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Millions of Objects at 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized for Online Database

by Claire Voon May 18, 2017

They are expecting to digitize seven million images by 2020.

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The Lost Sights and Sounds of Storyville, New Orleans’s Red Light District

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 16, 2017December 9, 2017

Through guidebooks and rare artifacts, the New Orleans Historic Collection considers the complicated legacy of Storyville, the city’s former red light district.

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Hear the Voices of Brooklyn’s Diverse Past Through a New Digitization Project

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 11, 2017

The Brooklyn Historical Society’s oral historian discusses the museum’s new online platform for audio.

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Watch the British Library Digitize One of the World’s Largest Books

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 28, 2017October 15, 2022

The 1660 Klencke Atlas is taller than most people, and now its rare maps are easily accessible online.

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Digitizing Route Books from the Golden Age of the American Circus

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 17, 2017February 17, 2017

Over 300 route books made by American circuses are being digitized for the first time by Illinois State University, Circus World, and the Ringling Museum of Art.

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Help Transcribe World War I Love Letters

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 14, 2017February 14, 2017

On this Valentine’s Day, Europeana is launching a crowdsourcing project to transcribe the text of digitized World War I love letters.

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The Graphic Beauty of Vintage Bookplates

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 5, 2017October 15, 2022

The University of British Columbia Library has digitized hundreds of highly personalized bookplates from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Library of Congress and Digital Public Library of America Launch Partnership with Maps

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 7, 2016December 6, 2016

The Library of Congress has joined the Digital Public Library of America as a content hub and is sharing around 5,000 objects from its map collections.

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From Tiny Stairs to Taxidermy Earrings, 200,000 Objects from Cooper Hewitt Go Online

by Claire Voon September 7, 2016

Home to drawings, textiles, jewelry, furniture, and thousands of other design objects, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is taking increased advantage of the internet’s digital real estate.

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A History of Russia in a Massive Photo Archive

by Claire Voon August 31, 2016August 30, 2016

Prepare to get swept away in a stream of over 150 years of photographs capturing all sorts of scenes of Russian life.

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Digitizing the World’s Largest Braille Music Collection

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 10, 2016August 10, 2016

Digitizing braille music isn’t as easy as just scanning the page. The tactile notations require multiple steps for accurate transcription, and their history of touch means the dots are sometimes smashed or otherwise unreadable.

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Why Museums Are Granting Google Free Access to Their Collections

by Claire Voon May 25, 2016May 31, 2016

Google Cultural Institute recently revealed that it has engineered the creatively named Google Art Camera: a custom-built camera intended to capture “ultra-high resolution ‘gigapixel’ images” of artworks in museums around the world.

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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries
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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries

Featuring two decades of interdisciplinary art along with new work created in response to the ongoing Women’s Rights Movement in Iran, the exhibition is on view in Hartford, Connecticut.

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