MORE 'CROWDSOURCING' POSTS
From a News Release: George Eastman House the world’s oldest photography museum founded in 1947 on the estate of Kodak founder George Eastman, and Clickworker, an innovator in the global crowdsourcing and workforce solutions space, announce the kick-off of a large-scale, iconic crowdsourcing project. The project involves the photo-tagging and cataloging of more than 400,000 […]
From the BBC: Many people don’t realise that the UK has tens of thousands of paintings in its publicly funded museums and institutions that are not currently viewable by the public, either because they are in storage or are kept in buildings that are inaccessible to the general public. The vast majority of these paintings […]
Digitization Projects: "University of Iowa Puts 1860s Diaries Online"
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Resources
From the Iowa City Press-Citizen: A collection of pocket-sized diaries from the 1860s has created an Internet sensation for the University of Iowa library. The diaries are part of the library’s Civil War collection employees have been working on for more than two years, digitizing pages in time for the war’s 150th anniversary in April. […]
Crowdsourcing; Future of Academic Libraries; Nat’l Approaches to Digital Preservation Discussed in New CNI Podcast
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Libraries, National Libraries, Podcasts, Preservation
From the Coalition For Networked Information: In this 13 minute podcast, recorded June 1, 2011, CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott recaps the recent symposium “The Future of the Academic Library” held at McMaster Univ., and she also talks about some of the learning spaces within the University. CNI Director Clifford Lynch mentions a symposium […]
From PFSK: Lost Films is a new online project that collects and documents film titles believed to be missing. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Association, it is a collaborative effort by film societies in Germany, France, Poland, New Zealand and other countries. The archive currently contains over 3500 lost films. By using this portal, […]
Here’s another example of a database being built with the help of crowdsourcing. It is becoming clear that crowdsourcing is moving from an experiment in the use of online social networking to a useful and relatively inexpensive way to assist in the creation of a database. As you’ll read, this project is looking for people […]
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Launches Digital Archives
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Resources, Video Recordings
Crowdsourcing Science History: NIST Digital Archives Seeks Help in Identifying Mystery Artifacts (via NIST) A new website, the NIST Digital Archives, is exhibiting images of historically significant scientific instruments used to obtain these measures, in addition to providing access to full-text publications from the agency’s history. NIST is inviting enthusiasts to participate in describing some […]
