Tag Archives for Digital Content
100 Years of Cinema: New Documentary Series Explores the History of Cinema by Analyzing One Film Per Year, Starting in 1915
Film has played an integral part in almost all of our cultural lives for decades and decades, but when did we invent it? “We have evidence of man experimenting with moving images from a time when we still lived in … Continue reading
What Can Some of the World’s Most Historic Documents Tell Us About the Documents of the Future?
Our history, as individuals and as societies and cultures, is inextricably and necessarily intertwined with documenting things. And despite ever more technology, that will never change. Read More
eLearning Modernization In Higher Education: Case Study
See how a large university migrated eLearning content from old technology to a format consumable by students in the 21st century. Read More
Libraries of the Future Focus on Digital Collaboration and Scholarship
Some big-name libraries have gone digital with their resources. Harvard University Library has also taken advantage of technology to make operations more efficient across the more than 70 Harvard Library units through a new cloud-based tool. Read More
Elsevier Awarded $15M in Lawsuit Against Pirate Sites
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has awarded STM publisher Elsevier $15 million in damages in a copyright infringement judgement against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, online repositories that provide illegal access to millions of pirated … Continue reading
The digital library futures project
“Paul Gooding” describes a joint project looking at the impact of the expansion of legal deposit to include digital material and the challenges that these e-legal deposits pose for the academic sector and its interactions with institutional and regulatory system. Read … Continue reading
Conference Paper: “News Verification Suite: Towards System Design to Supplement Reporters’ and Editors’ Judgements”
The News Verification Suite aims to provide users with a set of functions to verify information in the news. This paper offers a conceptual basis and a vision of system elements towards automated fact-checking in news production, curation, and consumption. … Continue reading
New Legislation To Combat Fake News Likely To Be Introduced Next Year: Shanmugam
New legislation to tackle fake news is likely to be introduced next year, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam on Monday (June 19) during his keynote speech at a conference titled “Keep It Real: Truth And Trust In … Continue reading
Research On Dark Data Analysis To Reduce Data Complexity In Big Data
There is one portion of data within a main data source which is not in regular use but it can help in decision making. This portion is known as “Dark Data”. It is important to find solutions such that dark … Continue reading
The Library of Congress Launches Two New Collections of Archived Web Content: Webcomics Archive and Web Cultures Archive
The two new archives focus on new genres and emergent cultures enabled by networked technologies, and are ongoing collections. Read More