DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Future Proofing: Enabling Practical Preservation of Born-Digital Records. JISC has released Future Proofing: Enabling Practical Preservation of Born-Digital Records. Here’s an excerpt: The results show that is it possible to build a low-cost, practical solution that addresses immediate preservation problems, makes use of available open source tools, and requires minimal IT […]
Who are you, Digital Humanists ?. This questionnaire, which is an initiative of the Centre for Open Publishing (Cleo) and openEdition.org, is a contribution to the Humanistica Project: towards a European association for the Digital Humanities, building on the ideas expressed in the Digital Humanities Manifesto, based on a multilingual approach, and democratic principles (one […]
UNC Charlotte: Associate University Librarian for Special Collections | HASTAC. The Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte aspires to national leadership in the field of digital scholarship and special collections, and to this end it seeks applications and nominations for a faculty appointment, Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Special Collections. The AUL […]
Project Briefing Presentation by: Barbara Taranto Digital Program Director New York Public Library The New York Public Library recently launched its first foray into crowd sourcing metadata by exposing 40,000 image pages of turn of the century restaurant and cruise ship menus: “What’s On the Menu?” The goal of the project was to widely distribute […]
Releasing the collection on GitHub | cooper-hewitt labs. Late last week we released the Cooper-Hewitt’s collection metadata as a downloadable file. And in a first for the Smithsonian, we dedicated the release to the public domain, using Creative Commons Zero.
Timeline Tutorial: Introduction. Using the extraordinary Exhibit and Timeline scripts written by MIT’s SIMILE project and the flexible power of Google Docs spreadsheets, it’s now possible to build custom, interactive, and searchable timelines for use in your research and your teaching.
Accessible Dropdown Menus | Terrill Thompson. A couple weeks ago at the 27th Annual CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference I gave a presentation on accessible dropdown menus. In that presentation, I walked through several examples of accessible menu techniques (and a few not-so-accessible ones). All the examples are available on my Dropdown […]
Nelson Mandela archive launches digital treasure trove | World news | guardian.co.uk. The poignant missive is among more than 1,900 documents, photographs and films of South Africa‘s first black president that were published online on Tuesday by Google and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
ABC releases landmark archival film footage under Creative Commons | Creative Commons Australia. This year, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), our national public broadcaster, is turning 80 years old. To celebrate, the ABC has launched a new website called “80 Days That Changed Our Lives“, giving 80 pieces of audio visual content from the ABC archives a […]
Several weeks ago I was aware that there was a flurry of discussion among the digital humanities crowd about “archival silences.” This occurred shortly after I had posted about the differences between the way archivists use “archive” and the way digital humanities people seemed to be using it, so I suspected that “archival silences” would […]
