Link Love: 12/14/2018

It will take fifty years, but the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) plans to contribute forty million 3D-digitized fossil specimens to a global digital museum. [via the BBC]

The first edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica has been digitally published by the National Library of Scotland. It’s like Wikipedia...sort of...! [via infoDOCKET]

Descendants of those enslaved by James Monroe are helping rewrite the stories presented on tours of Monroe’s Highland plantation. [via NPR]

In 2021, the Smithsonian Latino Center will unveil “Making Home: Latino Stories of Community and Belonging” inside the first American Latinx history gallery at the National Museum of American History. [via Hyperallergic]

Two curators of NMNH’s “Sea Monsters Unearthed” give an insider's perspective on the creation of the new exhibit. [via Smithsonian Magazine]

Thanks to a “Save America's Treasures” grant, the Getty Research Institute will digitize records from feminist art collectives, including the Woman’s Building. [via Hyperallergic]

The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture has recently launched a web exhibit to accompany 350,000 recently digitized items chronicling the story of the Little Rock Nine! [via Mellon Foundation]

A study conducted in Central America has shown that city frogs are more alluring than country frogs (warning: NSFWIYAF—Not Safe For Work If You’re A Frog). [via PBS]