I've written a little post about the National Library of Australia's collection of archived websites in Pandora and the new #GLAMWorkbench section that helps you to work with the data.
Want to find websites from Australian elections back to 1996? Just go to Pandora. Want all the urls in a spreadsheet? Just run my new notebook.
Required reading for historians, archivists, and librarians in and of Canada on the cuts suffered by Library and Archives Canada over the past 15-20 years. @histodons
Danielle Robichaud, "Contextualizing a Scandal: A Brief History of Library and Archives Canada"
At @letterformarchive I’m always wishing to share the many bits of object info our staff knows (or wonders about), but the public never gets to see.
Then comes @thisisaaronland of SFO Museum, who just posted a talk on using “tools in conjunction with ideas like an on-going curatorial file meant for public consumption, as a way demonstrate proof of life in our collections and to allow the public to engage with them on playing fields they recognize and understand.” https://aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
Dr Vunidilo has called for the Australian government to help return Pacific remains with "the same energy" it gives to repatriating Aboriginal ancestral remains back to country from overseas.
"Our neighbouring countries of Australia and New Zealand can learn from European countries too, like Germany and France as they are opening up their vaults to return ancestral remains to where they truly belong," she said.
It also includes a new option to mask the image. If this is checked the app will try and snip the article out of the page, rather than just cropping to a box around it. #GLAM#histodons#digitalHumanities#ozHist
About five years ago I created a collection of full-page editorial cartoons from The Bulletin, harvested from #Trove. Through a process that might be politely described as ‘iterative’, I fiddled with an assortment of queries and methods until I had at least one cartoon from every issue published between 4 September 1886 and 17 September 1952 – 3,471 cartoons in total.
"…a November judgment from the UK Court of Appeal means #museums can’t go on claiming #copyright in photographs of #publicdomain art works. Museums have used this claim to create costly licensing schemes. For art history books and dissertations that need the images for discussion, the costs are often prohibitive. And, it turns out, the #GLAM sector isn’t even profiting from it."