Link Love: 9/30/2011

by Catherine Shteynberg on September 30, 2011

Carnival at Bondi Beach, Sydney, 19 March 1932, by Searle, E. W.

From Bondi Beach to ballerinas: the National Library of Australia is now on the Flickr Commons [via Susannah Wells, SIA].
Facebook. The inadvertent photo archive [via Marguerite Roby, SIA].
What would you do if you found hundreds of young women's report cards from the 1920s in the basement of a building? One man talks about how stumbling upon this found archive of 1920s report cards changed his life [via Now & Then blog].
The Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program recently hosted a personal digital archiving event during the National Book Festival on the National Mall—now they report back.
Who wants a space shuttle launch ringtone? NASA has released lots of free audio clips to the public [via Neatorama].
We’ve talked about the incredible photographs of Empress Dowager Cixi at the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler archives before. Now there’s an entire exhibition about the Empress.
The Powerhouse Museum profiles the Free Your Metadata project, and their recent collaboration together (plus, how you can free your own metadata). Check out the video on the project below:

“Seth van Hooland, Max De Wilde, and Ruben Verborgh introduce Free Your Metadata,” Courtesy of FreeYourMetadata YouTube Channel.

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I especially enjoyed the story about the report cards. Thank you for sharing that.

Maureen September 30, 2011 at 10:14 am

So glad you enjoyed Maureen! I did too--I got pretty caught up in that story.

Catherine Shteynberg September 30, 2011 at 10:47 am

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