This is an article written by Ward Wijndelts
Just like last week, I’d like to share with you an interesting piece of information about digitization. Last week it was a movie, this time it’s a beautiful lecture (in digital form, so actually it’s more like an article) by Jim Reid-Cunningham about libraries in the age of digitization.
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This is an article written by Carlijn Vis.
Feel like a WWII-spy: check out these illegal newspapers.
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Due to lack of time a short post tonight: I found another beautiful online archive with many paintings from the National Galleries of Scotland. One of the pearls behind the click. Enjoy your journey!
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This is an article written by Ward Wijndelts
The Victorian poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett fell madly in love and wrote many letters to each other. The are all digitized and hot.
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This is an article written by Ward Wijndelts.
Krissy Wilson looks at the Google Books project not as a huge collection of digitized books, but as a ‘rephotography’ project with lots of glitches. She started a wonderful curation blog to show us what she means.
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This is an article written by Carlijn Vis.
Not every pearl is digital. Three Dutch girls found a beautiful ‘offline’ pearl in the wall of a house in Amsterdam. Read her story
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Due to lack of time no pearl today, but a very interesting video of the proces of digitization. In fact: the first steps of any serious online archive.
