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Australia's Public Broadcaster (ABC) to Open Access to Digital Archives
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, News, Open Access
|From ITnews.com.au: The ABC and Education Services Australia have garnered a $20 million project to digitise the public broadcaster’s archives for a new education portal the Federal Government hopes will promote use of the National Broadband Network. [Clip] It would be specifically targeted at primary schools and linked to the school curriculum, allowing teachers to […]
From the Public Catalogue Foundation: Your Paintings is the first national online museum of all publicly owned oil paintings in the UK. It was launched in June of this year (2011) by the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) and the BBC. Today it has been announced that a further 40,000 paintings have been uploaded to the […]
From Seven Days: All museums struggle to represent the full range of their holdings, and the Fleming is no exception. [Janice] Cohen, [Director of the Fleming Museum] estimates that only 5 percent of its 24,000 items are on view at any time; the other 95 percent sit on shelves upstairs, neatly labeled but as good […]
Congrats and kudos to the Europeana team! From the Europeana eNewsletter: This October, Europeana’s content reached 20 million items, increasing the content ten-fold since its initial launch in 2008. The 20 millionth item is a painting of the Biblical story of David and Goliath painted by the celebrated Caravaggio in 1600-1601. Caravaggio worked predominantly on […]
Cambridge Digital Library Launches (Free) with 4000 Pages of Material by Sir Issac Newton
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|From Wired UK: A copy of the Principia Mathematica filled with annotations made by Sir Isaac Newton is among 4,000 pages of material that are being made available online by Cambridge University Library. As part of the Cambridge Digital Library project started in 2010, the world’s largest and most significant collection of the scientific works […]
Vatican's Library begins to Digitize 80,000 of Its Manuscripts With NASA Technology (Video)
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|From Rome Reports: The library is taking a giant leap to the web. By using NASA technology, it’s planning on scanning 80,000 of its manuscripts. The technology used is called FITS, which stands for Flexible Image Transport System. So far the process was divided in three stages. The first included scanning 8,000 of the 80,000 […]
The November 2011 HathiTrust Activity Update was released today. A PDF version is also available. Here are just a few highlight from the update: Boston College Joins HathiTrust New on HT Site: “Our Research Center” Expansion of “Buy a Copy” The “Buy a copy” option has now been expanded to include over 30,000 public domain […]
Now Online: 120 Years of Vogue Fashion
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|UPDATE: ProQuest Has Released Official Announcement About the Release of the Vogue Archive ProQuest is marketing the archive to academia and libraries. From the Wall St. Journal (Subs Only) or Free via Google Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, has turned Vogue’s glossy pages into a digital database and is opening it to the public […]
Boston Public Library Assisting With Area Digitization Projects
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|From the Boston Globe: The digitization of 50 editions (1960-2009) of The Torch [East Bridgewater High School] was made possible with a $100,000 federal grant awarded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners to the Boston Public Library, to help provide broad access to records and documents of cultural institutions across the state by making […]
Public Domain Books: Open Book Alliance Works to Pry Open Google’s Closed Books
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|From an Open Book Alliance Blog Post: Everyone knows Google has scanned tens of millions of books, including over 3 million books in the public domain, and that it got most of these books from many different libraries, public and private. What most don’t know is that Google forces those libraries to use technology to […]