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LoC Uses Linux, Scribe For Archival Digitization

The Library of Congress, where thousands of rare public domain documents relating to America’s history are stored and slowly decaying, is about to begin an ambitious project to digitize these fragile documents using Linux-based systems and publish the results online in multiple formats.

Linux.com | Linux to help the Library of Congress save American history

The project is being built using Scribe, “a software system for the nondestructive scanning and digitization of
books with the Internet Archive’s Scribe machine. The Java UI and PHP
image processing pipeline produce books for www.archive.org and other
digital libraries.”  Maybe we will now see more law libraries and law schools take a serius look at Linux for  digital archive and repository projects.

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What’s Up at Userland?

Scripting News for 3/26/2007 « Scripting News Annex – Wherein Dave ponders the futuer of Userland, its products, and solicits a conversation with the community.  I used Radio for a number of years and moved away only because I wasn’t really using its capabilities. I once wondered what legal educatin would be like if every law student had Radio.  It would certianly be cool.

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Managing Faculty Publications In The Digital Age

Technology increasingly drives the evolving nature of the library’s role in managing faculty publications. Libraries not only create physical archives of faculty scholarship, but take on the active role of facilitating immediate access to content. Trends in legal scholarship, including new formats such as blogs and podcasts and the open access initiatives, compel libraries to develop creative solutions such as enhanced bibliographies, searchable databases, and digital repositories to manage access, preserve, and disseminate faculty writings.

SSRN-The Evolving Nature of Faculty Publications by Jan Novak, Leslie Pardo

Via CMLibraryBlog. Good article with an overview of the ‘state of the art’ of faculty publication in the world of blogs and didgital respositories.

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