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…
Editor’s Note: The following infographic traces the chronology of Crowdsourcing from the early 1700s through 4 centuries of innovation up to today. It originally appeared in Ross Dawson’s book “Getting Results from Crowds” and is reprinted with permission here. Click on the image below to get a full-sized view.
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) was founded as a literary nonprofit organization in 1999 after the Technology Platforms for 21st Century Literature conference at Brown University. Along with Jeff Ballowe and Robert Coover, I was a co-founder of the ELO, and served as its first Executive Director from 1999-2001, and have served on its board of directors…
The National Library of Wales‘ entire collection of oil paintings has gone online for the entire population to enjoy as part of the Your Paintings project. Over 1,950 oil paintings in the library’s collection have been photographed and put on the website in the partnership project between the Public Catalogue Foundation and the BBC. It aims to put all of…
QRator is a collaborative project between the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and UCL Museums and Collections, to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and academic researchers, to enhance museum interpretation, community engagement and establish new connections to museum exhibit content.
Presentations from the Curation in the Cloud Workshop are now available. The aim of this 2-day workshop is to assess the potential and practicalities of using cloud-based solutions for the curation and long-term preservation of digital materials, focusing particularly on data that originates from research or that supports research processes. What will particularly be of…
O’Reilly Media has released Planning for Big Data: A CIO’s Handbook to the Changing Data Landscape as a free Kindle e-book. See the publisher’s description for details.
Einstein Archives | Home. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the California Institute of Technology unveiled a new online repository of 2,000 high-resolution scans from their collected manuscripts of Albert Einstein.
Scholars’ Lab. GIS Day 2011 Lightning Rounds On November 16, 2011, the SLab welcomed a diverse group of speakers presenting lightning round talks as part of our GIS Day celebrations. Eighteen of those speakers agreed to have their talks appear on our podcast, which we’re pleased to present.
Guidelines for a long time preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata Authors: Sofie Laier Henriksen, Wiel Seuskens & Gaby Wijers (NIMk)External reviewer: Robert Gillesse (DEN)These Guidelines for a long-term preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata explains how to preserve digital materials such as text, images and video. It gives a theoretical introduction to…