Barney Cam 2006 (QT):

The barney cam, the only thing that this president actually gets right

The Rejection of D-Space: Selecting Theses Database Software at the University of Calgary Archives:
This article by Lisa Atkinson of the University of Calgary Archives describes their decision to abandon DSpace for their ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) platform. Richard Jones of Imperial College London has prepared a rebuttal to Lisa’s criticisms.

Update (2006-12-19): The University of Calgary has reevaluated DSpace and is intending to use it as an ETD platform.
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I teach dspace, despite its myriad of issues, to my students. I will be combining it with Digital Curation this spring I think. It should be fun.

It’s a Cool Yule (Log):
For many years, growing up in New York, the Yule Log on WPIX-TV (now a CW station) was a Christmas tradition. We didn’t have a fireplace and this was the next best thing. Begun in 1966 at the New York television station by Fred Thrower, general manager of the station, as a gift to his viewers. It started as a three-hour broadcast on Christmas Eve, lasting four years until the tape wore out and had to be replaced. In later years it was reduced to two hours and then moved in Christmas morning. Finally in 1989, the Yule Log was canceled. In 2001, to help a recovering city, the Yule Log returned to the airways and is now also living on the web.
http://www.theyulelog.com/htmls/flashwelcome.html

Mass Digitization for art libraries and special collections:
The Alfred P. Sloan foundation has granted $1 million to the Internet Archive for digitization in 5 US institutions to boost the materials available in the Open Content Alliance (OCA).
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This is great news

thesecretmirror.com » Blog Archive » The State of Open Source Archival Management Software:
The State of Open Source Archival Management Software

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a nice analysis from the secret mirror.

Springer Book on Wikis free to download:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-29267-8/

In English

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I’ve not read this yet, but it looks like a good howto-type outline.