This national network of partners has already preserved a substantial amount of our digital cultural heritage, including among other things; geospatial information, web sites, audio visual productions, images and text, and materials related to critical public policy issues. As this set of preserved materials continues to grow it has become all the more apparent that we need tools that provide ways for users to discover and access those distributed collections.

To this end, NDIIPP has collaborated with Zepheira to create Recollection, a free platform for generating and customizing views, (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow NDIIPP partners and their users to better explore and understand these growing digital collections.

Read Part 2 of the case study which describes the way in which Recollection supports the NDIIPP community and the future role Recollection will serve in the Library’s digital preservation strategy.

For more, read Part 1 of the case study which describes the Recollection platform and its use of linked data principles to empower curators of digital content.

In 2008, the NDIIPP partners shared content through a simple static web page constructed manually by Library staff. In order to explore more dynamic and useful tools and processes for sharing their collections of diverse content, the Library began a pilot project in 2009 with Zepheira. The result is a software platform called Recollection.

Read Part 1 of the case study which describes the Recollection platform and its use of linked data principles to empower curators of digital content.

For more read Part 2 of the case study which describes the way in which Recollection supports the NDIIPP community and the future role Recollection will serve in the Library’s digital preservation strategy.

The presentation highlighted the collaborative work between the Library of Congress and Zepheira on Project Recollection. Project Recollection is a software platform that allows archival communities to easily publish, style, connect and share digital collections on the Web. The initial pilot work is being performed in support of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).

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 to explore more useful tools and processes for sharing diverse content across partners’ collections, the Library began the Project Recollection Pilot in 2009 with Zepheira, LLC to develop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and explore information about digital collections.

View the session poster and the award posted on the ECDL 2009 site.

The presentation will highlight the collaborative work between the Library of Congress and Zepheira on Project Recollection. Project Recollection is a software platform that allows archival communities to easily publish, style, connect and share digital collections on the Web. The initial pilot work is being performed in support of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP).

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 to explore more useful tools and processes for sharing diverse content across partners’ collections, the Library began the Project Recollection Pilot in 2009 with Zepheira, LLC to develop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and explore information about digital collections.

See the session poster for more information about Project Recollection.

This is a new style of “collective wisdom” books from O’Reilly, the first of which was aimed at software architects.

Tips contributed by David Wood were:

Clever Code Is Hard To Maintain

The 60/60 Rule

The Fallacy Of Perfect Execution

The Fallacy Of Perfect Knowledge

The Fallacy Of The Big Round Ball

The Web Points The Way, For Now

Tips contributed by Kathy MacDougall were:

Chart a Course for Change

Roadmaps: What Have We Done For You Lately?

Tips contributed by James Leigh were:

Provide Regular Time to Focus

Work in Cycles

Use coupon code ABF09 on O’Reilly’s site for a 30% discount when ordering the book.

Presentations for the ALA Grassroots 2009 Grassroots Programs are selected by a jury and intended to highlight current issues and key trends of interest to the library community. Eric Miller from Zepheira will be giving the keynote presentation for the Grassroots Program “From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0″ on July 13th. He will be speaking about using the Web and linked data to connect related information and how this approach is being used by the US Library of Congress’ in their new Recollection Platform to provide more useful tools and processes for sharing diverse content across partners’ collections.

Please join Zepheira who will be leading tutorials on Semantic Service Oriented Architecture (Uche Ogbuji) and Entity Extraction (David Wood and Dan McCreary) on Monday. Followed by Enterprise Mashups (Eric Miller, Kathy MacDougall), Active PURLs: Stored Procedures for the Semantic Web (David Wood) and other talks on Linked Data, Publishing, Semantic Advertising & Marketing, and Semantic Case Studies and Web 3.0.

For details on the speakers and talks, please see the SemTech2009 scheduler using faceted search, see