Link Love: 10/12/12
- Ever worked for the federal goverment? If so, you'll find your personnel record at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis Missouri. [via Prologue, NARA]
- Icons of design and a favorite of Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, Charles and Ray Eames brought some new ideas to the Smithsonian. [via O San Can You See?, NMAH]
- A beautiful thing, the Perkins School for the Blind Archives has made available online some of the correspondence of Helen Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan and Sullivan’s mentor at Perkins School for the Blind, Michael Anagnos. [via InfoDocket]
- While many us will never need to store a petabyte of data, many cultural institutions around the world need to think about how to best store and preserve massive of amounts of data. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Want to know more about the flu? You're in luck, the University of Michigan Center for Medicine just released The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia, an original, open access digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic in the United States. [via InfoDocket]
- Terra cotta archivists and the book archives of the Internet Archive. A conversation with Brewster Kahle. [via InfoDocket]
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I try never to miss reading Link Love. Today's links are one more reason to keep returning. Thank you!
Hi Mitch , Im also a regular reader of Link Love . I always find one or two things to think about and get pleasure from .This time i loved the Eames link and The conversation with Brewster Kahle.Thanks for curating these links in one place . Sara in London (along way from Washington)
Hey Mitch
Thanks for the link regarding the long term storage of data. I found your page, whilst researching for a paper we're writing on that very issue. It was interesting to read the talk of tape(!) as a long term media asset but there's still no real answer for the many petabytes of precious data that only exist digitally, going say 50, 100, 150 years forward.
Maybe copper scrolls may see a resurgence - or ceramic tablets... (only laser etched rather than in cuneiform)
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