Link Love: 10/21/2011

by Catherine Shteynberg on October 21, 2011

Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA RU000371 [SIA2009-2059].

Check out some of our wonderful and wacky collections highlighted over at Around the Mall blog (for example, the world's longest beard, at right) in honor of American Archives Month.

The wisdom of crowds: two George Mason University professors are assembling a team on the Internet of more than five hundred forecasters who will make educated guesses about a series of world events in order to study crowdsourcing [via Liza O’Leary, SIA].
“I love mistakes in photos.” Emily Moazami of the Smithsonian American Art Museum waxes poetic about her favorite things about being a photo archivist.

You think digitizing a book is as simple as slapping a book on a scanner? Not so fast—here’s a broad overview from the Library of Congress’ The Signal blog.
It’s a big freebie: Smithsonian Folkways offers up ten free tracks for you to download from the new Mickey Hart Collection, which highlights musical traditions at risk.
Powerhouse Museum talks about the changes in their digital strategy over the years, and highlights some very interesting digital projects taking place at museums, libraries, and archives.
The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art highlights the Emmet family artists found in their collections in the newest installment of their “I Found it in the Archives” series:

“I Found it in the Archives : The Emmet Family,” Archives of American Art Processing Archivist Jean Fitzgerald takes us on the grand tour with the women of the Emmet Family, Courtesy of the Archives of American Art YouTube Channel.

Categories: What Gets Saved

Tags: Web/Tech, Digitization, Link Love, 2011 Archives Month

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very very cool that the smithsonian is highlighting mickey hart and allowing users to download 10 free tracks! Hart has always been one of my favorite percussionists and a master of the art....Got to see him live once or twice ;) Keep up the good work and thanks
tom

Tom Merigan October 23, 2011 at 12:52 am

I loved Hart. He was a patron of art. I saw this pic of thomas and Lawrence together for first time.

Denise Watson October 26, 2011 at 6:26 pm

Hi Tom and Denise- I'm a huge Hart fan too--I grew up listening to my parents' old Grateful Dead records, and I'm thrilled to see his collection of unique world music available to all!

Best,
Catherine

Catherine Shteynberg October 27, 2011 at 11:23 am

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