, PC-phone, phone, PC, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
Mac online backup that works: Windows users have many online backup choices: Carbonite, Mozy and more. Windows small and medium business users have even more, like Amerivault. Mac users - not so much. Until now. A long and winding road I started working with Mozy's Mac client a year ago, blogged...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, EMC Corp., Mozy, Data Preservation, Security Mozy, Backups, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-05-05
A 2-billion-year window into the Earth: An international team of researchers has discovered 2 billion-year-old unaltered rocks on the ocean floor during two North Pole expeditions. Their findings led them to conclude that the Earth' mantle history is more complex than previously thought. The researchers were astonished to find rocks that had not been remixed inside...; Tags: Researcher, Window, Rock, Team Management, Construction, Wiki, Management, Online Communications, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-14
Friday Rant: Let XP die!: Friday Rant: Let XP die!I don't see any need to upgrade or downgradeThere's nothing wrong with XP, and there's nothing wrong with Vista. If XP is working for you on the hardware you have, then there's no real need to upgrade to Vista. If you need new hardware or simply...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Let XP, Friday Rant; Discussion threads 2008-04-04
Which way is the wind blowing? Toward Europe says wind study: Which way is the wind blowing? Toward Europe says wind studySide effect of wind farms: Lots of dead birdsThe big problem with wind farms, is the amount of birds that it kills on a daily basis. Drive near any wind farm, and you will see the unfortunate...; Tags: turbine; Discussion threads 2008-03-30
How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3F: How+hard+is+it+to+violate+the+GPL%3FThat's a better way of looking at it.Compared to yesterday's piece, this is a much more informed look at the supposed issue.I agree that changes that are made to a GPL code base should, in the spirit of the license all of them, be given back. Your use of...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL; Discussion threads 2008-02-19
Get Resources tool (exe): The GetResources tool is a network resource extraction tool. It can extract all network resources, include all Web text, picture, music, film, flash, and now the popular Flv file. That is Flash Video Film,and Preservation Website, Web snapshot, all network resources. See also can be save, The software can also...; Tags: Network, Resource, Tool, Zhang Jian, GetResources Tool, Productivity, Networking; Software downloads 2008-02-15
Tech idiocy in the White House: Not only has the White House lost 5 million emails - or not, they aren't sure - vital White House emails have for years been run through an insecure 12-man ISP in Chattanooga Tennessee. Why? Because our laws around Presidential records preservation are at odds with other laws against partisan...; Tags: Internet, White House, IT Team, E-mail, Online Communications, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-02-05
The GIMP and thin clients: The GIMP and thin clientsGimpShop and TipsGimpShop is a reworking of the GUI front end that makes a transition from photoshop easy and I would also assume the reverse direction.On the server side, you can optimize Gimp preferences. Reduce the Maximum undo memory from default 64 MBytes/client, reduce the...; Tags: Servers, GIMPshop, thin client, server, GIMP, DXPC; Discussion threads 2008-01-28
Universe Point - ION (exe): ION is an easy to configure, fully-featured, automated backup software. It allows Site-to-Site transfer, provides File Structure Preservation and, with a subscription to our monitoring service, you will always be sure its working.; Tags: Monitoring, ION, Backups; Software downloads 2008-01-25
Bush deleted email archive system, recycled backup tapes: If I may give some props to the Times of London's Bugle podcast, the White House has finally embraced an environmental agenda by recycling data backup tapes. No need to clog up the works with dusty old emails about leaking Valerie Plame's name to reporters or planning for the Iraq...; Tags: Backup, Backup Tape, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-01-22
This old (green) house: I have a confession to make: I am a preservationist. I'm nuts about old houses with stories to tell and atmosphere to spare, a passion that may seem at odds with my green leanings. Give me Newport, Rhode Island, with its Anglo-estate-envy or Cape May, with her...; Tags: Fact, Green, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-01-13
Strategies for Active Content Collection and Archiving With Symantec Enterprise Vault and Guidance EnCase: Archiving simplifies and automates the collection of electronically stored information to support E-discovery and internal investigations but what about content that has never been archived? Discovery requests can expand beyond archived content to include active content on the desktop, file systems and other free-range content. As a result, E-discovery strategy...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Archiving, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management; Webcasts 2008-01-10
Gore's a wh: Gore's a whSea level propertyMany people including journalists always seem to make the same mistake when describing "global warming" skeptics. You see they are not skeptical that global warming is occurring they are skeptical that the global warming is manpeople made.I am in no position to judge the science...; Tags: global warming, government; Discussion threads 2008-01-02
Lanier's attack on open source religion: Jaron Lanier's broadside against "open source religion" in Discover Magazine was well-timed. The turn of the year, and the evident turning of an era, offers a great time to see the success, and possible excesses, of the open source ideal with fresh eyes. Lanier...; Tags: Innovation, Library, Attack, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-31