Submitted by Richard Ranft on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 12:44
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Thu, 24/01/2013 - 21:29
Scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute in UK and Agilent Technologies in USA have encoded digital files on synthesized DNA, including all of Shakespeare’s sonnets in ASCII text, a PDF of a scientific paper, a medium-resolution JPEG 2000 colour photo - and a 26-second MP3 audio excerpt from Martin Luther King’s 1963 I have a dream speech.
Source: Nature, 2013. "Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA" http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11875
Submitted by Lynn Johnson on Wed, 23/01/2013 - 17:55
Please note that IASA is now accepting applications for the IASA 2013 Research Grant!
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 09/01/2013 - 23:07
Call for Papers
IFLA WLIC 2013
Singapore
17th-23th of August 2013
Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) and Cataloguing Section (CATS)
Theme: Macro and Micro - Ways through the Maze. How new methods of indexing and cataloguing can complement traditional cataloguing for audiovisuals and multimedia.
The Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) and the Cataloguing Section (CATS) invite proposals for papers to be presented at the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Singapore, August 17th-23th August 2013.
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