ELPUB 2008
June 27, 2008
I am really inspired by some of the sessions I attended at ELPUB 2008 in Toronto June 25-27.
Publishers at York University will soon be introduced to the WebCite service. It is a self-archiving service for web URLs, allowing users to request that a web page be archived. A successful request results in a permanent link that can be used to cite that snapshot of the web location at that particular time in perpetuity, allowing authors to use web URLs in their bibliographies with confidence.
Gunther Eysenbach`s paper discussing the WebCite service can be found here.
I am also looking forward to indexing some of York University`s encoded archival desciption files with California Digital Library`s eXtensible Text Framework. I attended the pre-conference workshop and am now happily playing with XTF on my laptop.
