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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Tag Archives: Internet Archive
RECAPing PACER
PACER is the online access portal for “U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide”. Because the documents it provides are created by the federal judiciary, they are not copyrightable; because PACER is the only place to obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Government, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged appellate court, Bankruptcy court, federal government, firefox, Government, Internet Archive, Legal research, Open Access, Open Source, PACER, Public records, RECAP, United States copyright law
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Using Our Time Wisely
Karen Coyle wrote an excellent post about OCLC’s delayed implementation of the records licensing policy. An exerpt: Those of us who promote open access must use this time wisely. First, we need to get some solid legal advice. It’s clear … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Libraries, Licensing, OCLC
Tagged data stored in their systems, Internet Archive, Karen Coyle, OCLC, OCLC Records Use Policy, Open Library, records
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Death of a Digitization Project
Microsoft announced today that they are shutting down their book digitization project. They also announced that the Live Search Books site will be shut down sometimes next week. This is a disappointment in that I was hoping that the competition … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, News
Tagged Google, Internet Archive, Microsoft, Project Microsoft
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Book Scanning at the Internet Archive
Wired.com has a great set of photographs detailing the process that goes into scanning books for the Internet Archive’s text project. The process isn’t what I envisioned… I expected something that would look like it came from the radiology department … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Open Access, Photography
Tagged Canon EOS, Canon EOS 1D, Canon EOS-5D Digital Camera with 24-105mm Lens, digital cameras, Internet Archive
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Zotero Commons
Kind of an interesting application of the Zotero add-on for Firefox : the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (no relation ) and the Internet Archive are working to create a storage for scholarly annotation of … Continue reading
Internet Archive exempt from DMCA
According to a press release, the Internet Archive has been granted an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), allowing it to continue archiving web sites, software and such. Hopefully this is the movement towards more reasonable copyright applications … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Internet Archive, Internet Archive exempt, reasonable copyright applications
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Internet Archive times 3
All right then, begin the list: 1) An article spotted in this morning’s paper that offers a great summary for those not familiar with the archive: Content of Dead Sites Lives in Archive . 2) They earned a 2006 Education … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Search, Video, WebSearch
Tagged Archive, Internet Archive, Internet Archive times
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Libre Map Project is Liberated!
The Libre Map Project had a goal of raising $1600 to fund their project. Once that goal was met, they would open their collection of maps to the world. They met their goal… in less than 24 hours. Now the … Continue reading