Category: Manuscripts

Feb 16 2009

Archives, Europe, Libraries, Manuscripts, Women, World

The Perdita Project

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The Perdita Project is a collaboration between the AHRB Center for Byzantine Cultural History, Nottingham Trent University, and The University of Warwick which gathers over 400 manuscripts collections from round...

Feb 12 2009

Libraries, Manuscripts, World

Happy Birthday Darwin

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If Darwin were still alive he’d be turning 200 today; and today just as during his lifetime his name still creates a buzz. All these years later there are still...

Jan 09 2009

Archives, Libraries, Manuscripts, USA, World

Rubén Blades’ collection to go to Harvard’s Music Library

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I grew up listening to Rubén Blades, -by far one of my favorite musicians-, and I just found out that he has agreed to donate his personal papers to the...

Oct 19 2008

Archives, Databases, Digital, Europe, Libraries, Manuscripts, Maps, National Libraries, Open Access, Photographs, Spain, World

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica

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Spain’s National Library has recently set the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica to highlight some of its most valuable items, including paintings, photographs, maps, and written texts spanning several centuries. The collection can...

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...

Jul 12 2008

Archives, Databases, Libraries, Manuscripts, Maps, Open Access, Photographs, USA

Alaska’s Digital Archives

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At ALA I sat in on a great presentation titled Digitizing Indian Country. The first presentation was on Alaska’s Digital Archives. The collection brings together photographs, oral histories, maps, moving images...

Mar 28 2008

Archives, Digital, Europe, Manuscripts, Technology, World

World’s First Audio Recording?

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Audio historian David Giovannoni seemed to have found the first human voice recording in a French patent office. The recording is of a human signing “Au Claire de la Lune”...

Mar 14 2008

Archives, Manuscripts, World

Guatemala to Open War Archives

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Back in late February Álvaro Colom (official website), Guatemala’s president announced that he would be opening the country’s military archives to the public. The announcement was made in honor of...

Feb 21 2008

Archives, Databases, Europe, Libraries, Manuscripts, World

Looted Cultural Goods

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This morning the New York Times had an article about two parallel art exhibits displaying art looted during WWII. The exhibit is a collaboration between France and Israel in aims...

Feb 06 2008

Databases, Manuscripts, Open Access, USA

Stephen J. Gould bequeaths his collection to Stanford

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The late Stephen J. Gould has bequeathed his entire collection to Stanford University, who intends to digitize much of it and create a “hyperlinked” version of it. An article in...