Category: What Gets Saved
Link Love: 8/11/2017
- Nighthawks by Edward Hopper, recreated in miniature with office supplies. [via Colossal]
- A new project, Great 78, seeks to preserve 78rpm records. [via Internet Archive]
- Nice! NYPL card holders can now stream movies from the Criterion Collection. [via Gothamist]
- A floating museum makes its debut this month in Chicago! [via Timeout]
- Sound maps of protest from the last 26 years. [via Wired]
- The Europeana REST API wins API World's Data API winner! [via Europeana]
- Cool! Music made from space bloops and bleeps found in the NASA Archives at the National Air and Space Museum. [via NWPTV]
- There's a new kiwi chick at the National Zoo! [via DCist]
- Watch a linguist, a librarian, and an anthropologist recover recordings of indigenous Californians from over a century ago. [via InfoDocket]
Link Love: 8/4/2017
- Oh those adorable/creepy Medieval beasts...[via Hyperallergic]
- Did you miss the Society of American Archivists annual conference? The proceedings are now available for a modest fee! [via SAA]
- Brought to you by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, track the solar eclipse with their new app. [via Smithsonian Associates]
- Kind of irresistible: Legos of retro technology. [via Colossal]
- A peek at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art which re-opens October 14. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- Hmmm, someone reviewed all the bathrooms on the National Mall... [via WAPO]
- Legendary DC punk label, Dischord, makes it's entire archive free for streaming online. [via Open Culture]
Link Love: 7/28/2017
- The Edward Hopper House announced it will receive over 1,000 artifacts related to Edward Hopper, including this drawing he did on his report card at age 9. [via Open Culture]
- Conservators will love this one - "The History of Ink," from 19th century ink manufacturer, Thaddeus Davids and Co. [via Public Domain Review]
- Smart Girls profiled one of the Smithsonian's #groundbreakers, forensic anthropologist Kari Bruwelheide, who helped solve the mystery surrounding explorer Robert Kennicott's death. [via Smart Girls]
- The Library of Congress just released 25 million records as an open data set, and this is why it matters. [via The Conversation]
- How the invention of baking powder was a game-changer for homemakers. [via Jezebel]
- PEN America just launched their new online archive with over 1500 hours of audio and video documenting 50 years of American literary history! [via SAA]
Link Love: 7/21/2017
- The first woman to start a bank, Maggie L. Walker, the daughter of a slave, gets a statue commemorating her in Richmond, Virginia. [via WAPO]
- A pop-up museum in Amsterdam is helping refugees work with their past. [via NY Times]
- The new Wikipedia podcast, Wikipedia Weekly #123, discusses WikiCite, Wikidata, and how Zotero is getting added to the mix! [via Wikipedia Weekly]
- Two great reasons to visit the Hirshhorn; hundreds of love notes to moms compliments of Yoko Ono, and a pop-up coffee and gelato truck! [via WUSA9]
- I am so jealous that Chicagoans can record voices for the Field Museum's dinosaurs and other specimen. [via Ad Week]
- New York mayor Bill de Blasio proposes that future funding for arts organizations and museums would be dependent on the diversity of their employees and boards. via [NY Times]
- A new study looking at the mobile behaviors of visitors in museums. [via Carnegie Studio]
- Saving one outdoor sculpture at a time with dry ice at the Smithsonian's Freer Sackler! [via WAPO]
Link Love: 7/14/2017
- Perfect fodder for animated gifs; zootropes. [via Unfunk]
- Send SFMOMA a text and it will respond with art! [via SFMOMA]
- Eerie plaster casts of people and animals in their final moments before being buried in Pompeii. [via Atlas Obscura]
- Weighing newborn babies wasn't "a thing" until the 20th century. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]
- Archives Unleashed was awarded a new grant from the Mellon Foundation to develop web archive search and data analysis tools. [via York University]
- The provenance of major artworks is mapped with open source software. [via hyperallergic]
- Stanford researchers helped digitize 1000s of images of Rome which are now online. [via Stanford News]
- Calling all archivists, musicians, dancers, storytellers, and visual and performing artists! We need you to collaborate with us on the 2017 Archives Fair.
- Anxious about the total solar eclipse on August 21? You can find out how many eclipses there will be in your lifetime. [via Smithsonian Magazine and WAPO]
- Oh, Bei Bei. [via WAPO]
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