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Digitization Project: Boston Television News Digital Archive (Material from 1959 to 2000)
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Reports, Resources, Special Libraries
|From a Boston Globe Article: Poring through the tapes and films stored in the archives vault at WGBH is like taking a tour of Boston history as it was captured on TV news broadcasts: Fidel Castro visits Boston in 1959; Martin Luther King Jr. marches in Roxbury in 1965; Barack Obama protests outside Harvard University […]
Facts from the FTC: What You Should Know About Mobile Apps New technology can bring tremendous benefits to consumers, but it also can present new challenges. Mobile apps offered on cell phones and other portable devices such as tablets and music players can perform a range of consumer services such as locating the nearest retail […]
From a LeMonde Article (In French, Mechanical Translation via Google): The National Library of France announced Wednesday, July 6, launching an appeal to private partners for the digitization and enhancement of its collections. “Today is a historic step,” said President BNF, Bruno Racine , during a joint press conference in Paris with the Minister of […]
From the National Science Foundation: Centuries of discovery document the diversity of life on Earth. Records of that biodiversity are, for the most part, in varied and distinct natural history collections, making assessing the information a difficult task. Now, the National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program, is responding to the need […]
Internet Archive Canada Must Let 75% of Its Workforce Go
Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Some unfortunate news to begin the weekend. Let’s hope new funding for IA Canada will allow the program to cancel the need to let workers go or if the staff decrease does happen proper funding returns ASAP. From a Toronto Star Article: If they had a million dollars, they’d buy more time. But a vast […]
The NLI Blog from the National Library of Ireland Debuts
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries
|Congrats to everyone at the National Library of Ireland on the debut of your new blog. The first post was written by by Fiona Ross, the Director of the NLI. She writes: The National Library of Ireland was established in 1877 and the doors of our magnificent building on Kildare Street were first opened to […]
From The Guardian’s Data Blog: On 9 July the Republic of South Sudan becomes the earth’s newest country – instantly making the world’s atlases completely out of date. So here’s your new guide to the globe to download and explore. Just click ‘play’ and use Prezi’s pan and zoom buttons by mousing over the right […]
"Visualising China" Launches; Access More Than 8,000 Digitised Historical Photos of China (1850-1950)
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources, Video Recordings
|New from Bristol University (Funded by JISC) From the Visualising China Blog The site now allows users to explore more than 8000 digitised images of historical photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950. It cross-searches metadata from Historical Photographs of China, the Sir Robert Hart Collection and Joseph Needham’s Photographs of Wartime China. [Our […]
1. Wellbeing Toronto (Beta) Wellbeing Toronto is a new web-based measurement and visualization tool that helps evaluate community wellbeing across the city’s 140 neighbourhoods. Using geographic information software, Wellbeing Toronto allows you to select, combine and weight the significance of a number of indicators that monitor neighbourhood wellness. 2. Virginia: VPharma-Calc VPharma-Calc is a database […]
Digitization Projects: "Google, Kenya Digitise Parliament Records"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, News, Open Access, Resources
|From IT News Africa: Kenyans now have free online access to debates from the Hansards, a collection of debates that date back to the pre-independence Legislative Council. The earliest edition of the Hansard indexed is the Report of the Fourth Session of the Debates for the Legislative Council, dated November 24, 1959. Until currently, these […]