D-Lib Magazine (March 2006)

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	A Special Issue on Digital Library Evolution by Bonita Wilson doi:10.1045/march2006-editorial Letters doi:10.1045/march2006-letters From David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics From Esther Hoorn, University of Groningen, and Maurits van der Graaf, Pleiade Management & Consultancy What Do You Do with a Million Books? Gregory Crane, Tufts University doi:10.1045/march2006-crane	Illustration of Longstreet's Sharpshooters attacking a federal train above Chattanooga. Courtesy Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University. Used with permission. This month, D-Lib features the Perseus Digital Library 19th-Century American Collection.
	Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Wolfgang Schibel, University of Mannheim, and Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox, University of Missouri - Kansas City doi:10.1045/march2006-schibel From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections Daniel J. Cohen, George Mason University doi:10.1045/march2006-cohen Document Recognition for a Million Books G. Sayeed Choudhury, Tim DiLauro, Robert Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Droettboom, Hillcrest Labs; and Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University doi:10.1045/march2006-choudhury Debabelizing Libraries: Machine Translation by and for Digital Collections David A. Smith, Johns Hopkins University doi:10.1045/march2006-smith Text, Information, Knowledge and the Evolving Record of Humanity Gregory Crane and Alison Jones, Tufts University doi:10.1045/march2006-jones WebWise 2006 Inspiring Discovery - Unlocking Collections: Conference Report Stuart L. Weibel, OCLC Research doi:10.1045/march2006-weibel Perseus Digital Library 19th-Century American Collection Gregory Crane, Tufts University doi:10.1045/march2006-featured.collection The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program: New Projects from Fiscal Year 2005 Lee L. Zia, National Science Foundation doi:10.1045/march2006-inbrief Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories Anoush Margaryan and Allison Littlejohn, University of Dundee doi:10.1045/march2006-inbrief PerX: Pilot Engineering Repository Xsearch Roddy MacLeod, Heriot Watt University doi:10.1045/march2006-inbrief In the News: Recent Press Releases and Announcements
	*In Print* Mind the gap: assessing digital preservation needs in the UK IDPF eBook User Survey 2006 Museums and the Web 2006: Selected Papers RLG DigiNews DPC/PADI What's new in digital preservation Decision Tree for Selection of Digital Materials for Long-term Retention *Point to Point* LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) ISMIR cummulative list of papers and posters Version 61 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography *Calls for Participation* Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, 25 - 27 September 2006, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Call for papers. The submission deadline is 15 April 2006. Harnessing the Power of Grey: Eighth International Conference on Grey Literature, 4 - 5 December 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana USA. Call for papers. The abstract submission deadline is 1 May 2006. International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL 2006), 5 - 8 December 2006, New Delhi, India. Call for papers. The submission date is 1 May 2006. International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, InSciT2006, 25 - 28 October 2006, Mérida, Spain. Call for papers. The submission date for abstracts is 1 May 2006. Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication, 14 - 17 September 2006, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Call for papers. The submission date is 15 May 2006. *Goings On* NASIG Annual Conference 2006 - Mile High Views: Surveying the Serials Vista, 4 - 7 May 2006, Denver, Colorado, USA Geoinformatics 2006, 10 - 12 May 2006, Reston, Virginia, USA 8th international Conference on Current Research Information Systems - Enabling Interaction and Quality: Beyond the Hanseatic League, 11 - 13 May 2006, Bergen, Norway Digital Preservation Management: Short-Term Solutions to Long-Term Problems, 14 - 19 May 2006, Ithaca, New York, USA IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, 15 - 19 May 2006. This is a virtual conference available via the Internet. Online Educa Madrid, 17 - 19 May 2006, Madrid, Spain 40th Annual ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Conference, 17 - 20 May, 2006, Seattle, Washington, USA IATUL (International Association of Technological University Libraries) 2006 Conference, 22 - 25 May 2006, Porto, Portugal WWW 2006 - Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference, 23 - 26 May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology Conference: Data in a World of Networked Knowledge (IASSIST 2006), 23 - 26 May 2006, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Archiving 2006, 23 - 26 May 2006, Ottawa, Canada AVI 2006 - Advanced Visual Interfaces, 23 - 26 May 2006, Venice, Italy ICEIS 2006 - 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 23 - 27 May 2006, Pathos, Cyprus eLA eLearning Africa 2006 - 1st International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, 24 - 26 May 2006, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2006, 29 May - 4 June 2006, Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia Legal Aspects of e-Repositories and e-Collections Conference, 31 May - 1 June 2006, Coventry, United Kingdom *Deadline Reminders* SITE 2006 (Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education) 2006 JA-SIG Summer Conference Museums and the Web 2006 Computers in Libraries 2006 Hypertext 2006 - Seventeenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia Microsoft Research, Microsoft Live Labs: Accelerating Search in Academic Research 2006, Request for Proposals (RFP) EDBT 2006: International Conference on Extending Database Technology Digital Preservation in State Government: Best Practices Exchange 2006 SURA/ViDe 2006 IADIS International Conference: WWW/Internet 2006 A³H: 1st International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia 2nd International Workshop on Web Personalization, Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces (WPRSIUI'06) Workshop on Social Navigation and Community-Based Adaptation Technologies Information Online Group (IOG) Bi-annual Information Online Conference and Exhibition 2nd International Digital Curation Conference Digital Data Curation in Practice I-KNOW '06 Special Track on Advanced Semantic Technologies 2006 (AST06) and Special Track on Knowledge Visualization and Knowledge Discovery (KVD06) Buying & Selling eContent 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006) Open Source and Sustainability EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference 2006 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST-2006) The 11th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2006) Workshop on Digital Libraries in the Context of Users' Broader Activities DL-CUBA 2006 JCDL Workshop on Digital Curation and Trusted Repositories Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts DC 2006: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications ISMIR 2006: 7th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval Web3D 2006 Symposium ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Virtual Conference 1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine The Access to Knowledge Conference Third International Conference on: Preservation and Conservation Issues Related to Digital Printing and Digital Photography Third Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication E-mail Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation and Access 2006 Search Engine Meeting CHI 2006: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems EDUCAUSE Policy Conference 2006 IEEE First International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2006)
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