Virtual Reference Bibliography Online launched by Rutgers University

Rutgers University's School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies has launched an online version of a digital reference services bibliography originally maintained by Bernie Sloan between 2000 and 2004. The Virtual Reference Bibliography contains over 900 entries "designed to be used by virtual reference (VR) practitioners, researchers, students, and others." The VRBib is directed by Dr. Marie Radford. The site includes a submission form.

Source: DIG_REF mailing list, 02009 04 06

Presentations from Strategies for Multimedia Archives Conference, Belgium, February 02009

BOM-vl, "a research project and consortium supported by the Flemish Government," organized a one-day conference called Strategies for Multimedia Archives: Funds, Users and Context for the Digital Archives of Culture and the Media. Held on February 6, 02009, presentations, including audio, from the conference are available.

Say Hello to MIKE 2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment)

According to its front page,

MIKE2.0 (Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment) is an Open Source methodology for Enterprise Information Management that provides a framework for Information Development. The MIKE2.0 Methodology is part of the overall Open Methodology Framework.

MIKE2.0 is a collaborative effort to help organisations who have invested heavily in applications and infrastructures, but haven't focused on the data and information needs of the business. We believe this has resulted in many of the business problems faced by organisations today around compliance, lack of customer insight, failed transformation programmes and the high cost of technology systems.

MIKE 2.0 runs on an open source application called omCollab.

IMAP Preservation 101 and EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting and Preserving Media Art

The Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP), founded in New York State in 1999, has general information on media preservation in the Preservation 101 section. More specific information, created with Electronic Arts Intermix, about preserving three different kinds of electronic media art forms is found in the EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art.

Long-term preservation of Open Access Journals secured

From the announcement on DIGLIB and other mailing lists (02009 04 01):

The Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) - Lund University Libraries and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) today announced the start of a cooperation in order to secure long-term preservation of open access journals. The Swedish Library Association is generously acting as sponsor.

Long-term preservation of scholarly publications is of major importance for the research community. New formats of scholarly publications, new business models and new ways of dissemination are constantly being developed. To secure permanent access to scientific output for the future, focussed on the preservation of articles published in open access journals, a cooperation between Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ – www.doaj.org), developed and operated by Lund University Libraries and the e-Depot of the National Library of the Netherlands (www.kb.nl/e-Depot) has been initiated.

The composition of the DOAJ collection (currently 4000 journals) is characterized by a very large number of publishers (2.000+), each publishing a very small number of journals on different platforms, in different formats and in more than 50 different languages. Many of these publishers are – with a number of exceptions – fragile when it comes to financial, technical and administrative sustainability.

At present DOAJ and KB carry out a pilot project aimed at setting up a workflow for processing open access journals listed with DOAJ. In the pilot a limited number of open access journals will be subject to long term preservation. These activities will be scaled up shortly and long term archiving of the journals listed in the DOAJ at KB’s e-Depot will become an integral part of the service provided by the DOAJ.