Relive a behind-the-scenes Twitter tour of the Smithsonian’s National Worm Collection, which an @Smithsonian Twitter follower deemed "a horror show of sea life" [via @smithsonian].- Pets in Collections. A Tumblr blog full of pet goats, cute dogs, and the like from museum and archive collections worldwide [via Jennifer Wright, SIA].
- The Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute introduces the website “Understanding Early Photography,” which aims to give an overview of early photographic materials, such as Daguerreotypes, as well as “the nature of their degradation processes and products.” (A warning that the site doesn’t seem to function well with Google Chrome…)
- “One of our most engaged transcribers, a man from the north of England, has written us to say that the people in the diaries have become almost an extended part of his family. He gets caught up in their lives, and even mourns their deaths.” The Library of Congress’ digital preservation blog interviews University of Iowa Libraries about their recent involvement in a project to crowdsource the transcription of many of their Civil War manuscripts.
- A new iPhone app helps users scan their printed photos with their phones and upload them to the Internet Archive for sharing and storage [via Marguerite Roby, SIA].
- A History of Anthropological Work at the Smithsonian from Smithsonian Magazine:
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