20.355 D-Lib for December; Abbey Library of St Gall

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 355.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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   [1] From: Bonnie Wilson <bwilson_at_cnri.reston.va.us> (33)
         Subject: December 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available

   [2] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (17)
         Subject: Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online

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         Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:21:28 +0000
         From: Bonnie Wilson <bwilson_at_cnri.reston.va.us>
         Subject: December 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available

Greetings:

The December 2006 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is
now available.

This issue contains three articles, an opinion piece, three
conference reports, the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press
releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of
interest in 'Clips and Pointers'. This month's featured collection
is "The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online" contributed by John
van Wyhe, University of Cambridge.

The articles include:

Using the Audit Checklist for the Certification of a Trusted Digital
Repository as a Framework for Evaluating Repository Software
Applications: A Progress Report
Joanne Kaczmarek, Patricia Hswe, Janet Eke, and Thomas G. Habing,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model
for Contribution and Use
Cathryn A. Manduca, Sean Fox, and Ellen R. Iverson, Carleton College

The Melvyl Recommender Project: Developing Library Recommendation Services
Colleen Whitney and Lisa Schiff, California Digital Library

The opinion is:

Jean-Noel Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book
Digitization and Digital Library Policy
David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics

The conference reports include:

Snapshots of the National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting:
October 18 - 20, 2006, Washington, DC
Brad Edmondson, ePodunk.com, and Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University

The Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX)
J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

IPRES 2006 Conference Report: Digital Preservation Takes Off in the
E-Environment
Cindy Boeke, The American Society for Cell Biology

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         Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:22:24 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online

Abbey Library of St. Gall, Switzerland online

- free access: <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en>www.cesg.unifr.ch
- high resolution digital images: over 52'000 facsimile pages
- regularly updated: now 131 complete manuscripts
- manuscript descriptions and many search options
- accessible in
<http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/de>German,
<http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr>French,
<http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/en>English and
  <http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/it>Italian

Please recommend it to your colleagues and put a link to CESG on your
  homepage.

CESG - Codices Electronici Sangallenses

Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities
Computing | Centre for Computing in the
Humanities | King's College London | http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/
Received on Sat Dec 16 2006 - 06:40:26 EST