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Academic blogging: escaping the ivory tower
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The UC Berkeley alumni magazine California has published an article on academic blogging, with tales of some of the more well-known bloggers of the genre like Brad DeLong, John Holbo, and Dan Drezner.
Vireo Users Group Meeting set for May 19
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TDLThe Texas Digital Library is offering existing and potential users of its Vireo ETD management system an opportunity to gather and discuss the software, as well as other issues surrounding ETD management, at a Vireo Users Group Meeting to be held on the UT Austin campus on Wednesday, May 19, 2010.
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Tags: ETDs, TCDL, Texas ETD Association, user resources, Vireo, Vireo Users Group
Tags: ETDs, TCDL, Texas ETD Association, user resources, Vireo, Vireo Users Group
Journal of Digital Information releases new issue
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The Journal of Digital Information (JoDI), a journal hosted by the TDL Electronic Press, has released a new special issue on Open Repositories 2009.
TDL Metadata Working Group meets at Baylor
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TDLThe TDL Metadata Working Group met on March 17 at Baylor University to discuss progress on its projects for 2010. The mission of the group is to provide general metadata expertise to the TDL community through the development of best practices and communication around trends in metadata development.
Defining “open”
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The library and academic worlds are teeming with various species of openness: open access, open source, open educational resources, and the list goes on. Understanding all these concepts — both how they’re distinct and how they’re related — can be a daunting task.
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UNT Digital Projects Unit creates the UNT Digital Library
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The Digital Projects Unit at TDL member institution the University of North Texas has released the UNT Digital Library, a centralized repository for digital collections held throughout the university’s schools, colleges, departments, and libraries.
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Tags: ETDs, Institutional Repositories, repositories, University of North Texas
Tags: ETDs, Institutional Repositories, repositories, University of North Texas
Challenges of preservation in a digital world
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TDLThe New York Times highlighted the unique challenges of archival preservation of born-digital materials in an article published yesterday.
Digital Preservation Task Force report now available online
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A Blue Ribbon Task Force formed in 2007 to investigate Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has released its final report. You can read the full report here.
TDL and the Texas Water Digital Library
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TDLThe Texas Digital Library (TDL) and its partners have begun the process of developing a new collaborative resource for sharing water data across the state of Texas. That resource, the Texas Water Digital Library, will federate water research from across the state in a TDL-hosted DSpace repository. The repository will create a single place for researchers to search for water data from every region of the state.