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Feb 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES WPRI: Rhode Island officially launches ‘Rental Registry' database. "The Rhode Island Department of Health unveiled its Rental Registry public database Wednesday, which allows renters and prospective tenants to check whether […]
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Feb 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Map Room: GeoFeeds. "Nearly 20 years ago, James Fee launched Planet Geospatial, which aggregated all the GIS, geospatial and map blogs into a single feed. It's been gone for […]
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Feb 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Boston Herald: Massachusetts launches ‘user-friendly' tool for veterans to access financial benefits. "Massachusetts veterans and their families seeking financial assistance can now use a tool that state officials say is […]
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Feb 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES USPTO: USPTO launches new Open Data Portal for easy, quick access to data. "As we modernize our systems and improve customer experience, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched […]
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Feb 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Historic Environment Scotland: Unlock Scotland's past with trove.scot. "Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has today launched trove.scot, its new digital portal for the historic environment. Users can now delve into Scotland's […]
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Feb 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Boing Boing: Game Font Library is a library of game fonts. "Wondering what typeface was used in any given video game? Charlotte Couderc's Game Font Library is exactly […]
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Feb 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES EdSource: New Stanford database tracks learning loss, gain in California and districts nationwide. "A unique database that enables people to compare standardized test scores among nearly all districts and states […]
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Feb 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES United States Courts: New Tool Helps Public Find Local Court Civics Resources and Programs. "Federal courts regularly engage in public outreach and civics education efforts. A new interactive civics map […]
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Feb 14, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Register: After Copilot trial, government staff rated Microsoft's AI less useful than expected. "Australia's Department of the Treasury has found that Microsoft's Copilot can easily deliver return on […]
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Feb 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Konstanz: Mapping the quality of public transportation in Germany. "How good is the public transportation from your home address? For an objective perspective, you can check the interactive […]
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Feb 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Hürriyet Daily News: Website listing supermarket prices may help fight inflation. "The searchable website… lists the current prices of goods sold by seven chain supermarkets, including discount grocers, across various […]
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Feb 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National University of Singapore: The largest collection of caricatures of Charles Darwin and evolution in history unveiled. "On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National […]
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Feb 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Pragmatika: An online database of abandoned Jewish tombstones has been created in Lviv. "An online database of transcriptions and translations of Jewish matzevs (tombstones) found in the city has been […]
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Feb 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Museo Galileo: A Digital Library on Women and Astronomy: a project of participatory history of science. "On February 11 th , on the occasion of the International Day of Women […]
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Feb 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of California: California launches dashboard to track LA recovery, adds new services finder to connect firestorm survivors with resources. "California launched a new dashboard on the CA.gov/LAfires website to […]
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Feb 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Discovered via Calishat Snaps: TimePortal: an Internet Archive explorer. From the front page if you click the "Filter Content" button: "Explore the Internet Archive's vast collection through time. Discover historical […]
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Feb 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Art Daily: Goya in print: The Prado Museum unveils groundbreaking online archive. "‘The Inventory of Printed References. 1771-1828' is the world's first comprehensive collection of every printed mention of the […]
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Feb 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES The Harvard Crimson: Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab Launches U.S. Federal Data Vault. "The Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab published a vast collection of federal datasets on Thursday, […]
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Feb 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Coast TV: Delaware launches website to support immigrant students in schools. "Delaware Secretary of Education, Cindy Marten, has launched a new website providing guidance and resources for educators and families […]
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Feb 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Maynooth University: MU and Regional Assemblies launch National Census Atlas dashboard . "Ireland's three Regional Assemblies, in collaboration with the All-Island Research Observatory (AIRO) at Maynooth University, have launched the […]
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Feb 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Austrian National Library, and machine-translated from German: The Eugeniana Library is now digitally accessible. "Prince Eugene was not only a master strategist, but also a remarkable patron of the arts […]
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Feb 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New York State: Governor Hochul Announces Launch of New 25 Million Trees Initiative ‘Tree Tracker'. "Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the launch of a new webpage and interactive tracking tool […]
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Feb 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES FAU: The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials 1946-1949: Digitalization project launched. "The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials started immediately after the Nuremberg Trials against the main war criminals of the Second World War. Unlike […]
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Feb 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Maryland: Database Co-produced by UMD Undergrad Is First to Document Tornadoes Worldwide. "The world's oldest documented tornado likely occurred in Sardinia in 200 AD. What's probably the northernmost […]
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Feb 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Scottish Refugee Council: New Scots Connect Map makes it easier for refugees to find help. "The New Scots Connect Map is an online directory of groups and organisations offering services […]
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Feb 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on Calishat Snaps: StartupSeeker, with a tag line of "Semantic Search for Startups". Over 135K startups are indexed in the engine. I did a search for "agrivoltaics companies started […]
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Feb 05, 2025
EVENTS Flickr Blog: A sneak peek into party planning for Flickr's 21st Birthday!. "On February 10th, Flickr will be celebrating its 21st birthday. We'll be toasting to 21 years of defying the […]
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Feb 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of Wollongong: World-first database unlocks the secrets of Antarctica's many species. "The Antarctic Terrestrial Database, assembled by researchers from the Australian Antarctic Division, the British Antarctic Survey, and the […]
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Feb 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Government of Western Australia: Online database sheds new light on Wadjemup/Rottnest Island incarcerations. "For about 100 years to 1931, more than 4000 Aboriginal men and a small number of boys […]
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Feb 04, 2025
NEW RESOURCES National Association of Home Builders: New Metro Area Dashboard from NAHB Provides Localized Housing Market Insights. "Free to the public, the Metro Area Dashboard offers the latest data on each […]
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Feb 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES UC Riverside: Project helps preserve architectural photographs . "Architectural photographs from countries around the globe, including images from 1980s Middle East, Mongolia, and China, will soon be available via a […]
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Feb 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Cornell Chronicle: Student spins spreadsheet into online hub for wildfire relief. "Johan Michalove is nearly 3,000 miles from the Los Angeles wildfires, but that didn't stop him from pitching in. […]
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Feb 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES EIN Presswire: First Comprehensive Searchable Database of Holocaust Educational Resources Launches (PRESS RELEASE). "Known as the only organization that provides grants nationwide directly to teachers, the MSHEF funds Holocaust resources […]
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Feb 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Codart: New Digital Resource for Flemish Tapestries in Spanish Collections. "Approximately 150 tapestries from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, housed in Spanish public collections, are featured on the website. Users […]
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Feb 01, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Land: Search ad spending surged in Q4 2024, with retail media leading: report. "The holiday season saw a significant increase in digital ad spending across retail media, […]
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Feb 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New York Botanical Garden: Updates from the Archives: Making Institutional Records More Accessible. "Thanks to a generous grant from Shelby White and the Leon Levy Foundation, the LuEsther T. Mertz […]
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Jan 31, 2025
EVENTS Hollywood Reporter: AI Commercials Are Going to Take Over the Super Bowl This Year. "Just look a few years back when crypto-related ads were everywhere, or the slow and steady rise […]
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Jan 31, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Chicago Reader: Weaving a future for textile art. "Part artist collective, part online database, Textile Stories is a community project focused on preserving traditional Latin American weaving techniques and promoting […]
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Jan 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Eugene Register-Guard: How are Oregon students performing? A new website breaks it down. "The Oregon Department of Education has launched a new website — a reimagined portal that breaks down […]
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Jan 30, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Found in a few of my RSS feeds: Unplatform. From the front page: "Unplatform is an interactive guidebook, online library, and recommendations database intended to help you escape social media […]
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Jan 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Texas Jewish Post: Israel releases Eichmann trial records for Holocaust Remembrance Day. "The Israel State Archives released a searchable digital collection on Monday of 380,000 pages from the 1961 Jerusalem […]
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Jan 29, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Wiener Holocaust Library: Wiener Digital Collections: Thousands of pages documenting Nazi persecution digitised for unprecedented online access. "To mark International Holocaust Memorial Day, the Wiener Holocaust Library, one of the […]
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Jan 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: New Photographs from Lee County Libraries Present a Rich Visual Source for Black History in Lee County. "We are excited to announce that new photographs from The Sanford Herald […]
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Jan 28, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Polygon: The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week. "Starting Jan. 30, the Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) will be opening its digital archives […]
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Jan 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Geoscience BC: Geoscience BC Publishes BC Mine Tailings and Waste Rock Compilation. "The digital compilation includes mineral occurrences, geographic, environmental and infrastructure data to produce a geospatial project containing the […]
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Jan 27, 2025
NEW RESOURCES ICLG: UK launches new patent search tool. "One IPO Search features several enhancements designed to make UK patent searches more accessible and user-friendly. Users can now perform simple keyword searches […]
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Jan 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Writer's Digest: Presenting the Writer's Digest Digital Archive!. "It's a project that's been talked about and attempted since before I joined WD 8 years ago: digitizing the full collection of […]
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Jan 26, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Space: 3 years of James Webb Space Telescope data on alien worlds now available online. "In celebration of three years of exoplanet science from the JWST, Joshua Lothringer, an assistant […]
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Jan 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Penn Today: An online resource for learners across the Italian language community. "The PRIMA site was designed to be used via two approaches: a traditional level-based format, where users can […]
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Jan 25, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University College Dublin: Mulcahy papers chronicling Ireland's revolutionary history digitised to enhance availability worldwide. "The papers of twentieth-century Irish revolutionary and political leader General Richard Mulcahy will be digitally available […]
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Jan 24, 2025
NEW RESOURCES UNC: New website will help NC college students learn about food assistance benefits. "A new online resource, NCCollegeFoodBenefits.org, is aiming to reduce food insecurity among college students in North Carolina […]
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Jan 24, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES MIT Press: MIT Press's Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal for 2025, opens access to 80 new monographs. "The MIT Press is pleased to announce that Direct to […]
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Jan 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Fold3: New Virginia Military Record Collection!. "We are pleased to announce a new collection of Virginia military records. The Virginia Department of Military Affairs Records Collection contains information on Virginia […]
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Jan 23, 2025
NEW RESOURCES University of California: UC ANR Fire Network shares resources on reducing impacts of wildfire, smoke. "The Fire Network is a team of UC Cooperative Extension fire and natural resource advisors, […]
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Jan 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Route Fifty: Feds offer new data, research to refresh states' water woes. "To help officials identify where water shortages exist, where surpluses are located and the quality of water supply […]
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Jan 22, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Concordia University: Concordia unveils a comprehensive professional French terminology database. "The work involved was monumental, with more than 4,500 entries. Now anyone can easily access a vast database of specialized […]
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Jan 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Environmental Defense Fund: New Interactive Map Shows Nationwide Pollution from Gas Turbines. "The website, Clearing the Air, has information about gas turbines - how they work, the types of pollution […]
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Jan 21, 2025
NEW RESOURCES ABC News (Australia): CSIRO, WWF and Australian government team up to launch AdaptLog conservation solutions project. "The online resource is unique in Australia — a list of innovative conservation projects […]
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Jan 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES CISA: CISA Releases the JCDC AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook and Fact Sheet. "Today, CISA released the JCDC AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook and Fact Sheet to foster operational collaboration among government, […]
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Jan 20, 2025
NEW RESOURCES ProPublica: ProPublica Releases New Private School Demographics Lookup. "Today, we are releasing the Private School Demographics database. This is the first time anyone has taken past surveys and made them […]
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Jan 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Anglican Journal: Digitization of Anglican Video archives a ‘gift to historians'. "Video footage of all General Synods going back to 1988 and documentaries of all 11 Sacred Circles has now […]
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Jan 19, 2025
With the TikTok ban underway but uncertain and the whole social media landscape shifting again, I wanted to remind you about some resources I've made available for the Mastodon social media network […]
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Jan 19, 2025
NEW RESOURCES r/flightsim: Need a flight that fits your schedule? I built a free tool that matches routes to your time - from quick GA hops to real airline schedules. "I'd like […]
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Jan 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of Colorado: CDPHE launches updated mapping tool that illustrates areas disproportionately affected by pollution. "The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is announcing the launch of Colorado EnviroScreen […]
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Jan 18, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Museums Heritage Advisor: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust reveals 3D ‘spatial archive' of Hall's Croft. "A new online archive has been created which offers online access to Hall's Croft, the home of Susanna, […]
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Jan 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES My Press Alert: Introducing MyPressAlert Beta: Real-Time News Monitoring with AI. "Today marks the beta launch of MyPressAlert - a revolutionary platform that monitors news broadcasts in real time and […]
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Jan 17, 2025
NEW RESOURCES International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: New platform draws on investigative journalism to identify cross-border patterns of corruption. "… a new platform spearheaded by ICIJ member Milagros Salazar, aims to help […]
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Jan 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Boing Boing: A new hardware hacking wiki. "HardBreak is a new hardware hacking wiki created by Jonas Rosenberger, with an associated GitHub, Discord forum and LinkedIn page. There's an overview […]
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Jan 16, 2025
NEW RESOURCES George Mason University: George Mason and Virginia Tech collaborate to build science policy connections. "The team created a database of U.S. science policy programs and conducted a case study of […]
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Jan 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Reclaim the Records: The BIRLS Database. "The Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) database was originally created and maintained by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (the […]
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Jan 15, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Mass General Brigham: ‘TrueFood' Research Database Offers Rankings for 50,000 Processed Foods. "The researchers gathered and analyzed the ingredient lists, nutrition facts and prices of foods available in three leading […]
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Jan 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES La MaMa Archives' Blog: Staging Shock: a new digital exhibit. "As an experimental theater company, La MaMa was one of the city's first creative houses to address the raw sensations […]
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Jan 14, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Vicksburg Daily News: Law Library adds Territorial court records from more than 200 years ago found in Vicksburg . "Records of the Supreme Court of the Mississippi Territory spanning 1799 […]
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Jan 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from SoraNews24: Travel through time with these old maps from the Zenrin Virtual Museum. "Putting their decades of experience in the map-making business to good use, Zenrin's Virtual Museum […]
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Jan 13, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Past is Present: Ephemera Explored: Over 40,000 New Images Give Glimpses into 19th-Century American Life. "With the completion of a recent project, more than 40,000 new images of ephemera were […]
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Jan 12, 2025
NEW RESOURCES State of California: Los Angeles wildfire survivors can apply for federal aid today, new website launched to help Californians. "Now that a Major Disaster has been declared by President Joe […]
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Jan 12, 2025
EVENTS Naval Postgraduate School: NPS Hosts AI Hackathon for Students to Solve Military Operational Problems. "The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently hosted its inaugural artificial intelligence (AI) Hackathon event in the newly […]
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Jan 11, 2025
EVENTS The Register: Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025. "As they have for the past several years, a group of repairability, sustainability, and privacy […]
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Jan 11, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Deutsche Welle: Geolocation made easy with new DW tool SPOT. "Natural language prompts enable users to describe the prominent geographic features they see in an image, such as landmarks, infrastructure, […]
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Jan 10, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Roundtable: Reddit Not Ranking As Well In Google Suddenly?. "It seems like Reddit, the site that ranks well for every single query in Google Search, is starting […]
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Jan 10, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Nature: ‘WithdrarXiv' database of 14,000 retracted preprints launches. "Researchers have launched a database of more than 14,000 studies that have been withdrawn from the preprint server arXiv since its launch […]
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Jan 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Public Domain Review: Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive. "After the hundreds (thousands?) of hours trawling through online image collections since the PDR's inception, we've decided it was time to […]
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Jan 09, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Chicago Reader: A private collection of 10,000 Chicago show tapes finds a public home. "Jacobs taped concerts for his own satisfaction. Though he sometimes shared his recordings with the musicians, […]
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Jan 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES NIST: NIST Database Can Help Increase Recycling of Textiles and Clothing. "… according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in 2018 around 85% of used clothes and textiles headed to […]
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Jan 08, 2025
NEW RESOURCES UC Santa Cruz: New strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa is a powerful tool for archaeology, forensics, and wildlife conservation. "The map will help archaeologists, conservation scientists, and forensics experts […]
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Jan 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES KLKN: Nebraska treasurer announces new website that tracks state spending. "Nebraska State Treasurer Tom Briese announced a new website Monday that tracks every penny spent by the state…. The site […]
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Jan 07, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Government of New South Wales, Australia: NSW Herbarium goes global with state-of-the-art platform. "People from around the world can now access digital records of more than one million plants with […]
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Jan 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Drumheller Online: Province Adds New Tool Discovering History Of Alberta Placenames. "A new online tool gives Albertans the ability to learn the origins of place names across the province. The […]
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Jan 06, 2025
NEW RESOURCES KSMU: WashU digital archive details the Founding Fathers' vision of government. "What kind of government did the founding fathers envision? Peter Kastor, a professor of history at Washington University, has […]
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Jan 05, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES MediaPost: Google Sends Promised Funds To Canadian Journalism Collective. "Google has sent $100 million (U.S. $69 million) it agreed to pay Canadian news outlets in exchange for an exemption […]
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Jan 05, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Arizona Department of Health Services: Arizona Department of Health Services Launches Public Health Data Portal. "The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) is proud to announce the launch of the […]
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Jan 04, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Library of Congress: Beta Release of Library of Congress Web Archives Playback Services. "As described in our prior?blog post, we?have been?in the process of modernizing and making improvements to […]
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Jan 04, 2025
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Bleeping Computer: New details reveal how hackers hijacked 35 Google Chrome extensions. "New details have emerged about a phishing campaign targeting Chrome browser extension developers that led to the […]
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Jan 03, 2025
EVENTS Discover Magazine: Celebrate #MuseumSelfieDay on January 15!. "#MuseumSelfie Day is the perfect blend of art, culture, history—and selfies! Mark your calendars now for January 15, 2025. Mar Dixon, a leader in […]
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Jan 03, 2025
NEW RESOURCES PLANSPONSOR: DOL Launches Database for Retirement Savings Lost and Found. "Created as part of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, the database serves as a centralized location where individuals or […]
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Jan 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES arXiv: BioTD: an online database of biotoxins. "A number of venom-derived drugs are already available on the market, with many more candidates currently undergoing clinical and laboratory studies. However, drug […]
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Jan 02, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Homegrown (India): A New Digital Archive Is Tracing The Micro-Histories Of Migration In East India . "In the modern age, migration has shaped and reshaped societies across the world. In […]
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Jan 01, 2025
USEFUL STUFF MakeUseOf: 9 Tricks to Make Google Photos Search Work Smarter for You. "In the old days, finding a photo meant having to scroll through your gallery endlessly. Fortunately, that's not […]
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Jan 01, 2025
NEW RESOURCES Taiwan News: Taiwan's Academia Historica digitizes Chiang family diaries. "Academia Historica announced on Monday that the fourth batch of Chiang family diaries is now available to the public via a […]
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Dec 31, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES TorrentFreak: More Than Half of All Google Search Takedowns Now Come from Link-Busters. "Link-Busters is the unofficial DMCA takedown champion of 2024. The anti-piracy outfit works for many of […]
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