Link Love: 2/15/2013
- A sound for sore ears, the Library of Congress unveiled their National Recording Preservation Plan, a framework for saving America's recorded sound heritage for future generations. [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, SIA]
- Twitter and scholarly research? A new tool being developed at George Washington University Libraries allows social media researchers to gather data from Twitter. [via InfoDocket]
- All is not lost, Operation Photo Rescue was recently in New York City to help people restore photographs that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy. [via Marcel LaFollete, SIA]
- The British Library recently announced the digitization of some of its most important works in their collections. [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, SIA]
- With the London 2012 Summer Olympics a distant memory, and with the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics on the horizon, photographer David Burnett shares some of his decidley unique images of the games that he took with a 1940s Speed Graphic camera and a 1943 Aerial reconnaissance lens. [via PetaPixel]
- Bringing museum collections, children, and a little mystery together, at the National Museum of American History the Tooth Fairy makes dental deposits. [via O say can you see?, NMAH]
- Are you getting overwhelmed by all of the digital information in your life? If so, check out the upcoming Personal Digital Archiving 2013 program at the University of Maryland, College Park. See video below. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]
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David Burnett's images of the Olympics are absolutely magical. An entirely unique viewpoint on the games I hadn't seen before. Thanks for the link, well worth a visit!
The angle of some of the images really allows you to feel as though you were there, in on the action. While others provide a stunning view of what it would have been like to be there. Awesome link, thank you.
The Tooth Fairy Video is perfect. My son is 7 and absolutely loved this video, he is in the process of "donating" teeth to the tooth Fairy now. I did not realize the National Museum of American History had such a fantastic website. Thank you for the link!
The images of the London Olympic games are pretty incredible although a shot with the speed graphic camera of Mckayla Maroney midair in the vault would have topped off the collection.
David Burnett's shots are magnificent.
The depth captured by a supposedly out-dated tech relic is simply stunning. The Usain Bolt image is insane, see what I did there? I have worked in auto-stereoscopic, lenticular technology in the past and I was more impressed with these images than with some of the 3D new tech out there.
I was out of the UK during the Olympics so I saw them at arms length as it were, these images capture a certain intimacy seldom seen by any TV cameras and probably by most spectators. Fantastic pictures already snaffled a few as screen savers.
David Burnett’s Usain Bolt image is fascinating it has an eerie depth to it almost as if the Fastest Man in the world is super imposed on the picture. Very other worldly, stunning and amazing considering the equipment used to capture history. Time to dust off my Hasselblad me thinks.
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