- Resolution is a tricky thing when it comes to scanning, the folks at the Library of Congress give us some pointers on where to start. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation]
- Stealing some attention away from the Hope Diamond, the Dom Pedro Aquamarine, is now on display at the National Museum of Natural History. The world's largest cut gem aquamarine was designed by gem artist, Bernd Munsteiner, and weighs in at 10,363 carats. [via The Torch, SI]
- We've talked about the Bentley Snowflake Collection held here at the Archives before. Here is Russian photographer, Andrew Osokin's approach to taking pictures of snowflakes. [via PetaPixel]
- Want to know what happened on December 14? Here's a tool to look at events that took place on certain dates using images in the Flickr Commons. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]
- Yesterday, the exhibition Nam June Paik: Global Visionary opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This time lapse video shows the installation of the "Archive Wall" in the exhibition. [via Eye Level, SAAM]
- The Pop-Up Archive was co-founded by Bailey Smith and Anne Wootton and attempts to provide a seemless solution for producers of audio content and oral historians to archive and make accessible their work. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
Pop Up Archive from Mario Furloni on Vimeo.
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