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Four Million Images from the World's Endangered Archives
Despite the vast and growing resources available online, much of the world's knowledge and history remains ephemeral and under threat of disappearance.
Archives
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Emma Goldman Papers Project Faces Uncertain Future
The 34-year-old Emma Goldman Papers Project is in limbo after losing its affiliation with UC Berkeley and running through its funding.
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British Library Says 6.5 Million Sounds Are in Jeopardy
Last week, the British Library launched a £40m ($60m) crowdfunding initiative to preserve its archive of over six million sound recordings.
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Internet Archive Offers Trip Down Memory Lane (and the Oregon Trail) with 2,400 MS-DOS Games
If you were in elementary school in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you might remember spending hours of free time playing MS-DOS computer games. Who could forget the thrill of shooting a bear on the Oregon Trail, or chasing down that crook Carmen Sandiego?
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Smithsonian Digitizes 40,000 Artworks from Asia
Beginning today, art lovers around the world can peruse the entire collections of two Smithsonian Asian art museums from the comfort of their homes.
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Smithsonian Digitizes 40,000 Artworks from Asia
Beginning today, art lovers around the world can peruse the entire collections of two Smithsonian Asian art museums from the comfort of their homes.
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Tate Digitizes 52,000 Artifacts from the Lives of British Artists
Around 52,000 letters, sketchbooks, photographs, and other ephemera of 20th-century British artists will be accessible online by next summer. The first 6,000 items were revealed this month as part of the Tate Archive.
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30,000 Digitized Documents Retrace the Origin of 'The Origin of Species'
The digitization of Charles Darwin's scientific archive is half completed. When it's finished, the project will allow researchers and anyone who's curious to follow the steps that brought the 19th-century naturalist to formulate his evolutionary theory.
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Flash Back to 1991 with Access to the First US Website
Now you can go back to where the World Wide Web started in the United States with the country's first website. Launched in December of 1991, the website for the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory had little more than text and a few links.
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Getty Adds Thousands of Art Historical Images to Growing Digital Library
Getting museum and library archives digitized is one thing; uniting them on a platform that's uniform and accessible is another.
Art
In the Internet Archive's Millions of Public-Domain Images, a Guide to Museum History
The Internet Archive is using public domain digitization to offer an entryway into its over 500 years of historical texts already online.
Art
Monoskop Releases Archive of Avant-Garde and Modernist Magazines
A collection of Anglo-European avant-garde and modernist magazines dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries has been compiled by Monoskop.