A proposal for collaborating on data standards for photography related information from Luminous-Lint

With the addition of the papers published for Museums and the Web 2008, the on-line bibliography maintained at conference.archimuse.com now numbers over 1,200 sources.

These published papers from Museums and the Web and ICHIM – with full texts available on-line – represent the development of museums on the web, and museums and interactive multimedia from 1991 to the present.

Museum History Journal, Volume 1 (2008), number 1
http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal.php?id=6

Volume 1, number 1 of the Museum History Journal is now avaialble from LeftCoast Press, Inc. The Table of Contents follows:

FROM THE EDITORS

Today the New Media Consortium (NMC) announced a $250,000 two-year collaboration with Sun Microsystems to launch the Open Virtual Worlds Project, an effort that is aimed at making it even easier to learn, work, and exchange ideas in virtual space. The project will develop a range of standards-based, portable open-source educational spaces, content, and objects, and use them to extend Sun Microsystems's open source Project Darkstar and Project Wonderland virtual world platforms.

JPEG 2000 a great step forward for the archival community
The Digital Preservation Coalition has examined JPEG 2000 in a report published today. The report concludes that JPEG 2000 represents a great stride forward for the archival community. The format now allows for greater compression rates and a recompression rate that is visually lossless.

Papers are now online from a conference held last fall, bringing together researchers from the USA and Italy looking at digital cultural heritage.

National Endowment for the Humanities
“Using New Technologies to Explore Cultural Heritage”

A conference sponsored jointly by
The National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) and The Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR) of Italy

Friday, October 5, 2007, Washington, D.C.
http://www.neh.gov/DigitalHumanities/Conference_07Oct/DH_Conference.html