A Few Words of Appreciation to Digital Library Conference Organizers
by Bonita Wilson
doi:10.1045/july2008-editorial

Letters
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From Henry Gladney, HMG Consulting

Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status
Peter B. Hirtle, Cornell University
doi:10.1045/july2008-hirtle

Battle of the Buzzwords: Flexibility vs. Interoperability When Implementing PREMIS in METS
Rebecca S. Guenther, Library of Congress
doi:10.1045/july2008-guenther

A Format for Digital Preservation of Images: A Study on JPEG 2000 File Robustness
Paolo Buonora, Archivi di Stato; and Franco Liberati, Università degli Studi di Roma
doi:10.1045/july2008-buonora

Researcher Profiles and Portfolios: Use Cases of the Facebook Service and the University of Queensland Researchers Service
Belinda Weaver, University of Queensland
doi:10.1045/july2008-weaver

Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLS
Kat Hagedorn and Joshua Santelli, University of Michigan
doi:10.1045/july2008-hagedorn

2008 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Spans Culture and Technology
Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University
doi:10.1045/july2008-morris

1st Collaborative Information Retrieval Workshop: Held in Conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2008
Jeremy Pickens and Gene Golovchinksy, FXPAL; and Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research
doi:10.1045/july2008-pickens

Audubon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh
Edward Galloway, University of Pittsburgh
doi:10.1045/july2008-featured.collection

A Digital Libraries Curriculum: Expert Review and Field Testing
Barbara M. Wildemuth, Jeffrey Pomerantz, and Sanghee Oh, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; and Seungwon Yang, and Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech
doi:10.1045/july2008-inbrief

CrossRef Supports Digital Object Identifiers (DOI names) for Standards
Chuck Koscher, CrossRef
doi:10.1045/july2008-inbrief

National Recognition for Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library
The Alberta Library
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In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements

Plate CCLVI. Purple Heron, / Ardea rufescens, Buff. / Adult full spring plumage, 1. Young two Years old in spring plumage, 2. 1835. The Birds of America, Vols. I - IV, London. 1827-1838. Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Used with permission.

This month D-Lib's featured collection is Audubon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh.

In Print

• NISO Z39.7-2004: Information Services and Use: Metrics & statistics for libraries and information providers – Data Dictionary
• Digital preservation of e-journals in 2008: Urgent Action revisited: Results from a Portico/Ithaka Survey of U.S. Library Directors
• European Quarterly Preservation Digest
• ScieCom Info
• Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey; second edition revised and updated
• A Comparative Study of e-Journal Archiving Solutions: A JISC Funded Investigation
• Evaluation of the JISC UK LOCKSS Pilot
• JISC & SCONUL Library Management Systems Study
• To Share or not to Share: Publication and Quality Assurance of Research Data Outputs
• Open Access: Opportunities and Challenges - a Handbook
• The Version Identification Framework - Recommendations and solutions for Repository Managers, Content Creators and the Repository Software Community
• The AMBeR Project - Part II: The Recorded Incidence of Student Plagiarism and Penalties Applied
• Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter
• Planets Newsletter
• nestor Newsletter

Point to Point

• Ensuring long-term preservation and usability of digital information
• The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography
• Web Curators Mailing List
• The Google Book Search Bibliography
• [BLT] Blog for Library Technology
• Scholarly Kitchen
• Digital Video Licensing Discussion Forum
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Calls for Participation

• Webology: Special Issue on Folksonomies, the Web and Search Engines. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 August 2008.
• 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 8 - 12 March 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 16 August 2008.
• 3rd Annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium, 1 - 3 November 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 31 August 2008.
• The 1st ISPIM Symposium - Managing Innovation in a Connected World, 15 - 17 December 2008, Singapore. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 10 September 2008.
• CHI 2009: Digital Life, New World, 5 - 9 April 2009, Boston Massachusetts, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 19 September 2008.
• DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects, 1 - 3 April 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 30 September 2008.

Goings On

• KDD '08: The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 24 - 27 August 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• 17th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2008) 25 - 27 August 2008, Paphos, Cyprus
• Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008, 25 - 29 August 2008, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
• 2nd Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR), 1 - 5 September 2008, Taganrog, Russia.
• HCI2008 Culture, Creativity, Interaction, 1 - 5 September 2008, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
• The Third International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT (LSPI) together with the Second International Law and Trade Conference (ILTC)., 3 - 5 September 2008, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2nd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine & Medicine - Researchers and Open Access, 4 - 6 September 2008, Oslo, Norway
• 20th World Computer Congress (WCC 2008), 7 - 10 September 2008, Milan, Italy
• Eleventh International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2008), 8 - 10 September 2008, Brno, Czech Republic
• The International Symposium on Wikis, 8 - 10 September 2008, Porto, Portugal
• ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide, 9 - 11 September 2008, Leeds, United Kingdom
• ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) International Conference 2008, 10 - 12 September 2008, Old Windsor, United Kingdom
• Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts 2008, 14 - 17 September 2008, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• ISMIR 2008, 14 - 18 September 2008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - ECDL 2008, 14 - 19 September 2008, Aarhus Denmark
• The annual conference of the International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums: The Digital Curation of Cultural Heritage, 15 - 18 September 2008, Athens, Greece
• 11th Information Security Conference, 15 - 18 September 2008, Taipei, Taiwan
• 11th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2008), 16 - 19 September 2008, Sydney, Australia
• Workshop on Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH) 2008, 18 September 2008, Aarhus, Denmark
• 2nd Workshop on Foundations of Digital Libraries, 18 September 2008, Aarhus, Denmark
• The 7th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, 19 September 2008, Aarhus, Denmark
• First Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries, 19 September 2008, Aarhus, Denmark
• The 27th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, 22 - 25 September 2008, Newcastle, United Kingdom
• International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2008), 22 - 26 September 2008, Berlin, Germany
• The IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 23 - 26 September 2008, Beijing, China
• Open Access and Research Conference 2008, 24 -25 September 2008, Brisbane, Australia
• iPRES 2008: The Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, 29 - 30 September 2008, London, United Kingdom
• 3rd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web, 29 - 30 September 2008, Uppsala, Sweden
• The 11th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2008), 29 September - 1 October 2008, Crete, Greece
• The 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008), 29 September - 1 October 2008, Tsukuba, Japan
• EKAW 2008 - 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Knowledge Patterns, 29 September - 1 October 2008, Acitrezza, Catania, Italy

Deadline Reminders

• Second Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2008)
• 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
• 2008 Systemics and Informatics World Congress
• 4th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
• International Council on Archives (ICA) 2008 Congress
• IADIS International Conference: ICT, Society and Human Beings 2008
• Visual Communication 2008: Creative Industries, Photography and Culture
• Telecommunications, Networks and Systems 2008
• e-Learning 2008
• Web Based Communities 2008 - WBC2008
• Informatics 2008
• SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Aggregated Search
• European Conference on Data Mining 2008
• Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 - CGV2008
• 7th International Semantic Web Conference
• 4th International Digital Curation Conference "Radical Sharing: Transforming Science?"
• The Third International Workshop on Ontology Matching
• Nature inspired Reasoning for the Semantic Web (NatuReS)
• WWW/Internet 2008
• Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2008 - IHCI2008
• e-Commerce 2008 - EC2008
• International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications
• 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
• International Workshop on Social and Personal Computing for Web-Supported Learning Communities (SPeL 2008)
• The 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT)
• Visual Information Engineering 2008
• The Second Digital Preservation Challenge
• Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources
• First International Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining (SADM'08)
• The Third International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT (LSPI)
• UNAK'08: Information: Diversity and Awareness
• Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment
• First International Conference on the Application of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008)
• 5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008)
• 24th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning
• 10th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization
• IFLA Social Science Libraries Section Pre-Conference: Disappearing disciplinary borders in the social science library - global studies or sea change?
• OGF23 - Digital Repositories - Interoperability Using Grid Technologies
• World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council
• 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques - SIGGRAPH 2008
• International Symposium on Versioning XML Documents and Vocabularies
• 1st Fedora Summer Institute on Prince Edward Island
• Balisage: The Markup Conference

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