Digital Developments

The Library blog generally focuses on items in the Wellcome Library’s holdings, mentioning their catalogue descriptions in passing: it rarely features the unglamorous process of how those catalogue descriptions are created. Two new additions to the catalogue of archives and… Continue reading

We normally post about our own holdings, or something related to our own holdings, but when I saw the Guardian article and British Library news today on the Codex Sinaiticus project, I was so impressed, I had to share. The… Continue reading

Intellectual property: you are surrounded by it. Every literary or creative work you contribute to (such as a letter, a book, a painting) is your intellectual property and you have legal rights over how your property is distributed and used.… Continue reading

Armadillo Systems, who – along with the British Library – have designed the popular Turning the Pages software for viewing books online, are currently developing a new version that will cater for large 2D images such as maps and scrolls… Continue reading

The UK Web Archiving Consortium and The National Archives are pleased to announce a study into how archived websites are collected and made available to users. The study is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee. Culturally significant websites are… Continue reading

The World Digital Library prototype launches April 21st with a wide range of digital content from many libraries. The Wellcome Library is an active partner, and our content will be made available on the site shortly. The World Digital Library… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library has enabled an RSS feed for newly available Electronic Resources. The latest catalogued resources will appear at the top of the page while the list will contain only the top 30 records based on activation date. The… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library is pleased to announce that its entire collection of 17th century receipt (recipe) books – 75 manuscripts in total – have been made available online. They are currently available as PDFs from our catalogue records. We have… Continue reading

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Subscribers to the diglib mailing list were forthcoming in responding to a recent post by the Wellcome Library. We asked for links to exemplar digital library sites focused on delivering full text material, and the results are listed here… Listings:… Continue reading