The Exact Editions platform now uses the Shibboleth system for federated sign-on to web services. The system is Open Source and much used in the British academic universe, amongst others. Here is a video from JISC explaining some of the advantages (warning: the vides is a little bit ‘corporate’).
Federated services are always a good idea on the web? Such shared technologies all depend on trust….which is becoming ever more important in the web as services are layered on top … Keep Reading
Faber Finds is a new list of POD (Print on Demand) titles from Faber the distinguished London publisher which revives titles buried in their extensive list of out of print titles. It is a very impressive list with many attractive authors and subjects. The motto of the series is ‘Bringing Great Writing Back into Print.’ I bet it will do that well and lead to steady sales from their long tail (there is more meat in the Faber long tail … Keep Reading
Barbara Quint (always worth reading), in Information Today, has some interesting comments as she reports on the massive Google Newspaper archiving project.
Google’s efforts in this space are undoubtedly impressive. But the readable quality of old newspapers is inevitably poor. Take a look at this 1944 issue of the St Petersburg Times. Google can break the newspaper up into articles and can find the headline “Russians Nearing Minsk” — this is not easy and totally cool — but … Keep Reading
Sandy Smith who blogs at Paper Palate has a thorough review of the trial issue of Taste Italia and in the process she has also produced some interesting practical comments on the digital platform.
… Keep ReadingBut I was pleasantly suprised by how convenient this format is. You have an entire magazine – and with your subscription, all the back issues – laid out before you. You just click on a page to browse, expanding and collapsing pages at will. Unlike ad
Was it a coincidence that on pretty much the same day Google made an announcement about its massive newspaper archiving project, Plastic Logic announced its plans for an eInk newspaper reader? Both stories were caught by the NY Times: plastic papers here, and deep print archives here.
If Plastic Logic have their way you will be able to read any of today’s newspaper anywhere in a digital format on a single fold away sheet, something like a … Keep Reading
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