(Nov 2020) The National Diet Library Preservation Forum is a place where people involved in the care and preservation of library materials can learn about subjects of common interest and exchange practical ideas. The first NDL Forum on Preservation was held in 1990, and on December 19, 2019, was held for the 30th time…
(18 Nov 2020) SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is pleased to announce a partnership with the global open-knowledge platform, The Lens, a robust and comprehensive resource of linked datasets of scholarly and patent works run by Cambia, a long-established global social enterprise. Under the agreement, all scholarly citation and patent citation data for…
(23 Nov 2020) A new project at the University of Melbourne is trying to save old Australian books from being lost to history, by bringing together authors and libraries to create digital ebook versions of older works. In what could be a world-first, the project will also contribute to data collection that will allow…