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NEW RESOURCES Spotted in my RSS feeds: the Oceania Web Atlas. From the landing page: “A curated directory of personal websites by people living in or from Oceania: Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, and other Pacific Islands.” Early days for this directory so don’t expect too much yet. TWEAKS AND UPDATES CNN: Open AI countersues Elon Musk to stop alleged harassment and…
NEW RESOURCES Found on LinkedIn, and in fact this is a LinkedIn Post: an online museum of outsider art. “The Swiss online museum http://www.outsider-art-brut.ch presents what is now a very extensive collection of Art Brut, free of charge and around the clock, 364 days a year and free of unwanted interruptions for advertising. Launched 13 years ago on a much smaller scale, the content of the…
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Visit Brazil’s Piratini Palace virtually on Google Arts & Culture.. “Brazil’s Piratini Palace is now open to virtual visitors on Google Arts & Culture. In the 1920s, the Palace became the administrative headquarters of the state government of Rio Grande do Sul.” TWEAKS AND UPDATES Press Gazette: PR industry alarmed at rise of fake commenters exposed by Press Gazette.…
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on Mastodon: a spreadsheet of 900 media outlets with a Fediverse presence. “I did it! Although it’s still very rough & really not pretty, I got my spreadsheet with (> 900) verified accounts of media organizations in the #Fediverse away from #Google. The solution was #DataTables all along.” TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Register: DOGE dilettantes ‘didn’t test’ Social Security fraud…
NEW RESOURCES Western University: Western Libraries Leads Web Archiving Efforts to Preserve Digital Records. “Recently, Western Libraries added a notable project to its archived collections: Cymbeline in the Anthropocene, created by adjunct professor Randall Martin in the department of English and writing studies. The project explores environmental themes in Shakespeare’s work and sets up new…
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Ars Technica: Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality. “The announcement touted Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick as major advancements, with Meta claiming top performance in their categories and an enormous 10 million token context window for Scout. But so far the open-weights models have received an initial mixed-to-negative reception…
NEW RESOURCES Found while working on my content curation: Webring List. Webrings are a vintage way to explore the Internet and lately it’s been making a comeback. From the page: “I did a search for these new-style webrings and have so far found the following. Most are for non-commerical, personal sites which is what webrings were originally made for. As the big webring systems have gone, it’s…
NEW RESOURCES Hillsboro Banner (North Dakota): Archives from Hatton, Reynolds newspapers digitized. “Genealogy buffs in the Hatton and Reynolds areas interested in tracing the roots of their family trees are in luck. More than 45,000 pages from the Hatton Free Press spanning more than 90 years and more than 5,300 pages taken from the long-since-closed Reynolds Enterprise from 1898 through 1926…
NEW RESOURCES In development and looking for contributions: Signs of the Time, a database of protest signs. I appreciate how much the submission guidelines are designed to protect privacy. TWEAKS AND UPDATES Digital Trends: Google Search’s latest easter egg lets you become a Pokémon Trainer. “Google just gave Pokémon fans a fun little surprise: a built-in Easter egg that lets you catch classic…
NEW RESOURCES University of Galway: University launches digitised archive of Threshold. “A new digital archive of Threshold, one of Northern Ireland’s longest-running literary periodicals of the 20th century, has been digitised and made available online from University of Galway Library Archives. The new digital archive includes more than 3,000 pages of all published issues of the journal,…
NEW RESOURCES Northeastern Global News: ‘The victims became the artists.’ New digital exhibition from Northeastern student shows writing was resistance during the Holocaust . “In a new digital exhibition, Max Berger, a Northeastern University student and Gideon Klein Scholar, delves into this clandestine society of Jews and how they used art, not weapons, to resist the Nazis and reassert their…
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Discover STEM stories from the Science Museum Group on Google Arts & Culture.. “The Science Museum Group’s latest digital stories are now on Google Arts & Culture. Inspired by their Wonderlab+ online hub, these narratives delve into scientific topics using the Science Museum Group collection.” TWEAKS AND UPDATES National Records of Scotland: Scottish Register records…
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: A palace of art online: Discover the Farnesina Collection. “More than just a static display, the Farnesina Collection actively promotes intercultural dialogue and understanding, featuring a diverse range of 20th-century Italian art, including works by masters like Piero Dorazio, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Arnaldo Pomodoro. Now, in partnership with Google Arts &…
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Library of Congress: Archiving an Island Nation: The Maldives Government Web Archive. “In this interview, Charlotte Giles discusses the Maldives Government Web Archive — how it was created, what it preserves, and why it is an important addition to the Library’s Asian Division. She shares examples of how the archive captures the unique perspective of an island nation…
NEW RESOURCES Royal Danish Library: Royal Danish Library’s DR-arkiv is now here. “Royal Danish Library is pleased to open the library’s DR-arkiv, which from day one gives all Danes the opportunity to explore up to one million radio and television programmes from 2006 to 2024. This extensive archive will be continuously expanded with more programmes.” TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Land: Google…
NEW RESOURCES Sunshine Coast News: Online photo collection offers chance to step back in time. “Thousands of images by a photographer who snapped people and places on the Sunshine Coast for more than 30 years are now available for all to see. Bill Robinson’s collection of 26,000 photos has been added to the Sunshine Coast Heritage Library for everyone to enjoy. The images document the region’s…
NEW RESOURCES CODART: New Catalogue of the Kremer Collection. “A new digital catalogue of the Kremer Collection has appeared. Founded in 1994 by George and Ilone Kremer, the Kremer Collection is a privately owned collection of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish old master paintings. Edited by Gregor J.M. Weber, the current catalogue details all 97 works presently in the collection.” Vermont…
