Posts tagged with: Conservation
Happy Link Love: 4/19/2013
- The National Museum of American History needs your help by telling them about your favorite Chinese restaurant for the upcoming traveling exhibition, Sweet and Sour: Chinese Food from Chinatown to Main Street. [via O Say Can You See?, NMAH]
- Congratulations to the Digital Public Libary of American which launched this week. [via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, SIA]
- Embedded metadata doesn't always travel with your photos, especially when it comes to using social media sites which at times strip that metadata from the image. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Next week is the American Library Association's National Preservation Week and libraries across the country will be participating in preservation events, including the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (the Archives own Nora Lockshin and Sarah Stauderman will be participating), the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library.
- Plenty of digitization news this week: 450,000 early journal articles are now available from JSTOR and the Internet Archive, the complete library of College & Research Libraries (from 1923 to the present) is now available for free online, and more than 450,000 historical documents from the State of Iowa have been digitized and are available online. [via InfoDocket]
- Photography and computers have come a long way since 1990 when Adobe Photoshop debuted; in 2010, the founders of Photoshop put together a video about the creation of the software. [via PetaPixel]
Thirty years ago today the newly remodeled 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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