- OCLC's WorldCat contains almost 300 million bibliographic records and is the largest aggregation of shared library data in the world. OCLC Senior Program Officer, Roy Tennant gives an exilarating look at what new and exciting things can be done with this data. [via InfoDocket]
- Maps are a treasure trove of historical data and extracting that information for the digital realm is getting easier with projects such as the New York Public Library's New York City Historical GIS Project and the Map Warper tool. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Rock On! From Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein guitar to the Supreme's dresses, curators at the National Museum of American History collect materials that represent the American musical landscape. [The Torch, Smithsonian Institution]
- Just as a scientists's field notes document their collecting and research, the diaries and photographs of individuals document their life experience. Actor, Matthew Modine, shares his experience while shooting Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, through the journal he kept and the photographs he took. [via Unframed, LACMA]
- The Library of Congress tackles the important question, "What Resolution Should I Use?" when one scans photographs or documents that are meant to be enlarged. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Information retrieval and databases, check. Awesome new ideas, ready to go. 20 videos about Harvard Library Lab projects. [via InfoDocket]
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