UPDATE 1-John Wiley & Sons to buy Blackwell Publishing | Reuters.com:
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc.
(JWa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) (JWb.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday it agreed to pay 572 million pounds ($1.08 billion) to acquire privately held Blackwell Publishing
Holdings Ltd., an academic and professional publisher. The deal, which is expected to close early in 2007, will create a publisher of about 1,250 scholarly peer-reviewed journals
in areas ranging from science and technology to medicine and the humanities.
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yes, well this is fairly interesting…

“For archivists with strong geeky tendencies”:
Yesterday saw the first meeting of the Data Standards Group of the Society of Archivists under its new name. It was formerly known as the EAD/Data Exchange Group. The new name reflects a new, broader remit for the group, which is now providing a focus for digital preservation as well as data exchange.
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Seems like an interesting bit of work they have going on.