The first iteration of the public front end of the Australian Dress Register went live a few weeks back. This release makes visible much of the long data gathering process with regional communities that began in 2008 and continues as more garments are added to the Register over time. The ADR is a good example [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Digitisation'
It was only ten years ago – bringing back to life content from an old website
March 22nd, 2010 6 Comments
Ten years ago, one of the first digital projects I had the privilege of working on in a very junior capacity was for the exhibition 1000 Years of the Olympic Games: Treasures of Ancient Greece. Timed to coincide with the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, the heavily sponsored digital component included a virtual reconstruction of [...]
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Electronic Swatchbook version 2 – lots more public domain swatches, search by colour
July 15th, 2009 3 Comments
We meant to launch our Electronic Swatchbook v2 last year but it got buried in a slew of server upgrades and other projects. But here it is, now with nearly 2000 public domain patterns available for you to use and re-use. There are a whole lot of new swatches some dating as far back as [...]
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Library of Congress report on their participation in the Commons on Flickr
December 11th, 2008 2 Comments
Michelle Springer, Beth Dulabahn, Phil Michel, Barbara Natanson, David Reser, David Woodward, and Helena Zinkham over at the Library of Congress have (publicly) released a very in-depth report on their experiences in the Commons on Flickr over a 10 month period. Titled “For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project” it explores [...]
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OCLC’s Beyond the Silos of the LAMs report
September 30th, 2008 2 Comments
Just a few days after the Picnic08 discussions of ‘openness’ comes a very timely report from the OCLC on cross-sector collaboration between libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) titled Beyond the Silos of the LAMs. Diane Zorich, Günter Waibel and Ricky Erway are the authors of the report. The report is the result of a series [...]
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Jace Clayton on afro-funk and digital preservation
September 2nd, 2008 1 Comment
One of favourite music and culture bloggers (and DJs), Jace Clayton has a lovely piece in Frieze which explores the issues around how collectors might trawl the digital music of today in forty years time. He starts out looking at the recent craze in African funk reissues – records recovered from master tapes buried in [...]
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Anthony Grafton on digitisation in the New Yorker
November 3rd, 2007 Comments Off
Over in the New Yorker is an excellent article on digitisation, the various book scanning projects, and a historical look at the urge to record and catalogue everything written by historian Anthony Grafton. Here are some pull quotes of specific note –
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