The East Asia Image Collection is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). Images of Taiwan 台湾, Japan 日本, China 中国, Korea 朝鮮, Manchuria 満洲国, andIndonesia are included. The Collection is built around a core of visual materials donated to Skillman Library Special Collections by the family of Gerald and Rella […]
With that in mind, today we’re announcing the release of a National Digital Stewardship Alliance glossary to support the work being done in the NDSA on the Levels of Preservation. The Levels of Preservation activity is working to provide basic digital preservation guidance on how an organization should prioritize its resource allocation. The NDSA glossary strives to provide […]
open access reads: digital humanities in libraries « the girl works The newest issue of the Journal of Library Administration is subtitled, Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement. I don’t subscribe, can’t find it in EBSCO, and can’t find it at the library. Luckily, the authors have already posted a great deal of their work […]
After the Flood: Digital Art Recovery in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy | The Signal: Digital Preservation. Though this story has a happier ending, it underscores issues for everyone wishing to ensure the security and longevity of their data. Any sort of disaster – not just natural — can wreak havoc on digital data and […]
Parsing CSV Data with Ruby Computers offer us a wonderful opportunity to automate and ease some of the tasks associated with data cleanup and preparation in the humanities. After a conversation with a researcher at CESTA on Friday, I thought about a problem he was confronting with a spreadsheet of data he is collecting that contains many […]
History of Missiology Boston University Theology Library’s collection of missionary biographies, reports, sermons and theologies provides a rich resource for the study of missiology. Building on early informal efforts to digitize portions of the collection, the Library participates in the Open Content Alliance and collaborates with the Internet Archive. This portal provides online access biographical […]
Free access to all Cambridge Journals content from 2012 « CJO « Cambridge Journals Blog. From 22nd January – 5th March, all Cambridge Journals content published in 2012 will be available for free on CJO. All you have to do is register. There’s a lot you can do in 6 weeks; it’s long enough to watch the […]
Guide to the Paper Dolls Collection mid 19th century. The dolls in this collection appear to date from the mid-19th century. Their exact date and place of origin are unknown. The first Western paper dolls appeared in 18th century Paris during the reign of Louis XV. Several sources assert their existence in 9th century Japan. […]
The Digital Walters – Digitized Walters Manuscripts. The Walters Art Museum houses an extraordinary collection of some 850 illuminated manuscripts from diverse cultures around the world. Full digital surrogates of many of these manuscripts are available on this website. We hope you enjoy them and incorporate them into your work and projects.
The Catholic Pamphlets Collection | Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) Blog. The Catholic Pamphlets collection at the University of Notre Dame contains a wide variety of pamphlets, booklets, and other documents pertaining to Catholicism or the Church in some way. The collection is located at the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Hesburgh Library, […]
