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Wow! The Lincoln Legal Papers documents Lincoln’s active and successful professional life as a lawyer before he moved to Washington, D.C. in 1861. The site’s editors [have selected], annotate[d], and transcribe[d] material from 96,386 documents related to the 5,669 legal cases and activities of Lincoln’s varied legal career (Description via FREE). Learn Much More Here […]
From the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative: Applications designed for the iPad offer interactive content that takes advantage of touch-screen navigation. The iPad combines robust computational functionality with a screen large enough to serve as a legitimate replacement for printed textbooks and other course materials. Where the iPad applications have led, other tablets and their attendant applications can be […]
From the OLAC Language Resource Page: [The] catalog, developed by the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), provides access to a wealth of information about thousands of languages, including details of text collections, audio recordings, dictionaries, and software, sourced from dozens of digital and traditional archives. (via Twitter)
Ujala Sehgal from Business Insider has compiled images of the front pages from 17 newspapers and has made them available on the BI web site. The collection includes newspapers from several countries. Sehgal writes: The front pages of newspapers in moments like this become part of history itself, so we went through the world’s newspapers today […]
From the NY Times Arts Beat Blog: This week’s Book Review introduces revamped best-seller lists, the result of many months of planning, research and design. On the Web, there are three entirely new lists. One consists of rankings for fiction and nonfiction that combine print and e-book sales; one is limited exclusively to e-book sales […]
From a Scientific American Article: Data are the common currency that unites all fields of science. As science progresses data proliferate, providing points of reference, revealing trends, and offering evidence to substantiate hypotheses. Decades into the digitization of science, however, data proliferate exponentially, at times threatening to drown knowledge and information in a sea of […]
From O’Reilly Radar: Citizens have a new tool to visualize data and map it onto their own communities. Geospatial startup FortiusOne and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have teamed up to launch IssueMap.org. IssueMap is squarely aimed at addressing one of the biggest challenges that government agencies, municipalities and other public entities have in 2011: converting […]
From the Electronic Resources Online Blog: ELO is excited to announce the publication of its 2nd collection of electronic literature. With its wide ranging forms, Volume 2 picks up where ELC1left off, offering a diverse anthology of works from an international group of authors in a variety of languages and forms. [Clip] The new collection […]
From an Article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune: The Archdiocese of New Orleans says it will unveil Tuesday a new online database containing records of baptisms, marriages and deaths in colonial New Orleans — including those of African slaves, who until now have been nearly invisible to genealogical research. ‘This is a cache of records […]
Available From Business First of Buffalo Included are each team’s average home attendance, the percentage of seats that were occupied at home games, and ratios of average attendance to local population and team victories. The population ratio was calculated by dividing the average attendance by the number of residents within a team’s BEA economic area […]