The Data Audit Framework (DAF) provides organisations with the means to identify, locate, describe and assess how they are managing their research data assets. DAF combines a set of methods with an online tool to enable data auditors to gather this information. DAF will help ensure that research data produced in UK Higher Education Institutions is preserved and remains accessible in the long term.

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) and DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) are delighted to announce the release of the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) toolkit. This toolkit is intended to facilitate internal audit by providing repository administrators with a means to assess their capabilities, identify their weaknesses, and recognise their strengths. Digital repositories are still in their infancy and this model is designed to be responsive to the rapidly developing landscape. The development of the toolkit follows a concentrated period of repository pilot audits undertaken by the DCC, conducted at a diverse range of organisations including national libraries, scientific data centres and cultural and heritage data archives.

iText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly.

iText is an ideal library for developers looking to enhance web- and other applications with dynamic PDF document generation and/or manipulation. iText is not an end-user tool. Typically you won't use it on your Desktop as you would use Acrobat or any other PDF application. Rather, you'll build iText into your own applications so that you can automate the PDF creation and manipulation process. For instance in one or more of the following situations:

• Due to time or size, the PDF documents can't be produced manually.
• The content of the document must be calculated or based on user input.
• The content needs to be customized or personalized.
• The PDF content needs to be served in a web environment.
• Documents are to be created in "batch process" mode.

You can use iText to:

• Serve PDF to a browser
• Generate dynamic documents from XML files or databases
• Use PDF's many interactive features
• Add bookmarks, page numbers, watermarks, etc.
• Split, concatenate, and manipulate PDF pages
• Automate filling out of PDF forms
• Add digital signatures to a PDF file
• And much more...

Translates units into examples. Very useful for adding some reality to measurements.

DROID (Digital Record Object Identification) is a software tool developed by The National Archives to perform automated batch identification of file formats. Developed by its Digital Preservation Department as part of its broader digital preservation activities, DROID is designed to meet the fundamental requirement of any digital repository to be able to identify the precise format of all stored digital objects, and to link that identification to a central registry of technical information about that format and its dependencies.

From the website:

JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Javatm. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.

Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend.

Best of all, JForum is freely available under the BSD Open Source license.

Major US supplier of glass blowing tools and colors. The website is well laid out and has a great color comparison tool.

They carry Reichenbach and Zimmerman color (Gaffer dropped them); Jim Moore, Spiral Arts, Steinert, Correll and Blockhead tools.

Gott makes and sells secialized tools and protective clothing for glass blowers.  I don't know many folks using this stuff but it sounds mighty cool.

   The tools are all designed to reduce the amount of smoke in the air of the shop and marks/scars on the finished piece.

Manufacturers of tools for glassblowers including blowpipes, punties and optic molds.

The website is a mess, but their 'color kits' are great, especially if you're just starting out and want to play around with color without spending a fortune.

 They carry Kugler, Q-Color and Wiesenthal color; Essemce and Palmer pipes and tools.

A very great page with lots of links to library extensions.

Extending the capabilities of various web browsers so that they are better able to integrate with library content. Appropriate topics include both new browser extensions, as well as information about how to create them.

Find University of Pennsylvania in the list and drag the bookmarklet into your browser to find books in Franklin from Amazon and other ISBN containing pages.

These bookmarklets were inspired by Jon Udell's LibraryLookup homepage. The enhancement provided here is to include other ISBNs for the same work in the query.

The Cooliris Mission is to make browsing and searching more intuitive and efficient using intelligent previews. Our first product is a free browser extension that allows you to conveniently preview underlying content for Google searches.

Once powered by Cooliris, simply rest your mouse over a Google search link or Google image thumbnail and see the underlying content without having to click back and forth.

Use this bookmarklet to find out if Penn Library has a book on Amazon. Sadly, this one works on ISBN so it's not entirely consistent.