Link Love: 11/16/2018

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has acquired the personal papers of actors/activists Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, comprising 178 linear feet (bankers’ boxes) of archival material! [via Schomburg Center]

A cultural essay reflects on objects from Matthew Shepard's life, recently donated by the Shepard family to the National Museum of American History. [via The Atlantic]

Organized by the Capital Area Food Bank, the National Building Museum's "CANstruction" competition begins this Sunday, November 18. [via National Building Museum]

A team of six is digitizing the New York Times's photo morgue of six million images. That's a mere one million per staff member. [via Preservica]

To grapple with the issues around digitization in 3D, the Smithsonian Digitization Program Office (DPO) has released a metadata model for 3D data capture! [via Smithsonian DPO]

The Washington Post highlights the correspondence of a rural, semiliterate couple during the Civil War, recently digitized by the Library of Congress. [via Library of Congress]

Today, the General Conference on Weights and Measures will vote to define the kilogram based on Planck's constant (and not a hunk of metal in a vault in France). [via Smithsonian.com]