Legal Diagramming

Aza Raskin over at Mozilla had a really interesting post on legal legibility.  He opposed these two, the first is a visualization of the second.

It’s amazing how much friendlier it is.

This is what is being visualized:


Playing with Mind Maps

Another useful set of tools for us to look at: mind mapping tools. The map below was generated using My Mind which is s great mind mapping tool on OS X . There is also the very popular FreeMind available on many different platforms (Windows, OS X, etc.)


Playing with CMaps

Concept maps may be a useful tool for us to map out some of the things we are working with. The tool I have used many times in the past can be found here and was developed by the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC). Here is a sample map:


dpBestflow.org

dpBestflow is a new site that is a cooperative venture between the Library of Congress and the American Society of Digital Photographers – just launched on Nov 11.   It includes everything you want to know about digital photography – from the camera settings to the archival format choices etc.  It was funded under LC’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.    Looks to be a really great resource.


New Planning Document from the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative

Posted to the ASIS-L list by Susan Emilie Manus of the LOC:

The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) has just released a new planning document, Digitization Activities: Project Planning and Management Outline.

The aim of this document is to define activities relating to the digitization of original cultural materials, and to outline general steps for planning and management of this process. The activities described in this document address library/archival issues, imaging and conversion work, and IT infrastructure issues in particular, and were identified using project management outlines from several organizations with significant experience working with cultural materials. This document defines “digitization” as a complete process, and covers all project components from content selection through delivery of digitized objects into a repository environment.


The Library Of Congress’ Experience

The LOC’s Experience is the recent re-design/overhaul of the main building’s exhibits. It includes a number of technology innovations (digital wall, kiosk, large scale page turning and cross-referencing of key US documents, etc.) to enhance the experience of the LOC’s visitors. This project also includes a connection to an on-line experience to extend the visit beyond the time spent at the LOC. The on-line experience is known as myLOC.