Author: Tom Cramer

We are pleased to announce that Mark Matienzo is joining Stanford Libraries as of September 19, 2016 as our Collaboration & Interoperability Architect. Mark will be joining Stanford from DPLA (the Digital Public Library of America) where he currently serves as the Director of Technology. He has previously worked as an archivist, a digital library software developer, and the technical architect for the ArchivesSpace project, at institutions including DPLA, the Yale University Library, and The New York Public Library.

Stanford Library Staff participate in Spotlight event at Yale

by Tom Cramer • August 20, 2016 • Comments Off

On August 9-10, the Yale University Libraries and Yale Center for British Art hosted an event to showcase the open source software platform called Spotlight (http://spotlight.projectblacklight.org).

Web Archiving in 2015 — a Quick Redux of IIPC’s General Assembly at Stanford

by Tom Cramer • May 2, 2015 • Comments Off

This past week saw the 2015 General Assembly of the IIPC, International Internet Preservation Coalition–probably the biggest week and biggest event of the year in the web archiving world.

SearchWorks: enhanced views for digital images & files

by Tom Cramer • December 22, 2014 • Comments Off

On Tuesday, Dec 16 2014, the SearchWorks team added a new set of features supporting the display and use of digital content in SearchWorks:

Stanford Libraries’ Dr. Robert Sanderson is the inaugural co-chair of the new W3C Web Annotation Working Group

by Tom Cramer • September 11, 2014 • Comments Off

In a move that will have a profound and long-lasting impact on the library sector, the W3C officially chartered a new working group on Web Annotation on August 20, 2014. Stanford Libraries staff member, Rob Sanderson, will serve as the working group’s inaugural co-chair.