Submitted by Richard Ranft on Mon, 25/02/2013 - 10:49
The History Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston (www.umb.edu) invites international applications for its graduate-level Certificate in Archives.
The program offers courses and an internship that engage modern issues and knowledge in the archives field, and can be completed in one full year of study. Successful applicants will enroll in four courses (two each in the fall and spring semesters) and will have an internship in archival practice at one of Boston’s leading archival institutions.
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Wed, 13/02/2013 - 21:35
The USA's Library of Congress today unveiled "The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan," a blueprint for saving America’s recorded sound heritage for future generations. The congressionally mandated plan spells out 32 short- and long-term recommendations involving both the public and private sectors and covering infrastructure, preservation, access, education and policy strategies.
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
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