- Very early "big data" tracking mortality rates in 17th-century London. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- The Mellon Foundation has funded an $887,000 project to develop community-driven archives! [via Info Docket]
- See what questions archivists across the country answered yesterday for #AskAnArchivist. [via SAA]
- What album would you be....if you could preserve yourself in a vinyl record. [via Open Culture]
- 3000 new early postcards of Chicago now online from the Newberry Library. [via Newberry Library]
- You've come along way, office furniture of the late 19th century. [via Smithsonian Libraries]
- New to the web! A Global Jukebox, a digital archive of traditional world music which includes some tracks from Smithsonian Folkways. [via NY Times]
- Sounds like an digital archivist horror movie: Search for the Zombie Websites of 1995. [via Atlantic]
- Don't forget to vote in the annual Museum Dance Off! (Our National Museum of American History is in the running.) [via When You Work at a Museum]
- The Guggenheim is releasing digitized art books on the Internet Archive. [via Open Culture]
- Do one thing for Preservation Week 2017. [via ALA]
- Smithsonian scientists discovered a new species of ant, Sericomyrmex radioheadi, named in honor of Radiohead's conservation activism. [via Newsweek]
- Kick back and watch this meditative video of blue whales feasting on krill brought to you by drones. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
Rare images of blue whale feeding behavior, courtesy Oregon State University
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