Last week I attended a lecture titled “Computing and the Practice of History” by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. … More…
CDLINFO News: Message from the Executive Director
The Progress of Preservation
I was very pleased by the nice recognition from Library of Congress’s “Top Ten Digital Preservation Developments of 2012” of three projects CDL has been involved in: The DataUp Project. … More…
DataCite Turns One
Recently I attended the General Assembly of DataCite, the international organization devoted to providing a reliable means of citing research data. The organization has made remarkable progress in a … More…
The Scholar’s Library is Global
There has been much talk of late about the need for and possibility of creating a National Digital Library (see the call by Robert Darnton and one response by Roy … More…
Uncommonly In Common
Colleagues from JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Rachel Bruce and Neil Jacobs visited CDL on October 29. We have often met with various representatives from JISC who have been … More…
Welcome to CDL’s remodeled web site
Redesigning a web site has much in common with remodeling a house. It takes longer than you anticipate, you find unexpected challenges along the way, and in the end, you … More…
