- Starting on Friday visitors to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center will be able to watch the conservation work being done on historical Apollo Saturn V engines that were recovered from the bottom of the ocean. [via Wired]
- How will researchers use digital content being preserved by archives? A good place to start answering this question is with the researchers themselves. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- This past week, the FBI and National Archives started returning the more than 10,000 historical items to their rightful owners after they had been stolen by Barry Landau and his assistant, Jason Savedoff. [via The Washington Post]
- Armed with their scanners, digital cameras, and smartphones, researchers' methods of research and use of archives has significantly changed. [via The New York Times]
- On the 150th Anniversary of the United States Colored Troops (USCT), the National Archives has completed the digitization of all service records of the USCT, some 3.8 million images. [via Prologue: Pieces of History, NARA]
- MP3 audio files, JPEGS, no thank you! Make mine lossless. The folks at the Library of Congress provide an excellent explanation of the costs of "lossy" compression of digital files. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- If you live in the Washington, DC metro area you have no doubt heard about the Brood II species of cicadas that are starting to emerge after being in the ground for the last 17 years, here's a view of the cicada's molting process. [via Retina, Smithsonian Magazine]
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