Category: Images

Mar 01 2009

Archives, Europe, Images, Libraries, Manuscripts, National Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, USA, Women

Women’s History Month

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March is Women’s History Month in the USA and a number of universities, libraries, and other educational institutions are preparing events to celebrate. This month long celebration started with events...

Feb 07 2009

Databases, Digital, Europe, Images, Open Access, World

Prado Artwork Available Through Google Earth

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I really enjoyed my visit to the Prado Museum back in 2001 and was delighted to find out that the museum and Google have formed a partnership to make 14...

Dec 01 2008

Databases, Digital, Images, Open Access, Photographs, USA, World

LIFE Photo Archive

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A couple weeks ago Google come out with one more impressive online collection. This time it’s the LIFE Photo Archive. Most of us have probably seen the powerful images that...

Nov 19 2008

Digital, Europe, Images, Maps, Open Access, Technology, World

Google “recreates” Ancient Rome

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Google Earth has just created a new project which recreated Ancient Rome in all it’s glory. You can fly into the city, look into buildings and in general explore an entire...

Aug 27 2008

Images, Manuscripts, Open Access, World

Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Israel’s Antiquities Authority has begun digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls to make them available to everyone on the web. The project is an effort to preserve the remains of this...