To test the utility of virtual fossils for science communication, a pilot resource consisting of digital reconstructions and 3-D printed models of fossils was created and exhibited in early 2012 (Figs. 5 and 6).
And building graphics to show our findings was also difficult and required an expert resource," Stephen Northfield, director of digital at Human Rights Watch, noted in a statement.
Our release today brought together the skills and resources of five different digital organisations; Detention Logs, The Guardian, New Matilda, Open Australia and The Global Mail.
Mr. Robins says his report would have been much more modest without the new generation of digital resources, like the ProQuest digitization of The New York Times, Columbia University's similar project for The Real Estate Record and Guide, and sources that keep evolving, like googlebooks, where the results for any particular search increase monthly, sometimes weekly.
In the third phase, students were more deeply involved in the selection of digital resources and the Ecology of Resources Design Framework proposed by Luckin (2010) and described previously was applied.
(HEFCE, 2011, p. 7) There is also an emphasis on the need for cross-sectoral recycling of digital resources: We now have a range of digital resources for education, but their usage is typically confined to the one curriculum area or age group for which they were designed.
The use of digital resources may even help reverse the downward trend in U.S. education standards.
Dr Nicholls' digital model of Rome is under contract for development as a book and package of digital resources for school and university teaching.
All of which helps to make the case for "urban mining", reclaiming some of these valuable resources from the mountains of digital junk already out there.
