10 Mar 2010 at 10:05am NASA has started archiving items from social networking sites. Currently it is backing-up all NASA Twitter content. Plans are to archive Facebook, YouTube and other sites in the future.NASA Images has teamed up with Archive-It (also a service of The Internet Archive) to ensure that all of NASA?s online activity will be preserved for future research, curiosity, and enjoyment. We have started by archiving 54 of NASA?s Twitter streams. These 54 streams will be updated once a month, archiving every tweet from every stream. The next step is to archive nasa.gov, including all subdomains, and all of NASA?s social networking activity (YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Ustream, MySpace). Take a look at the beginning of our conservation efforts in the NASA Images Social Networking collection on Archive-it.
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10 Mar 2010 at 10:05am News from OmekaThe Omeka team is reaching for the clouds. After more than a year of planning and development, we are very pleased to announce the impending arrival of Omeka.net, a hosted web service that will bring standards-based online collections and exhibitions to the internet cloud. Be first in line for an invitation to try the free Omeka.net Alpha, including a special bundle of plugins, themes, and storage, when it launches in April.
Omeka.net will expand Omeka?s current offerings with a completely web-based service. No server or programming experience required. Similar to services offered by WordPress, the popular open-source blogging software, with the launch of Omeka.net users will be able to sign up for a free hosted Omeka site. Just create a username and password, and your online collection or exhibition is up and running.
This new hosted web service will further the Omeka project?s mission to make collections-based online publishing more accessible to small cultural heritage institutions, individual scholars, enthusiasts, educators, and students.
With Omeka.net, your online exhibit is one click away.
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10 Mar 2010 at 10:05am If Google can find something, that goes quite a way to making it discoverable. The NASA Astrophysics DATA Service, (ADS) is using metadata Google recognizes to enhance their service. They kindly provide a list of the fields Google will index. "Here's what I know: you can embed a set of <meta/> tags containing citation metadata in your HTML to help Google Scholar to index your content. We?ve been doing it at ADS for quite a while."
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10 Mar 2010 at 10:04am The Planetary Data System (PDS) has announced a new delivery of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) data for the following instruments:AccelerometerCRISMCTXHiRISEMARCIMCSRSSSHARADSPICEIn general, MRO Release 12 includes data collected May 9, 2009 through August 8, 2009.
This release includes the first and final release of Accelerometer data.
The HiRISE Operations Center has released HiRISE image data acquired over the time period spanning December 6, 2009 to January 17, 2010 in the MRO orbit range of 15,893 to 16,299. This release contains 2.7 Tb of image data in 74,868 data products. Twelve new digital terrain models have been released. To date HiRISE has released 12,448,578 data products with a total data volume of 39.9 Tb.
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3 Mar 2010 at 2:27pm Now online: Guide to Lunar Orbiter photographs (NASA SP 242).This document provides information on the location and coverage of each photograph returned by the Lunar Orbiter series of spacecraft. Small-scale maps show the overall coverage of each mission and the areas of common coverage among sites of different missions. Large-scale maps show coverage of the individual photographs at each target area. The characteristics of the cameras and of the various orbital sequences utilized are given for background information pertinent to an understanding of Lunar Orbiter photography
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