Posts tagged with: Link Love
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of College & Research Libraries (from 1923 to the present) is now available for free online, and more than 450,000 historical documents from the State of Iowa have been digitized and are available online.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]
Link Love: 4/12/2013
- A royal task, the British Library is set to archive all British websites. [via InfoDocket]
- Can't make it to Rochester, New York to visit the George Eastman House? You can now visit them via Google Art Project. [via PetaPixel]
- Smithsonian American Art Museum's Michael Mansfield, Associate Curator for Film and Media Art, talks about the challenges of preserving time based media art with the National Archives. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation]
- If you are in Washington, DC be sure to check out the Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project exhibition at the National Archives. [via Prologue: Pieces of History]
- Ever wonder where the red sandstone used to build the Smithsonian Castle came from? The Smithsonian Magazine has the answer. [via Around the Mall]
- For the World War II history buff, check out PhotosNormandie, a collaborative collection of over 3,000 creative commons licensed photos from the Battle of Normandy and its aftermath. [via PetaPixel]
- You probably won't find this at your local Starbucks, but barista Mike Breach creates incredible small coffee and milk foam portraits for customers to enjoy. [via This is Colossal]
Link Love: 4/5/2013
- At Stanford they are experimenting with a completely different approach to collecting a person's archives, the near real time archiving of William McDonough. [via New York Times]
- This week saw the passing of Jane Nebel Henson, who along with her husband, Jim Henson, created wonderful memories of children and adults of all ages with their amazing puppetry and through the Muppets. [via O Say Can You See?, NMAH]
- Over at the Field Book Project, they are continuing to explore digital connections between museum specimens, field book catalog records, and the resulting publications along with the Biodiversity Heritage Library. [via The Field Book Project Blog]
- Perhaps more than anyone, the Official White House Photographer has incredible access to the President, documenting historic events as well as personal moments. Former presidential phorographers Eric Draper and Robert McNeely offer some insights into what it is like. [via PetaPixel]
Link Love: 3/22/13
- Wanderlust? Travel the world's 7 tallest summits with Google street view. (via Petapixel)
- Infographics are everywhere, including in the New York Public Library's annual report. (via Infodocket)
- Another score for public domain images: LACMA just released its lovely new collections website with 2,0000 public domain art images. (via UNFRAMED)
- Rumors were flying this week that the Wright Bros were not the first in flight. Think again. (via Daily Planet).
- Mark your calendars! Two of our own, Ricc Ferrante and Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig, will be presenting at the Library of Congress, Monday, April 22nd at 6p.m., on "Preserving and Interpreting Born-Digital Collections." There's also a webinar that same week on preserving your personal digital photographs. (via Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig)
- Listen to Tim O'Reilly explain why digital preservation is everyone's problem, not solely that of archivists. (via Infodocket)
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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