Comments on: Isn’t Google digitising everything anyway? http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/isnt-google-digitising-everything/ Sun, 20 May 2012 22:58:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Doni http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/isnt-google-digitising-everything/#comment-1552 Doni Thu, 10 May 2012 04:15:12 +0000 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/?p=262#comment-1552 PaulI'd go for simple (notice my renruricg theme here..):1. sweet urls, unlike the one posted above which stretched about 4 foot off the rhs of the page 2. RESTful data sourcing3. XML template delivery (ie, have key pages such as search results delivered using a programmed rather than visual template) a kind of poor man's API4. RSS, and possibly programmable RSS (for example, surfacing search results by adding query parameters to the feed address, etc)Personally I wouldn't bother with the deep stuff like OAI, but that's me. I like simplicity and don't like things I don't understand..taMike PaulI’d go for simple (notice my renruricg theme here..):1. sweet urls, unlike the one posted above which stretched about 4 foot off the rhs of the page 2. RESTful data sourcing3. XML template delivery (ie, have key pages such as search results delivered using a programmed rather than visual template) a kind of poor man’s API4. RSS, and possibly programmable RSS (for example, surfacing search results by adding query parameters to the feed address, etc)Personally I wouldn’t bother with the deep stuff like OAI, but that’s me. I like simplicity and don’t like things I don’t understand..taMike

]]> By: John williams http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/isnt-google-digitising-everything/#comment-116 John williams Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:27:46 +0000 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/?p=262#comment-116 Opinions vary, but it is probably fair to say that more than 95% of the world books, magazines, newspapers, videos, films, documents still lay hidden in archives and <a href="http://www.unippm.co.uk" / rel="nofollow">library music</a>, inaccessible in digital form. Opinions vary, but it is probably fair to say that more than 95% of the world books, magazines, newspapers, videos, films, documents still lay hidden in archives and library music, inaccessible in digital form.

]]> By: Gary Price http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/isnt-google-digitising-everything/#comment-17 Gary Price Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:59:02 +0000 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/?p=262#comment-17 Hello from Washington DC. Last night we posted on ResourceShelf that the California Digital Library has now digitised 3 million books. http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61579 Here are just a few of many other digitisation projects we've posted about in 2010: + George Bernard Shaw Photos http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60391 + William Faulkner Audio Archive http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/59628 + A project underway and will launch in January, 2011 is the digitisation of the President John F. Kennedy archives. Text and various types multimedia are being digitised. http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/59438 Hello from Washington DC.

Last night we posted on ResourceShelf that the California Digital Library has now digitised 3 million books.

http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61579

Here are just a few of many other digitisation projects we’ve posted about in 2010:

+ George Bernard Shaw Photos
http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60391

+ William Faulkner Audio Archive
http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/59628

+ A project underway and will launch in January, 2011 is the digitisation of the President John F. Kennedy archives. Text and various types multimedia are being digitised.
http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/59438

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