Allison Brown

State Records now has draft guidance available to assist you in planning and implementing digitisation projects and programs. Managing digitisation programs and projects is available as an Exposure Draft from now until 27 April 2012. You are welcome to provide feedback on the guidance in this time. - Allison Brown

The Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference will provide a forum to examine the issues surrounding natural and man-made hazards. In recent times we have endured horrific fires in Victoria, devastating earthquakes in New Zealand, heartbreaking flooding in Queensland, NSW and Victoria, damaging cyclones in North Queensland and tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and flooding in many parts of the world. A joint initiative of three 'not-for-profit' organisations - the Australian Institute of Emergency Services, the Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Organisation Inc, and the Association for Sustainability in Business Inc, the conference program will focus on 'PPRR'. Prevention, Preparedness, Response & Recovery and incorporate keynote addresses, concurrent sessions and workshops covering human and social issues, economic and environmental challenges, infrastructure, community and communication topics. - Allison Brown

The CEISMIC Digital Archive is designed to preserve the memories and experiences of people of the Canterbury region. Like the rebuild of our physical city, it’s going to take some years to create this asset. We need you, your stories, your support, your ideas. The CEISMIC project is building federated access to a broad range of earthquake-related research material, gathered by leading New Zealand cultural and educational organizations. This site currently provides links to some great earthquake-related sites where you can submit stories and images, and eventually video too. Our big task now is to create a search function that allows you to find quake-related content in all of our major national institutions, and build a new repository for university researchers to use. We’re casting a net over our existing assets, and building a new one, to give the people of Christchurch and New Zealand a single place to create, remember and research their heritage. - Allison Brown

The goal was to investigate the desirability and feasibility of developing a nonproprietary encoding standard for machine-readable finding aids such as inventories, registers, indexes, & other documents created by archives, libraries, museums, and manuscript repositories to support the use of their holdings. Includes information beyond that which was provided by traditional machine-readable cataloging (MARC) records. Developed requirements for the encoding standard which included the following criteria: 1) ability to present extensive and interrelated descriptive information found in archival finding aids, 2) ability to preserve the hierarchical relationships existing between levels of description, 3) ability to represent descriptive information that is inherited by one hierarchical level from another, 4) ability to move within a hierarchical informational structure, and 5) support for element-specific indexing and retrieval. - Allison Brown

The survey question listed a rather overwhelming 34 choices, 32 of which, according to respondents, are currently in use. Thirty-one additional formats were identified in the “Other” category. The formats run the gamut from obsolete 9-track tapes to current technology such as external hard drives, USB keys and memory cards. Many of the optional additions related to digital audio and video technology, such as audio mini-discs and DVC Pro cassettes. Among the most widely held formats are internal hard disks and servers, the full range of CD and DVD variations (read-only, read, and read-write), and 3.5” diskettes. Most of these formats are still supported in the marketplace, meaning that preservation is more a question of resources than technological wizardry to access the inaccessible. Even readers for 3.5” diskettes can still be purchased as external drives using a USB connection. - Allison Brown

Clickdensity was created by Box UK, a team of 50 experienced web consultants and software developers. Established in 1998, we’ve worked with some of the world’s most recognised and trusted brands, including members of the FTSE 100 and leading public-sector organisations. Our team at Box UK includes some of the most talented developers in the country. We’re experts at delivering user-focused products that really make a difference to our clients’ lives. We work hard to ensure that everything we do represents the highest standards of usability, and our tried and tested approach to quality control means that you can be confident in our services. - Allison Brown

COAR is pleased to announce publication of the briefing, “The Case for Interoperability for Open Access Repositories.” Abstract Open Access repositories, whose number has been steadily rising, are an important component of the global e-Research infrastructure. The real value of repositories lies in the potential to interconnect them to create a network of repositories, a network that can provide unified access to research outputs and be (re-) used by machines and researchers. However, in order to achieve this potential, we need interoperability. The purpose of this paper is to provide a high-level overview of interoperability of Open Access repositories, identify the major issues and challenges that need to be addressed, stimulate the engagement of the repository community and launch a process that will lead to the establishment of a COAR roadmap for repository interoperability. - Allison Brown

Tapas is the TEI Archival Publishing and Access Service for scholars and other creators of TEI data who need a place to publish their materials in different forms and ensure it remains accessible over time. Tapas is also for anyone interested in reading and exploring TEI data, and communicating with those that share that interest. - Allison Brown

AddThis is the world's largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. - Allison Brown

Kanban boards June 16, 2009 in Visual management by Xavier Quesada Allue | 6 comments Here are some examples of Kanban boards I built for a friend. I was not coaching these teams, so I did not have any say on the process. My job was simply to build a board that would reflect their current process, using my Visual Management guidelines. These boards are for a corporate unit that acts as a sort of “enterprise proxy product owner”. They receive business demands from multiple business units, they analyze and classify them, and make a proposal to the customer. They also make recommendations such as build or buy. If the proposal is approved, they send it to development and follow it up into production. - Allison Brown

Alternative Kanban Board Design by Pawel Brodzinski on November 8, 2011 It started with Twitter discussion. Then I followed with a post on standard Kanban board designs. Dominica DeGrandis added her perspective as well. By the way, there’s one lesson I have to take from Dominica and from discussion on Twitter – we need to show people different Kanban board designs so they don’t get fixated on a standard and just stick with it. - Allison Brown

relegere, v. to go over again in reading, speech, or thought; to read, relate or recite again Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception is an independent, open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of innovative research in reception history, broadly conceived, within and across religious traditions. Founding Editors: Dr James E. Harding, University of Otago Dr Eric Repphun, University of Otago Dr Will Sweetman, University of Otago Deane Galbraith, University of Otago (Book Review Editor) - Allison Brown

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. - Allison Brown

Historic New Orleans Collection - Allison Brown

Eighteenth Century Collections Online delivers every significant English-language & foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. The American Revolution. The French Revolution. The Industrial Revolution. The Eighteenth Century saw what many scholars believe to be the three most significant events in world history. Eighteenth Century Collections Online vividly brings this period to life with materials ranging from books and directories to Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements. Part I contains 26 million pages of text from more than 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes) Part II contains nearly 50,000 new titles of previously unavailable or inaccessible materials Full-text search capabilities Well-known and lesser-known authors Canonical titles of the period as well as contemporary works that analyze and debate those titles - Allison Brown

The Historic New Orleans Collection is proud to introduce its online search facility, Mint online. Researchers may now retrieve information on materials held in the collection with a single query. - Allison Brown

ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. - Allison Brown

CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. CrossRef’s mandate is to connect users to primary research content, by enabling publishers to work collectively. CrossRef is also the official DOI® link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. Our citation-linking network today covers tens of millions of articles and other content items from thousands of scholarly and professional publishers. - Allison Brown

Columbia University Libraries has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two-year project beginning July 2008, to preserve 820 recordings containing almost 1200 hours of sound. The audiotapes are part of the Oral History Research Office’s collection of recorded interviews and memoirs, and have been selected because they are among the most important and the most threatened by imminent deterioration due to the inherent fragility of the media. - Allison Brown