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Zepheira and Partners to speak at 2011 Semantic Technology Conference
Zepheira team members and partners will be speaking at the 2011 Semantic Technology Conference to be held in San Francisco June 5-9. Talks will highlight practical applications of linked data technologies in collaboration with the Library of Congress and MIT: Closing Keynote: Semantic Technology at the Library of Congress: Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic [...]
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 to support MIT, Zepheira work on Exhibit 3.0
On behalf of the original Simile team, Zepheira is pleased to announce the launch of a new “Exhibit 3.0″ project which will build on the success of the current Exhibit tool but redesign it to be far more scalable, flexible and modular. The Exhibit 3.0 home page provides the following overview of the project: “Exhibit [...]
Eric Miller to give Vision Session on Linked Data and Libraries at NASIG 25th annual conference
The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) 25th Annual Conference will be held on June 3-6, 2010 in Palm Springs, California. Eric Miller from Zepheira will be providing the Vision Session on Linked Data and Libraries. The presentation will provide an overview of Linked Data and highlight several relevant, practical examples of this work. Past, present and future directions of Linked Data, specifically in the area of libraries, will be discussed. This presentation will conclude by suggesting some strategic and symbiotic areas of work that will help libraries leverage the potential of the Web and highlight how the Web will benefit from library science principles and practice.
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.
Eric Miller to present Recollection at National Archives
Eric Miller will be speaking about Recollection on 17 November, 2009 at the ‘The Semantic Web: Fact or Myth?’ Conference co-sponsored by CENDI, FLICC and NFAIS and held at the National Archives.
Zepheira Announces Callimachus, Semantic Web Apps Made Easy
Zepheira announces Callimachus, an Open Source Software project to allow Semantic Web applications to be easily made by Web authors.
Project Recollection Receives “Best in Show” for ECDL Poster Sessions
The Library of Congress began a pilot project in 2009 with Zepheira, LLC to develop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and explore information about digital collections. The result is a software platform called Recollection. Project Recollection was presented by Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives for The Library of Congress, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira at the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries held in Corfu, Greece September 27 – October 2, 2009. The project was awarded “Best Poster” for the conference. View the session poster and the award posted on the ECDL 2009 site.