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The Declassification Engine: Your One-Stop Shop for Government Secrets |...
A fascinating article about researchers developing the “Declassification Engine” – a tool to analyze declassified documents in the United States. In many cases, documents are declassified only because...
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Gizmodo | A Look Behind the Scenes of the Internet Archives Impossible Task
Last fall, the Internet Archive celebrated a massive milestone, as the “online Library of Alexandria” reached 10 Petabytes of stored information. Yes, that means 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes...
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The Millions | Save the Languages
Researchers at Comanche Nation College and Texas Tech University are creating a digital archive to reconstruct the Comanche language before its 25 remaining speakers die out. Meanwhile, researchers...
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The Digital Museum Where Outdated Apps Can Live Forever | Gizmodo
There’s a crew of hero historians [and librarians!!] out there slurping up the Internet for posterity in case we want to see it later, but what about all the apps? Well now there’s a place for them...
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11 Amazing Historical Snapshots From One of the World’s Best Archives | Gizmodo
The J. Paul Getty Museum is home to troves of fascinating historical artifacts. And last week, the museum [announced] a project to give the public unfettered access to it. The Open Content Program...
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The Smithsonian Just Added a Chunk of Code to Its Permanent Collection | Gizmodo
Great to see an organization swoop in, so to speak, to preserve a defunct application, then go a step further and open the source code to developers. Hope to see this happen more often. The...
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World’s largest Aboriginal exhibition goes online | Australian Geographic
THE WORLD’S LARGEST AND most representative collection of Aboriginal artefacts will soon be accessible at the click of a mouse. The South Australian Museum has undertaken a significant project to...
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British Film Institute to launch streaming video service on October 9th |...
The British Film Institute promised that it would put 10,000 movies online as part of the Film Forever initiative, and it’s now making good on its word — if slowly. The Institute will launch the first...
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Russian volunteers put the complete works of Tolstoy online | MobyLives |...
Read the article: Russian volunteers put the complete works of Tolstoy online | MobyLives. Quoteable: “This tremendous response is apposite for Tolstoy: not only of course is he one of the most beloved...
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Creature Feature: The Original Frankenstein Text Is Now Readable Online |...
Full Post In the pantheon of classic horror, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ranks as one of the first, and most memorable, monster tales ever told. And while it’s easy enough to pick up a new copy of the...
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Finally, a Digital Library of Bizarre Human Bones From the Middle Ages | Gizmodo
A spinal column with fused vertebrae. The bones of a woman with advanced syphilis. Skeletons deformed by rickets and leprosy. A fascinating online library of deformed bones from the Middle Ages goes...
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Duke’s Legacy: Video Game Source Disc Preservation at the Library of Congress...
Several months ago, while performing an inventory of recently acquired video games, I happened upon a DVD-R labeled Duke Nukem: Critical Mass PSP. My first assumption was that the disc, like so many...
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British Library gives teachers tools to inspire | Books | The Observer
Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians from British Library Learning on Vimeo. While Discovering Literature is an important cultural resource that can be enjoyed by all ages, it has been...
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Crowdsourced Metadata Games: A Primer | Information Space
The challenge: You have two minutes to educate a Stupid Robot by describing the picture below as precisely as possible. The catch: you can only list one word of any given length from 4-10 letters, and...
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Internet Archive offers 900 classic arcade games for browser-based play | Ars...
As part of its continuing mission to catalog and preserve our shared digital history, the Internet Archive has published a collection of more than 900 classic arcade games, playable directly in a Web...
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Over 2,400 MS-DOS Games — Like Oregon Trail — Can Now Be Played Online |...
archive.org Rejoice, ’90s kids: More than 2,400 of your favorite MS-DOS games are now available to play online via the Internet Archive. READ MORE: Over 2,400 MS-DOS Games — Like Oregon Trail — Can...
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Google Puts Online 10,000 Works of Street Art from Across the Globe | Open...
Circling Birdies by Cheko, Granada Spain Since last we wrote, Google Street Art has doubled its online archive by adding some 5,000 images, bringing the tally to 10,000, with coordinates pinpointing...
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Creating the First Cultural #DigitalLibrary in Canada’s North | University of...
(Edmonton) When you live 400 kilometres from the nearest library, getting information can be a real challenge. Professor Ali Shiri of the University of Alberta’s School of Library and Information...
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The #Internet Is Failing The #Website #Preservation Test | TechCrunch...
If the internet is at its core is a system of record, then it is failing to complete that mission. Sometime in 2014, the internet surpassed a billion websites, while it has since fallen back a bit,...
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How To #Scan 50 Miles of #Historical Documents Into an #Online #Archive |...
Tracking the lightning quick development of modern cities is easy with Google Street View, but the [Venice Time Machine] project aims to provide context for the past 1,000 years of urban evolution in...
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