English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA at UCSB) | Early Modern Online Bibliography. The University of California at Santa Barbara has created a free digital ballad collection called The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), which provides access to more than 8,000 seventeenth-century ballads. The collection includes ballads from the Pepys Collection, the Roxburgh Collection, the Euing Collection, and the Huntington Library. […]
Designing databases for historical research (free course) | Institute of Historical Research. This free module provides an overview of important concepts both in terms of the historical data that might be used in databases and in terms of the design process. The module takes the form of a handbook, broken down into chapter headings and […]
A new public group, EMDC: The Early Modern Digital Collaboratory, has launched on MLA Commons. RESOURCE: MLA Commons, The Early Modern Digital Collaboratory ← dh+lib.
We’ve shown you how to load up your ereaders with free ebooks, and Project Gutenberg is a great place to do it. Project Gutenberg Adds Dropbox Support, Perfect for Syncing to All Your Devices.
Over 1000 recordings of music recorded by John Brearley in Botswana, primarily among San or Bushmen people in the Kalahari, have been made available on the British Library Sounds website. Kalarahi San [Bushmen] music online – British Library Music Blog.
A quick fyi for Bach lovers: You can download for free the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. They were recorded by Dr. James Kibbie (University of Michigan) on original baroque organs in Leipzig, Germany. Start with a collection of Favorite Masterworks, or get the complete worksthat have been divided into 13 groups for easy download. Once you download these […]
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 […]
