I came across the  Open Data for Resilience Initiative, a global partnership that seeks to build data sharing programs along with the capacity and tools to use data to make more informed decisions, that is working on implementation in 25 countries. I came across it at work while I was looking for Haiti data, specifically in terms of Haiti-specific geo-spatial information, data and knowledge sources. The data can be used for many purposes: establishing baseline data, conducting risk assessments, planning, project monitoring, and tracking progress. This site is intended to facilitate more effective support to the country’s rehabilitation, recovery and longer- term sustainable development.

If you want to peruse through Haiti’s cartography collection; http://haitidata.org/maps/search

Everyone remembers Friendster, right? Looks like it may be time to start that personal archiving project:
Friendster to Erase Early Posts and Old Photos

I’ve been going through the Metadata Working Group specs here:
http://www.metadataworkinggroup.org/
The consortium of companies in the group are responsible for a good deal of the consumer and professional devices that might be used for creating, manipulating, or storing digital images, so it has a good deal of bearing on what we’re discussing.
You can download their specifications document, which is good to look at and consider how their standards compare and contrast, as well as augment or potentially clash with the Getty documents or other standards we’ve read.

For whoever is doing personal archiving for their final project: Download presentation, papers, etc. at the site for the First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information:

http://senseable.mit.edu/engagingdata/downloads.html

Internet Archive | Wayback Machine
I went on a search to find an internet website archive (this pertains to my previous post about preservation of websites) and came across this internet archive. The amount of information on here is incredible, there are projects pertaining to the internet, moving images, texts, audio…theres a lot to explore!
Heres the link: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Report on the Preservation of World Cultural Heritage

Washington, DC-The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Salzburg Global Seminar announce release of the report, “Connecting to the World’s Collections: Making the Case for Conservation and Preservation of Our Cultural Heritage” based on a seminar held in
Salzburg, Austria, October 28-November 1, 2009. The seminar, part of the IMLS’s multi-year initiative on collections care, Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action, explored global themes related to
conservation and preservation, including international needs, issues, perspectives, and accomplishments.

The report includes practical recommendations to ensure optimal collections conservation worldwide and the Salzburg Declaration on the Conservation and Preservation of Cultural, which was passed by 60
participants hailing from 32 countries. The session combined presentations by leading experts in conservation and preservation throughout the world with small working groups tasked to make
recommendations for future action in key areas, including emergency preparedness, education and training, public awareness, new preservation approaches, and assessment and planning. To access these resources, click here: http://www.salzburgglobal.org/2009/News.cfm?IDMedia=52858.

“Connecting to the World’s Collections: Making the Case for Conservation and Preservation of Our Cultural Heritage” is available in PDF format at http://www.imls.gov/pdf/SGS_Report.pdf.

Hey class! Head over to the Course Website to see the quick tutorial on changing your display name on wordpress – please take a minute to do it sometime this week!
http://lis697.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/how-to-change-your-username-in-wordpress/

In case any of you are having issues with Controlled Vocabulary or Getty Thesauri or were intrigued by CONA. I found some really good PowerPoints for all those topics and more……here

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/training.html