Overview of content related to 'intellectual property'

IMPACT Conference: Optical Character Recognition in Mass Digitisation

editor — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Lieke Ploeger, Yola Park, Jeanna Nikolov-Ramirez Gaviria, Clemens Neudecker, Fedor Bochow and Michael Day report from the first IMPACT Conference, held in The Hague, Netherlands on 6-7 April, 2009.

ECDL2004: 4th International Web Archiving Workshop, September 2004

editor — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:00:00 +0000

Michael Day reports on the 4th International Web Archiving Workshop held at the University of Bath in September as part of ECDL 2004.

An annual Web archiving workshop has been held in conjunction with the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) since the 5th conference, held in September 2001 [1]. The University of Bath, UK hosted the 4th workshop in the series - now renamed the International Web Archiving Workshop - on 16 September 2004 [2]. Julien Masanès of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) welcomed around 60 delegates to Bath to listen to ten presentations and hoped that these would prompt much useful discussion.

Metadata: E-print Services and Long-term Access to the Record of Scholarly and Scientific Research

editor — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:00:00 +0000

Michael Day looks at the long-term preservation implications of one of the OAI protocol's potential applications - e-print services.

In the April 2001 issue of D-Lib Magazine, Peter Hirtle produced an editorial highlighting the potential for confusion between the standards being developed by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) [1] and the draft Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) [2]. He noted the frustration that can ensue when words that have a clearly understood meaning in one domain begin to be used by others in a different way.

Review: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure

editor — Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Day reviews the book by Christine Borgman: From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure.

Christine L. Borgman, From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure: access to information in the networked world. Cambridge, Mass., London: MIT Press, 2000. xviii, 324 pp. £27.95. ISBN 0-262-02473-X.

Metadata: Preservation 2000

editor — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Day reports on the Digital Preservation conference held in York in December 2000.

The Cedars conference, "Preservation 2000: an International Conference on the Preservation and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials," was held at the Viking Moat House Hotel in York on 7-8 December 2000. There were over 150 participants, about one half from outside the UK. As a prelude to the conference proper, a one-day workshop entitled "Information Infrastructures for Digital Preservation" was held at the same venue on the 6 December. This workshop mostly concerned preservation metadata and attracted over 70 participants.

Metadata for Digital Preservation: An Update

editor — Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Day discusses 'Metadata for Digital Preservation'.

In May 1997, the present author produced a short article for this column entitled "Extending metadata for digital preservation" [1]. The article introduced the idea of using metadata-based methods as a means of helping to manage the process of preserving digital information objects. At the time the article was first published, the term 'metadata' was just beginning to be used by the library and information community (and others) to describe 'data about data' that could be used for resource discovery.

Metadata: Image Retrieval

editor — Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

Introduction

Image-based information is a key component of human progress in a number of distinct subject domains and digital image retrieval is a fast-growing research area with regard to both still and moving images. In order to address some relevant issues the Second UK Conference on Image Retrieval - the Challenge of Image Retrieval (CIR 99) was held in Newcastle upon Tyne on the 25 and 26 February 1999 [1]. Participants included both researchers and practitioners in the area of image retrieval.