Posts tagged with: Link Love
Link Love: 5/10/2013
- A new video from the Library of Congress profiles the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpepper, Virginia. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Another awesome digitization project, the Balboa Park Commons is an online archive of over 20,000 digitized materials from seven different San Diego museums. [via PetaPixel]
- Secretary G. Wayne Clough shares his reminiscences of his childhood in rural Georgia at the National Museum of American History's Agricultural Innovation and Heritage Archive. [via Pam Henson, SIA]
- If you are in New York City before September 2nd, be sure to check out the exhibition, Photography and the American Civil War, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [via PetaPixel]
- As new archivists head out into the workplace, digital preservaion knowledge and skills are a must. Alison Langmead and Brian Beaton, at the University of Pittsburgh talk with with Library of Congress about their approach to teaching about digital preservation. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Images of Apple products are seemingly ubiquous, but have you ever wondered how the images were taken? Photographer Peter Belanger gives us peek into what goes into taking these iconic images. [via PetaPixel]
Link Love: 5/3/2013
- If you are in Washington, D.C. next week, you may want to check out musician Ian MacKaye's talk at the Library of Congress on personal digital archiving and the need to educate creators and users to steward our digital cultural heritage. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]
- The realistic birds made from paper and watercolor paint by Johan Scherft are wonderful; perhaps if he were alive today ornithologist and painter, John James Audubon, would certainly have appreciated them. [via Colossal]
- With hundreds of film rolls in the Smithsonian Productions collections, "The Unseen Seen" project by Austrian photographer Reiner Riedler in which he takes images of film rolls is really facinating. [via PetaPixel]
- In New York, the gatherings of archivists and their exciting collections are exposed. [via The New York Times]
- Smithsonian magazine has a trifecta of wonderful things to share: "How Do You Scan a 3-D dinosaur?"; "Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism"; and "We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now." [via Smithsonian magazine]
- Back to where it all began, CERN is recreating the first website. [via Andrew Whitesell, SIA]
Link Love: 4/26/2013
- Seems like keeping digital images on you memory card and never transferring them to your computer has a historical anticedent: Undeveloped used film in old cameras. [via PetaPixel]
- Born digital records abound in archival collections the world over, Donald Mennerich, a Digital Archivist at the New York Public Library, talks about the work and tools he uses to preserve these records. [via The Signal, Digital Preservation, LOC]
- The State Library of North Carolina and State Archives of North Carolina has released a redesigned, streamlined and mobile friendly digital preservation education site. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]
- Each person works at the Smithsonian has their own story to share about how they wound up there, Michelle Selvans, a planetary scientist in the National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, shares hers. [via AirSpace, NASM]
- A reunion of all the living United States Presidents occured yesterday at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas. [via Prologue: Pieces of History, NARA]
- Tools of the trade, a look into the Book Conservation Lab at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. [via Unbound, SIL]
- Words of inspiration for photographers from Joel Sartore, National Geographic photographer. [via PetaPixel]
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]
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