I have written before about the problem of privacy in the Internet Age, and things are just getting worse. Over at the informative NYT’s tech blog Bits there is a disturbing post describing how ISP’s (Internet Service Providers) are thinking about possibly monitoring your internet traffic and supplying advertising based upon your internet usage [...]
Two more things from the Internet Archive:
1. Dibre ha-riboth [microform]. Matters of controversy, a rabbinical disputation between Zerahiah ha-Levi and Abraham ben David. Published from a manuscript (unicum) in the possession of the Jewish theological seminary of America (here)
2. A Jewish Calendar for Sixty-Four Years (here- It was printed in London and is from 1838. [...]
As is apparent to anyone who tried to use the links in my recent post on books digitized by Microsoft’s Live Search, accessing digitized books that have been posted online isn’t always very successful. One step towards making it easier is Internet Archive. Internet archive was founded “with the purpose of offering permanent [...]
For those who want to read more about Large-Scale Digitization Initiatives (LSDI’s), there is a recently published white paper here. The summary can be found here. The paper discusses such topics as digital storage quality, access to digital collections, the commercial aspect of many LSDI’s (see more here) and the impact of digital [...]
From JTS publicity:
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New York, NY, February 19, 2008 — The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary announces the launch of a digital library which provides global access to some of Jewish history’s most outstanding treasures.
The purchase of the digital library software (DigiTool) was made possible through the generous support of the Rebell Family Foundation and [...]
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to make available their research to the world at large in an open-access framework.
To assist the University in distributing the articles, each Faculty member will provide an electronic copy of the final version of the article at no charge to the appropriate representative of the Provost’s Office [...]
I was looking up a book in the Columbia University Library catalogue, and I noticed the following news item.
Columbia University and Microsoft Corp. are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and make them available to Internet users. With the support of the Open Content Alliance (OCA), [...]
Many of us have hard drives filled with articles and books in digital format, sometimes never having to leave the comfort of our computer to search through those antiquated “stacks” in libraries for that sought-after book or journal article (see this related post at Seforim). But how many of us have thought of what [...]
Once in a while you come across a book which you say to yourself that you really should read, that it will probably help you understand certain things that you didn’t know before, or look at old truisms in a different light, but often you don’t get around to reading the book. Maybe you’re [...]
As with most of his other writings, Anthony Grafton has written an interesting article in the New Yorker on “Digitization and its Discontents”. Grafton’s bottom-line is that no matter how important 21st c. technologies are for research, and how much they often help academic research, Google Books, JSTOR, et al. will never take the place [...]
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