About MuseumBlogs.org
MuseumBlogs.org is a directory of museum and museum-related blogs as well as a space for re-postings and roundups. The purpose of the site is to raise awareness and increase the authority of blogs focusing on museum issues. Authority is used by search engines to filter results. The more links, the more authority and more visible a blog will become.
The Directory
A publicly editable, moderated directory provides a central website for listings to museum and museum-related blogs.
The Blog
We encourage re-posting from qualified blogs and bloggers. The aim of MuseumBlogs.org is to drive visitors to other museum blogs and increase their authority. If you're interested in re-posting or creating roundups which focus on the museum blog world, please feel free to contact us for password and log in information.
Who and Why?
This site was developed by Ideum. We're a small design company that develops interactive exhibits and websites for museums. The idea for MuseumBlogs.org came about after we developed a survey of museum blogs & community sites in March of 2006. One of the major outcomes was that the vast majority of museum blogs lack authority which was covered in a follow up post on the Ideum blog. It's our hope that MuseumBlogs.org will help increase communities’ awareness and authority.
Policies
MuseumBlogs.org is run as a public service and encourages community participation. The site does not accept commercial advertising of any kind.
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September 22nd, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The National Library of Scotland has a nice guide to its collection of Early Maps of Scotland Before 1850, include links to maps that have been digitized and/or treated as distinct collections such as the Pont Maps Web Site, representing maps created by Timothy Pont in the 1580s and 1590s, and
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September 11th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Interested in the future of institutional or digital repositories. Repository Fringe 2008, an event held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, has released available presentations and streamed video for your downloading and viewing pleasure and edification.
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August 7th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
With the assistance of a 2007 grant from the University of British Columbia Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s BC History Digitization Program, the Vancouver Public Library has mostly completed work on its project to digitize its collection of BC and region city directories dating between 1860 and 1901. Though not always
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July 8th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
Hope you get my drift pardner. According to this Information Today Newsbreak (02008 07 07),
Missouri has launched a free collaborative search portal that integrates millions of historical documents from the state’s local libraries, universities, and cultural institutions in a single web gateway. Powered by Deep Web Technologies’ Explorit Research Accelerator
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June 26th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The American Geographical Society Library launched a new digital collection titled simply Tibet that consists of historical photographs and maps from its holdings. The digital collection is hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a new addition to the AGSL Digital Collections Portal.
For more historical photographs of Tibet see The
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June 25th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
The third issue of the Code4Lib Journal has some articles on digital preservation and digital archiving.
Source: WEB4LIB mailing list, 02008 06 24
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June 15th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 06 14):
Adding value to data - Digital Repositories in the e-Science world Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/)
December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA
An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net)
There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science…
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June 14th, 2008 by AutoAggregator
According to the June 02008 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter, the Library of Congress and the California Digital Library “have jointly developed a format for transferring digital content. ‘BagIt’ is based on the concept of ‘bag it and tag it,’ where digital content is packaged (the bag) along with a
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