Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
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Librarian and blogger Gary Price has compiled a 9/11 resource list that includes text, audio, and video resources from NPR, the Library of Congress, 9/11 Commission Hearings, and more. Additional resources include a media-timeline being collected through the September 11 Memorial & Museum and featuring photographs and videos taken by citizens during and in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
Digital image files not only store information that translates binary code into colors and shapes, they also contain metadata - data about data. Image metadata often includes technical information like ISO speed or file type, description of the photo’s contents, and licensing information. Metadata protects copyright, streamlines your work flow and helps you find the images you need – and then find them again.
The Photo Metadata Project, created by SAA (Stock Artists Alliances) and the Library of Congress, seeks to address “challenges we face in protecting identifying, and managing or digital photos” and provides resource lists, tutorials on how to embed metadata directly into your image files
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities have partnered to create Chronicling America, a newspaper database that allows you to view newspaper pages from 10 different states and dating from 1880-1910. Chronicling America also includes a search directory with access to information about newspapers collected from as early as 1690.
Newark Athlete from the Library of Congress’ collection of films from the Edison Company
The Library of Congress’ YouTube Channel includes a selection from their Early Film collection. The 1904 Westinghouse Works films illustrate turn of the century industry with panoramic views of factories, machines, and people working. The films from Edison Companies include athletes, contortionists, knife jugglers, Native American dancers as well as experiments in early sound recording.
Huexotzinco Codex, 1531, Library of Congress
The World Digital Library (WDL) will launch on April 21, 2009. First proposed in 2005 by Librarian of Congress Dr James Billington, the WDL will host a collections of images, films, and sound recordings from around the world. Contributors predominantly include American, European, and Middle Eastern collections, but efforts are being made to engage African countries in the project. As a repository for cultural artifacts, WDL offers unparalleled access to these resources and promotes propitious cross-cultural exchange.
For more information on the WDL read New Digital Library to Display World on a Website in The Gaurdian, or visit the World Digital Library news archives. To learn more about participating institutions click here.
The Library of Congress’ Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 includes moving images of traffic, parades, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, paperboys, shopping, construction of skyscrapers, street cleaners and subways.
Flickr: The Commons aims to increase access to photography archives. The program was launched with almost 5,000 images from the Library of Congress.
The Brooklyn Museum has also contributed images of historical architecture from the archive of William Henry Goodyear, architectural historian and curator. The collection includes hand-colored lantern slides documenting Egypt at the turn of the nineteenth century, the Paris Exposition, and the World’s Fair in Chicago.
From the Library of Congress Built in America site:
The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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