An European Community funded project “to create a reliable baseline of statistical data about digitization, digital preservation and online access to cultural heritage in Europe”.
An European Community funded project “to create a reliable baseline of statistical data about digitization, digital preservation and online access to cultural heritage in Europe”.
The International Council of Archives has just launched a new platform, a new space to to share information and to discuss about professionnal issues. Sort of a social network dedicated to archivist.
It is called OKE, Open Knowledge Exchanges.
A new site is born. It is called Historyphotography and it will focus on the first century of life of photography, 1839-1939. It is mainly in Italian with a touch of French.
Aim of Stipple is to “create an ecosystem for web images”. In (extra) short, it is about metadata that connect pictures with information about subjects and copyright.
Really interesting!
A new, very interesting on line tool. I quote from the homepage:
I think you all know the project of Photos Normandie. An on line photographic collection working on “redocumentarisation” with “crowdsourcing”.
The Bibliothèque de Cherbourg-Octeville is the first external partner to join the project, uploading on the flickr page of Photos Normandie, her photos on WWII. Patrick Peccatte, involved in the project, tells more about it in its blog.
Italian archival administration and a good number of archives, libraries and institutions have opened a portal on terrorism and political violence.
Google has a implemented a new tool for image searching: Sort by subject. It is sort of a visual help, as it suggests some categories for the subjects you are looking for. For instance, for “Pluto”, I’ve got “Pluto planet”, “Pluto dog”, “Pluto god”. In italian, it was different, as it was: “Plutone pianeta”, “Plutone e Caronte”, “Plutone simbolo”, “Plutone divinità”, “Plutone e Proserpina”, “Plutone Ade”.
In fact it is already available in different languages, among which English, French, Spanish and Italian, and the results are dissimilar.
Patrick Peccatte talks about it in its blog, pointing out some good and some bad features.