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News you can use...
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Door County Public Library is creating a newspaper archive that currently has over 4700 issues. The site was created using the ResCarta-Web application and is running on an IBM i server.
Laura Kayacan had the materials scanned from microfilm and did the metadata work along with library volunteers. She has been very happy with the results.
You can visit the Door County Public Library archive and watch it grow at the following url
http://doorcountynewspapers.org/
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The ResCarta Foundation has long planned to support audio archiving. This last year, after discussions with Library of Congress staff and others, we decided to forge ahead with the adoption of the Broadcast Wave format for archiving audio content. We had planned to implement audio in three stages.
- Stage one: add support for audio to the toolkit using Broadcast Wave as the archive format with metadata embedded into the aXML chunk.
- Stage two: add support for audio transcription creation to the Data Conversion tool.
- Stage three: To provide for full text indexing, search and locate to the ResCarta-Web application.
Rather than bore you with the details of development, we should cut to the chase and announce that we have done it and that it is on our downloads page or pick up a copy at the American Library Association meeting in Seattle, WA.
Anyone interested in storing news reports, oral histories, class lectures, pod casts or baby's first words should definitely check out the ResCarta Toolkit Version 4.0 when it is released. |
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February 19, 2013
Mac OSX users may have had a hard time with image viewing since the last JAVA update. We have a fix ready for you in a snapshot release.
The bug would not allow images from pdfs and some jpg files from displaying properly in the Metadata Creation Tool. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
The fix can be found at the downloads page or just click here.
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May 07, 2013
PDF conversion using Ghostscript has failed for Windows users since the last JAVA update ( Version 7 Update 21). We are working on a fix for you.
The bug would not allow the Data Conversion Tool to call Ghostscript. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
As soon as we can workaround the bug, we will post a link to the fix here.
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We have been busy here at the foundation to the point of not keeping you informed. How lame IS that?
We just got back from the Wisconsin Library Association conference in La Crosse where we gave attendees a sneak peek at our soon to be released VERSION 4.0 toolkit.
What's coming in the next major release? AUDIO!
That's right, we are building a tool to allow you to create AUDIO ARCHIVES. We have based the storage on the industry standard Broadcast WAV file or BWF. The Metadata Creation tool and the Data conversion tool will embed the information as aXML into the BWF. The Data conversion tool will also have a transcription function built into it. So just as we allow for full text searching in TEXT we will support full text searching in AUDIO.
Like the Textural Metadata Editor the toolkit will come with an Audio Transcription Editor to allow you to clean up or add a transcription.
Our ResCarta-Web will support AUDIO playback from open OGG format on Firefox, Chrome, IE and Opera. Oh Yeah!, you can use your Android phones and pads too. Take that to the bank.
Take a peek at YOUTUBE if you want to see what's coming.
Release date is planned for ALA-Midwinter in Seattle. Be on the lookout for oral history buffs going crazy... |
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