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Linking Libraries, Museums, Archives: Archivist of the U.S. David Ferriero Speaks at Harvard
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From the Harvard Gazette: The archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, says that one of the core challenges facing today’s librarians, archivists, and museum curators is the need for them to work across disciplines to deliver the integrated, seamless level of service that tech-savvy users are increasingly coming to expect. “We are all in […]
Baltimore: Walters Art Museum Receives $265,000 NEH Grant to Help Digitize Medieval Manuscripts
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From The Baltimore Sun: Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum has received a $265,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to put toward digitizing its collection of medieval manuscripts and making it available, via computer, to the general public. The three-year project, “Imaging the Hours: Creating a Digital Resource of Flemish Manuscripts,” includes 113 illustrated manuscripts, encompassing […]
Two Public Libraries Join OCLC WorldShare Warsaw University in Poland To Use EBSCO Discovery Results From the 2012 Mobile and Museums Survey (Hat Tip: @maxkaiser)
More Open Data Online: Cooper-Hewitt Releases Dataset to Broaden Access to Online Collection
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Patrons and Users, Resources
From the Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced the release of its collection dataset, which will broaden access and allow for increased analysis of the museum’s object holdings. Basic museum data for more than 60 percent of the collection (more than 120,000 records) is now available as a single downloadable file […]
From CNET: A new effort under way at the world’s largest museum and research institution could eventually mean more of its 137 million objects will be publicly available, even if just via 3D digital models. [Clip] CNET has learned that the Smithsonian has a new initiative to create a series of 3D-printed models, exhibits, and […]
From The Daily Pennsylvanian: Students and scholars can now look up the records for the approximately one million objects that the museum houses. Users of the database can search for an object in several ways — including by keyword, curatorial section and type of material. Before the online collections database became available near the end […]
From the Guggenheim Web Site The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has expanded its digital publications resources, offering greater access to a range of content from Guggenheim publications, including the first exhibition catalogue to be published by a museum in an e-book format. A newly digitized selection of essays and historical materials dating back to the […]
From PC World: The exhibit, titled “Steve Jobs: From Garage to World’s Most Valuable Company,” features photos and descriptions of objects from the museum’s permanent collection, as well as vintage Steve Jobs video footage. Particularly interesting is a 22-minute 1980 video of Jobs talking about the early days of Apple. At one point during the […]
New York Metropolitan Libraries Council Announces 2012 Collaborative Digitization Grantees
| Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Preservation, Resources
From the METRO Announcement: METRO is pleased to announce that nine member institutions in the metropolitan New York region have been awarded grant funding to support a range of digitization projects designed to expand access to important collections of historical and rare materials. Recipients of the 2011/2012 Digital Metro New York (DMNY) grants, totaling over […]
NY Times: Quietly, Google Puts History Online (Google Cultural Insitute)
| Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Open Access
This articles includes mentions of several resources and projects we’ve mentioned and linked to on INFOdocket. From the NY Times Article: The digitization of the [Dead Sea] scrolls was done by Google under a new initiative aimed at demonstrating that the Internet giant’s understanding of culture extends beyond the corporate kind. The Google Cultural Institute […]
