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Dec 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES UK Web Archive Blog: Datasheets for Web Archives Toolkit is now live. "This Toolkit provides information on the creation of datasheets for web archives datasets. The datasheet concept is based […]
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Dec 02, 2024
NEW RESOURCES NORAD: NORAD ready to track Santa's flight for 69th year . "The NORAD Tracks Santa website (www.noradsanta.org) will launch on Dec. 1. It features Santa's North Pole Village, which includes […]
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Dec 02, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Someone tagged me on Mastodon about a new social network: BlogFlock. From the landing page: "BlogFlock is a social network for reading, discovering, and sharing your favourite blogs and feeds […]
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Dec 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Franklin County Library System Brings a New Partnership and New Family Records!. "Thanks to our new partners at Franklin County Library System, we are excited to announce that nearly […]
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Dec 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Sonic State: Muzik Magazine Archive. "Music Magazines - remember them?! Yes, we once used PAPER to read things about music and here is some archival evidence courtesy of […]
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Nov 30, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Land: Google AI Overviews massively surge in travel queries. "Google AI Overviews are now showing for 30% of travel-related queries, as of the end of October, according […]
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Nov 30, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Library of Congress Blogs: Native American Languages, Alive at the Library. "Two important collections of Native American heritage have been digitized and placed on the Library's website, enabling readers and […]
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Nov 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Liverpool John Moores University: Malcolm Lowry archive celebrates Merseyside writer. "Malcolm Lowry's novel Under the Volcano is hailed a modern masterpiece and is regularly cited as one the 20th Century's […]
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Nov 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Ohio State University: Graduate students explore underground archive through ‘Picturing Black History' book project . "In a Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, limestone mine, 220 feet underground, you can find the […]
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Nov 28, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Manitoba: New online resource empowers parents-to-be with reliable medication information. "The hub, part of the Canadian Mother-Child Initiative on Drug Safety in Pregnancy - Outreach (CAMCCO-Outreach), offers bilingual […]
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Nov 28, 2024
NEW RESOURCES TechCrunch: Google Gemini's Imagen 3 lets players design their own chess pieces. "Google Labs, the experimental arm of the tech giant, has introduced a new online project that offers an […]
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Nov 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Recycling Today: ICCA releases Plastic Additives Database. "The International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) has released the first version of its Plastics Additives Database, which allows governments, regulators and relevant […]
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Nov 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Kentucky: UK Libraries celebrates opening of the American Archive of Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva . "UK Libraries has opened the American Archive of Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaeva, one […]
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Nov 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Daily Targum: U. institute launches archives on racial justice discussions, initiatives. "Earlier this month, the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) launched the Justice Archives, a […]
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Nov 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES GovInsider: Digital Public Infrastructure Map helps governments to understand the global state of play . "Earlier this year, David Eaves launched the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) map, a tool designed […]
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Nov 25, 2024
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Queens University Records Now Available Online!. "Thanks to our spectacular partners at Queens University of Charlotte, DigitalNC is pleased to announce a brand new collection of scrapbooks, newspapers, and […]
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Nov 25, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Daily Nous: A New Tool to Track and Analyze Philosophers' Mentions (guest post). "These and similar questions can now be answered.* A group of philosophers based at Tilburg University has […]
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Nov 24, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: UAMS Launches Arkansas Maternal Health Scorecard to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes. "The Arkansas Maternal Health Scorecard is an interactive and user-friendly collection of maternal […]
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Nov 24, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Tyler Fisher: Introducing Sill . "Today I'm excited to launch the public beta of Sill, my new social media tool. Sill connects to your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and aggregates […]
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Nov 23, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Boston Globe: Gloucester art collection goes online. "There are many familiar scenes from a city known for its history of luring artists — for its light and its community. Gloucester's […]
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Nov 23, 2024
NEW RESOURCES CODART: Witt Library Digitizes Photographs from the Netherlandish School. "More than 370,000 images from the Witt Library's Netherlandish collection have been digitized and published. Until now, these pictures could only […]
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Nov 22, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Tour Rio de Janeiro's cultural archives on Google Arts & Culture. "Rio de Janeiro, a city brimming with cultural treasures, is opening its historical archives to the world. […]
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Nov 22, 2024
NEW RESOURCES European Union: Meet the EU Sanctions Tracker app. "The EU Sanctions Tracker is a valuable resource for policymakers, researchers, and the public. It allows users to explore sanctions by individuals/entities, […]
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Nov 21, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Verge: This website unearths YouTube's lost and forgotten iPhone clips. "The ‘IMG_0001' website features a frame with an old TV static effect and a floating retro Panasonic remote that […]
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Nov 21, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Endowment for the Humanities: The Atlas of Drowned Towns. "Despite the number of towns in this country affected by hydroelectric projects, scholarship on the subject remains fragmented and limited. […]
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Nov 20, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Fold3 Blog: Korean War Era Draft Registration Cards Now Available on Fold3!. "We are pleased to announce that Korean War Era Draft Registration Cards from Alaska and Wyoming have been […]
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Nov 20, 2024
NEW RESOURCES ToDo Alicante: A Virtual Tour of Alicante's Snow Wells. "CENID, the Digital Intelligence Centre of Alicante province, driven by the Alicante Provincial Council, the University of Alicante, along with CaixaPetrer, […]
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Nov 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Learn about Peru's rich history through its National Library. "The National Library of Peru's doors are now open virtually for visitors worldwide through Google Arts & Culture. Explore […]
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Nov 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Loyola Marymount University: Professor Amanda Apgar Works with Students to Launch Open Access Database of Nearly 500 Memoirs by Parents of Disabled Children. "Over the course of researching her book […]
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Nov 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Government Technology: Software Engineer Maps Locations of License Plate Readers. "Will Freeman, a software engineer from Huntsville, is on a mission to show Americans how much they are being watched […]
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Nov 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Celebrating the National Gallery on Google Arts & Culture. "To celebrate two centuries of bringing people and paintings together, we are undertaking a year-long festival of art, creativity, […]
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Nov 17, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES DJ Magazine: YouTube testing AI-generated music remixes for creators' Shorts. "Per The Verge, Only a small group of creators using YouTube will be given access to the feature for […]
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Nov 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Penn Today: An updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0. "The 20-year-old Database of Early English Playbooks has become an invaluable resource for research on Shakespeare and many other […]
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Nov 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Stockholm Environment Institute: The new interactive Fossil Fuel Atlas reveals fossil fuel infrastructure and its threats to protected areas across the globe. "The Fossil Fuel Atlas? is a new tool […]
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Nov 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Cardinal News: New database reveals extent of solar push in Southside. "The Virginia Solar Database aggregates publicly available information on more than 490 projects that are each over 1 megawatt […]
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Nov 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Radio Free Europe: The Volunteers Who Revived ‘Romania's Life Magazine'. "This image, of Romanian youngsters walking on stilts, is one of more than 5,000 photos published online in early November […]
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Nov 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Khmer Times: ECCC launches legacy website to foster greater awareness of Khmer Rouge Trials. "The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced Monday the beta launch of its […]
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Nov 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Untapped New York: Map of Over a Billion NYC Subway Rides Reveals Hidden Connections. "What could we learn about life in New York City from looking at all one billion […]
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Nov 06, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Found on Calishat Snaps: Streamin, a search engine for streaming media content. From the front page: "Streamin is your ultimate streaming guide, designed to help you discover where to watch […]
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Nov 05, 2024
EVENTS Cornell Chronicle: Food waste solution wins top prize at hackathon. "A team of students with an idea using AI to help food service establishments reduce food waste won the top prize […]
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Nov 05, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Minnesota Star Tribune: Check this Minnesota map to find out if your home's drinking water comes through a lead pipe. "Minnesotans can use a new tool to check whether a […]
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Nov 04, 2024
NEW RESOURCES UK Government: New tool to make it easier and faster for public to access essential government services online. "GOV.UK Forms will transform how the public fill out applications and forms […]
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Nov 04, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Astrobiology: Database of Candidate Targets for the LIFE Mission. "We present the database of potential targets for the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE), a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer mission proposed […]
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Nov 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Newberry: Newly digitized map collection makes over 750 sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maps available online.. "The Newberry has recently completed the digitization of over 750 maps printed in Italy during […]
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Nov 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Greek Reporter: Greek-Canadian Archives at York University Goes Digital. "As a result of a donation of newspapers, the Hellenic Canadian Archives now possesses one of the most comprehensive collections of […]
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Nov 02, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES CBS News: U.S. officials say Russia was behind fake video of alleged voter fraud in Georgia. "U.S. officials have determined Russia was behind a video that circulated online in […]
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Nov 02, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Old Dominion University: Mace & Crown Archive Goes Digital, Offers Glimpse into ODU's History. "Now, more than 60 years of Old Dominion University's history - as reported by its students […]
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Nov 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA): CISA Launches #PROTECT2024 Election Threat Updates Webpage. "As foreign actors continue their efforts to influence and interfere with the 2024 elections, CISA is ensuring […]
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Nov 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Death Penalty Information Center: New Resource: Database of Capital Appeals Dismissed Solely Because of Missed Deadlines. "The Death Penalty Information Center is pleased to share a powerful new resource illustrating […]
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Oct 31, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Scoop NZ: Auckland Zoo's New Online Conservation Learning Platform Opens Up World Of Opportunity For All. "A wide range of free modules - from an ‘Introduction to Backyard Conservation', ‘Awesome […]
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Oct 31, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Pennsylvania Pressroom: Shapiro Administration Launches New One-Stop Grant Search Tool to Streamline Pennsylvanians' Access to Government Funding Opportunities . "The new discovery tool allows users to search for, sort, and […]
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Oct 30, 2024
This is late because I did a presentation for APRA Wisconsin today. Thanks for everybody who turned up and listened to me froth about Internet search. NEW RESOURCES The Buckeye Flame: Shift […]
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Oct 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES RIBA Journal: ‘World's largest' life-cycle assessment database launches. "Architects can compare the carbon impact of more than 250,000 construction products side by side in what's thought to be the world's […]
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Oct 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES UNESCO: UNESCO Archives in Venice: a gateway to cultural heritage. "Venice's cultural heritage, rich in historic buildings and priceless artworks, has faced significant threats over the last decades. Environmental factors […]
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Oct 28, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Found via Calishat Snaps: Bluesky Video Downloader. From the page: "Bluesky video downloader is an online web app to download bluesky videos to your computer or mobile phone directly." TWEAKS […]
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Oct 27, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Financial Times: Musk's X to undershoot revenue goals from political advertising. "Elon Musk's X is on track to fall well short of its goal of bringing in $100mn in […]
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Oct 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES USGS: USGS Releases New Products that Map Four Decades of Land Cover Change. "The updated land cover database now offers data starting in 1985 and in one-year increments—an improvement over […]
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Oct 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Belga News Agency: Database gathers information on Belgian resistance activities during WWII. "Eighty years after the liberation of Belgium and the end of World War II, a new database brings […]
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Oct 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Environment America Research & Policy Center: New report: Wind & solar energy tripled in US over past decade. "The United States produced more than three times as much solar, wind […]
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Oct 25, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Arkansas at Little Rock: UA Little Rock Unveils New Website Tracking Over a Century of Little Rock's History. "The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has debuted a […]
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Oct 25, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Colorado Sun: Coloradans can now compare hospital prices for specific procedures, insurance plans. "Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday announced a new website… where people can look up various procedures performed […]
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Oct 24, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Nature4Climate: The Nature Tech Directory: new database tracks 1,000 companies worldwide applying nature tech solutions . "The Nature4Climate and Nature Tech Memos launched ‘The Nature Tech Directory' today, a new […]
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Oct 24, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from NREL: Dive Into a Lake of Data: Open Energy Data Initiative Increases Big Data Access for Everyone. "Accessible from OpenEI, OEDI is a centralized location that can house […]
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Oct 23, 2024
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: Introducing the World War II Primary Source Sets. "We are pleased to announce the addition of two new primary source sets on our site, the World War II, Part […]
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Oct 23, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Broadway World: New Legacy Website Announced For Legendary Comic Playwright George S. Kaufman . "Produced by Laurence Maslon, Trustee of The George S. Kaufman Literary Trust and musical theater historian […]
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Oct 22, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Textile World: Society Of Dyers And Colourists Unveils Spectacular Digital Textile Collection Archive. "Featuring more than 50,000 artefacts, journals, and books - such as the Turkey Red Collection and handwritten […]
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Oct 22, 2024
I'll be speaking virtually via Zoom to Apra Wisconsin on Wednesday, October 30th from 12pm - 1pm CDT. The topic is "Avoiding Infoslop During Your Web Search." Over the last two years […]
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Oct 21, 2024
NEW RESOURCES WHYY: A digital archive of Philly artists with disabilities finds physical form at the Painted Bride. "Pamela Price, who just turned 65, wants everyone to know everything about her. The […]
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Oct 21, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Legal Defense Fund: LDF's Thurgood Marshall Institute Launches New Digital Archive, Gives Public Access to Powerful Civil Rights History. "Today, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF)'s Thurgood Marshall Institute announced the […]
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Oct 20, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Midwest Messenger: Results of annual research trials may be available within hours, officials say. "Kansas State University agronomists have reached into the powerful world of digital technology to make more […]
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Oct 20, 2024
NEW RESOURCES StateScoop: New website tracks government's many digital services teams. "The new Government Digital Service Team Tracker, which was published on the Digital Service Network's new Digital Government Hub reference website […]
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Oct 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me: Yugologo, an archive of business logos from the former Yugoslavia. From the About page: "The basic starting point of the project lies in the fact that most of these […]
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Oct 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Resilience: Archiving Ancestral Knowledge to Co-Create New Economic Paradigms. "Reviving the Mapuche language and honoring traditional leadership emerged as pivotal elements in the quest to safeguard and promote Mapuche heritage. […]
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Oct 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Alliance for Climate Transition: Is the government making hurricanes? New misinformation tracker debunks climate myths.. "In an effort to make debunking climate myths faster and easier, a New England nonprofit […]
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Oct 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Coram: 100,000 pages of records from Coram's Foundling Hospital Archive made available online to public for first time. "Almost 100,000 pages of records from the Foundling Hospital, England's first home […]
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Oct 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The City Paper: Banco de la República unveils virtual library of Brian Moser's legacy in Colombia. "Over a career that spanned more than five decades, [Brian] Moser (1935-2023) amassed a […]
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Oct 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Yale Daily News: Nonprofit ArtAround maps and preserves public art in New Haven and beyond. "Mapping public art across the United States, Lindsey Mancini spotlights urban creativity through […]
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Oct 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Prism: A new digital archive makes public the trials and triumphs of jailhouse lawyers. "The public is getting a glimpse into the trials and triumphs of jailhouse lawyers through the […]
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Oct 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Bibliothèque Nationale de France: "Shared Heritage", a digital collection from the BnF New digital library ‘France - South Asia' to discover on October 15. This link goes to a French […]
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Oct 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES H-Announce: Announcing the launch of a new database— "Retracing the Bell Route: An Archive of Cherokee Removal". "In commemoration of Indigenous Peoples' Day (October 14th), ‘Retracing the Bell Route: An […]
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Oct 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Los Angeles Magazine: A New Book Uncovers L.A.s Most Unique and Unexpected Museums. "[Todd Lerew] has spent years rounding up hundreds of institutions dedicated to esoterica like 1980s personal computers […]
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Oct 14, 2024
Queue's out of hand again, so enjoy this extra issue. NEW RESOURCES Metromode: New website shows off Michigan's B&Bs to promote industry comeback. "Now, the Michigan Bed and Breakfast Association has created […]
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Oct 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Arkansas: Libraries Publish New Digital Collection: Flooding and Flood Control in Arkansas. "The University Libraries Digital Services Department has published a new digital collection, Flooding and Flood Control […]
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Oct 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES German Marshall Fund: Spitting Images: Tracking Deepfakes and Generative AI in Elections. "…generative artificial intelligence has democratized the ability to create realistic fake or altered images, videos, and audio recordings—including […]
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Oct 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Portugal News: Celebrating the Anglo-Portuguese News Legacy. "Dating back to 1937, The Anglo-Portuguese News was the main English language newspaper in Portugal, published throughout most of the twentieth century. […]
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Oct 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Jewish News Syndicate: Ethiopian Jewish holy books digitized in Jerusalem. "A collection of rare holy books and manuscripts from the Ethiopian Jewish community written in Ge'ez, an ancient South Semitic […]
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Oct 12, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of California San Francisco: UCSF Health Atlas Expands Its Reach with Nationwide Mapping Tool. "UCSF Health Atlas, an interactive mapping tool for measuring health inequities that debuted just as […]
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Oct 12, 2024
NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: A Sneak Peak at the Newly Available Sandhills Community College Student Newspaper!. "Thanks to our partners at Sandhills Community College, we are excited to announce that issues from the […]
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Oct 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Odessa Journal: The digital archive of documents on the Russian-Ukrainian war has collected over 4,000 documents from various regions of Ukraine. "The V. G. Korolenko Kharkiv State Scientific Library, with […]
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Oct 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Fast Company: Jeff Koons just uploaded his entire catalog of art to the internet for the first time. "For the first time ever, Jeff Koons' entire catalog is on a […]
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Oct 10, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Earth.org: New Global Tool Highlights Nature Conservation Efforts Across 180 Countries. "As global leaders focus on conserving biodiversity in the face of rapid development, the newly launched Nature Conservation Index […]
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Oct 10, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES FEMA: Addressing Hurricane Helene Rumors and Scams. "The high volume of rumors and misinformation in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene has caused confusion and threatens important response and recovery […]
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Oct 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Fred Hutch Cancer Center: Fred Hutch launches Atlas of Inspiring Hispanic/Latinx Scientists. "To highlight and celebrate the many contributions of Hispanic and Latinx scientists, Fred Hutch Cancer Center has launched […]
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Oct 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES McGill University: New global database of dams and reservoirs could transform water management . "A groundbreaking database developed by the Global Dam Watch (GDW) consortium is set to transform the […]
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Oct 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Mixmag: New database of Asian musicians, DJs, producers and more launched. "A new music database for musicians, producers, DJs and presenters with Asian heritage has launched today (October 7). Family […]
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Oct 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Resources: From 1959 Through Today: 65 Years of Resources Magazine. "The past 65 years of Resources—the full archive of articles dating back to the start of the magazine in 1959—are […]
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Oct 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Saipan Tribune: NMHC announces public access to historic records on Digital Archive. "As part of executive director Leo Pangelinan's legacy and vision, the Northern Marianas Humanities Council has officially announced […]
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Oct 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES United Arab Emirates Ministry of Economy: Ministry of Economy launches National Economic Registry ‘Growth' to support the UAE's efforts in providing proactive government services. "The Ministry of Economy announced the […]
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Oct 06, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES ZDNet: World Wide Web Foundation to close, as Berners-Lee shifts focus to Solid Protocol. "In a surprising announcement, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Rosemary Leith, co-founder […]
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Oct 06, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Kelley Blue Book: New Tool Helps Car Shoppers Find EV Rebates. "The nonprofit Electric For All has created a new EV incentive search tool that tells you which federal, state, […]
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