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Zepheira Case Study: Recollection: Serving Local Preservation Partner Needs through a National Linked Data Platform: Part 2
The Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program works to catalyze and sustain a national network of digital preservation partners. From the beginning of the project one of the key ideas has been that the partnership, now with 185 partner organizations across 45 states, needed to work toward a distributed architecture. To [...]
Zepheira Case Study: Recollection – A Linked Data Platform of Digital Collections: Part 1
The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress is an initiative to develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital content for current and future generations. It is based on an understanding that digital stewardship on a national scale depends on active cooperation between [...]
Zepheira begins new phase of work with Library of Congress on Project Recollection
The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content, especially information that is created in digital form only, for current and future generations. In 2008, the NDIIPP partners shared content through a simple web page. In order [...]
Library of Congress features Recollection view for exploring NDIIPP partner collection
The Library of Congress Digital Preservation initiative has released a new faceted interface to explore over 1400 digital collections preserved by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) partners across the globe. This interface was created using the Recollection platform, a Library of Congress sponsored, open source platform developed by Zepheira for generating [...]
Akara.info site launched for the Akara OSS project
Zepheira has created a main website for Akara in order to help users discover and learn about this open source project. Akara is an open-source (Apache License, Version 2.0) Web framework specialized for RESTful data services, especially involving XML and other semi-structured formats. You express data models and create transforms based on these data models, [...]
Zepheira to speak at “Leadership Through Collaboration” workshop at Smithsonian
OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership planning committee have sponsored a two-day event Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration focused on strategies for effective collaboration. This event will be at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, on September 20-21, 2010. Eric Miller from Zepheira will be speaking on the power of global collaborations providing a [...]
Recollection Workshop held at Library of Congress’ Digital Preservation Partners Meeting
On 20 July, 2010, in Arlington, VA, The Library of Congress held a Recollection workshop at the Digital Preservation Partners Meeting. The well-attended workshop featured an introduction to the digital preservation and access platform and a session where attendees could build Web applications with their own data within thirty minutes and could then showcase these to other workshop participants. Zepheira [...]
Library of Congress holds Digital Preservation Partners Meeting
The Library of Congress will hold the annual Digital Preservation Partners Meeting July 20 – 22, 2010 in Arlington, VA. Themes include “Collaboratives”, “Information Environment” and “Expanding the Archive”. A half day workshop will be held on Recollection, a project with the U.S. Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure Partner Program (NDIIPP) [...]
Zepheira at Museums on the Web 2010
Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Eric Miller from Zepheira will be there to help shape emerging social and technical policies that will enable museums to better contribute to and use Wikimedia Commons as well as present work Zepheira is doing in partnership with the Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) on Recollection, a platform for building communities for distributed curation and data sharing.
Zepheira and Library of Congress Partner at ECDL 2009
Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira will co-present a poster session and demo at the 2009 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) held in Corfu, Greece from 27 September through 2 October, 2009.