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51 bookmarks by garrettc
"The Rewind archive contains tens of thousands of individual clips from the BBC's news and current affairs output from across the UK, including both regional and national programmes, from the late 1940s to 2021."
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"This curated collection is part of a broader research endeavor in which data, sonification and design converge to explore the potential of sound in complementing other modes of representation and broadening the publics of data. With visualization still being one of the prominent forms of data transformation, we believe that sound can both enrich the experience of data and build new publics. "
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"On the face of things, we seem to be merely talking about text-based files, containing only the letters of the English Alphabet (and the occasional punctuation mark). On deeper inspection, of course, this isn't quite the case. What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day. "
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"This project offers the ability to create and share playable quotes of Game Boy games. A playable quote is a durable, delimited reference to a specific moment in a game along with a reference recording of how that moment can play out."
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A collection of the work of Edward Estlin Cummings, as it enters the public domain.
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"The BBC Motion Graphics Archive is a showcase of the history and development of motion graphics across the BBC and includes examples of opening titles, promotion trailers, stings, idents and programme content sequences. We have so far worked closely with around 150 BBC graphic designers who have shared invaluable knowledge of the techniques used to create the works over the years."
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Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos from the Library of Congress
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Listening to some of the people that mattered in the history of music.
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The Teletext Archive is an open repository for teletext recoverers to store their recovered teletext data. It is viewable and searchable by the public.
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"This guide will walk through detailed strategies to use reverse image search in digital investigations, with an eye towards identifying people and locations, along with determining an image’s progeny. After detailing the core differences between the search engines, Yandex, Bing, and Google are tested on five test images showing different objects and from various regions of the world."
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<blockquote> We periodically crawl the top sites on the web and record detailed information about fetched resources, used web platform APIs and features, and execution traces of each page. We then crunch and analyze this data to identify trends — learn more about our methodology. </blockquote>
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🗃 The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more…
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"Stalin's Soviet Union comes to life in full color with the discovery of a long-hidden collection of images."
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Samantha Lynn weighs in on 20 years of ALA, 350 articles, and how far we’ve come as an industry.
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16,016 sound effects and field recordings from the BBC Archive available to listen/download, licensed for personal, educational or research purposes
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"Whale oil provided fuel for lighting and lubrication for the gears of the industrial revolution, until it was replaced by petroleum products in the mid-nineteenth century. The whaling industry ranked ninth in the United States in overall value to the economy at its height in the mid-1840s. The documentation of that industry is extensive; the data presented here combines many sources including logbooks, journals, ship registers, newspapers, business papers, and custom house records."
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Prints and illustrated broadsides of historical, graphic and/or documentary importance produced in the U.S. and abroad. About 13,000 prints.
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"But to what extent has this history been preserved? Does the Million Dollar Homepage represent a robust digital artifact 12 years after its creation, or has it fallen prey to the ephemerality common to internet content? Have the forces of link rot and administrative neglect rendered it a shell of its former self?"
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Eat, Drink, Know, Go: The world according to Anthony Bourdain
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"The digital archive project will include almost 33,000 exhibition installation photographs, most never previously available online, along with the pages of 800 out-of-print catalogs and more than 1,000 exhibition checklists, documents related to more than 3,500 exhibitions from 1929 through 1989."
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Public domain Golden Age Comics.
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"Oh, you are in for a treat and a hell of a lot of modern musical history just got saved. This is over 45,000 bands and artists, and over 680,000 tracks of music. That number sounds made up, but I’m not kidding – six hundred and eighty thousand songs are in this collection."
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Low-cost storage service that is optimised for data that is infrequently accessed and where retrieval times aren't critical.
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Tom Armitage actually has a decent use-case for QR codes. Encoding the URLs in his year of links book.
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"The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content."
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View high-resolution scans of important old books (Shakespeare Folios, Galileo, Books of Hours, etc.)
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The Spatial History Lab at Stanford University is a place for a collaborative community of scholars to engage in creative visual analysis to further research in the field of history.
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The Fun To Imagine series. I never tire of Feynman.
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"This project is an attempt to trace, map and document the development of graphic design in Malaysia.It is also a project to highlight the importance of archiving as a way to protect and preserve our own visual history."
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Amazing slice through history including Ansel Adams, personnel records and photos from the Women's Bureau during WWII.
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Metafilter thread discussing newly published images of the Somme (linking to the thread as they've done a good job of picking the highlights)
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During a flight demonstration in 1909, Wilbur Wright attached a camera to his plane and took the worlds first footage from an airplane
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A photographic survey of London's remaining professional darkrooms.
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