A few days before my dad died in August, I got the call I'd been dreading from my
mother. She told me it was time to come home for my dad's last days. I live in California,
and they live in Alabama. I packed up my PS4, super slim PS3 and PS Vita--alas, my desktop
PC was too big--and made the journey.
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Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative. The Library of Congress is launching a
review of the bibliographic framework to better accommodate future needs. A major focus of
the initiative will be to determine a transition path for the MARC 21 exchange format in
order to reap the benefits of newer technology while preserving a robust data exchange that
has supported resource sharing and cataloging cost savings in recent decades.
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SourceForge presents the DROID project. DROID is an open source application.
SourceForge provides the world's largest selection of Open Source Software. [2014-10-31]
This project is obsolete, for latest version (6.1.3) see GitHub
https://github.com/digital-preservation/droid (source) and
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/manage-inform…
(binary) DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is an automatic file format
identification tool. It is the first in a planned series of tools developed by The National
Archives under the umbrella of its PRONOM technical registry service. [2013-01-24] The
binary download of the latest version of DROID has now been moved to The National Archives
website:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/projects-and-… The
source code for the latest version of DROID remains available via Github:
http://digital-preservation.github.com/droid/ [2012-09-07] DROID 6.1 has been released.
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1. System Requirements FITS is a Java program and requires Java version 1.6 or higher.
To find out your Java version type java -version in a command-line window. 2. Installation
Download the latest official release from our Downloads page. If this is your first time
downloading FITS, create a directory for FITS, for example:
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In which I set my pants on fire in front of a room full of librarians wearing a tin
foil hat
Code4LibBC Day 2 starting with more lightning talks. The LITA Forum & library data
in Python Trevor Smith IT section of ALA pre-conf on learning Python by playing with library
data PyMARC scripts Beautiful Soup (also good for screen scraping) Tip: Don't use Python 3
Using MapBox and geoJSON to showcase historical slides and audio…
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Cognition - the blog by world-renowned web design and development agency Happy Cog,
discussing design, user experience, business, content strategy and more.