Link Love: 3/15/2013
- A daughter's research brings greater knowledge of the Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Engineering Cadettes and their contributions to America's World War II efforts. [via AirSpace, NASM]
- Rediscovered . . . National Geographic launches a new tumblr, Found, to showcase forgotten images from its archives. [via PetaPixel]
- UCLA Library recently announced its Broadcast NewsScape, a broadcast news research and education platform that contains nearly two hundred thousand news programs from the United States and around the world from 2005 to the present. [via Internet Archive Blogs]
- Another area of digital preservation that is getting some support . . . Stanford and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are collaborating to preserve over 15,000 software programs created between 1975 and 1995. [via InfoDocket]
- A B.I.G. (namely the architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group) plan is in store for the Smithsonian Institution Castle and the surrounding Quadrangle complex as it undergoes a redesign. [via core77]
- Tears in the pages of my kids books are simple to fix, I just get out the Scotch tape. But when it comes to repairing torn pages in volume III of Conrad Gessner’s seminal work Historiae Animalium (1551-1558) a more delicate fix is in order. [Unbound, SIL]
- Photographer Mark Brodie provides a glimpse into a world that few of us will see or experience while train hopping over 50,000 miles and visiting 46 U.S. states on over 170 different freight trains. [via PetaPixel]
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