Category Archives: cultural collections

Processing Decisions for Manuscripts & Archives, SPEC Kit 314, Published by ARL

November 4, 2009 – 9:26 am

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec-314-web.pdf
Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Processing Decisions for Manuscripts & Archives, SPEC Kit 314, which examines the current policies and practices for processing manuscript and archival collections in Special Collections. This SPEC Kit is organized around four general areas: personnel, job responsibilities, and training; processing policies, procedures, and priorities; impacts on [...]

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Digitisation of special collections: Mapping, assessment, prioritisation

October 30, 2009 – 1:34 pm

nbsp;http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/docum…
Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen as a priority they are not directly consulted about which collections they would like to have made available digitally or why. This can be seen in a wide range of policy documents throughout the cultural heritage sector, where users are [...]

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David Rosenthal’s Spring CNI meeting plenary talk

April 16, 2009 – 7:56 am

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At the Spring CNI meeting a few days ago in Minneapolis, David Rosenthal gave an absolutely extraordinary plenary talk on digital preservation. For everybody at the talk who wanted additional details, and for all those who couldn’t be at the talk, David has provided an extended version of his argument (as well as pointers to [...]

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The Minassian Collection: Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings

March 23, 2009 – 7:11 am

nbsp;http://dl.lib.brown.edu/minassian/
The Center for Digital Initiatives at Brown University has created another delightful digital collection in The Minassian Collection of miniature paintings from the estate of Mrs. Adrienne Minassian. The project came out of the work of Alanna Benham, a Brown alumna, who first presented her own work as a searchable database of Persian and Islamic [...]

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Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

March 23, 2009 – 7:09 am

nbsp;http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/
The wide cornucopia of digitized medieval manuscripts is a real boon to historians, art historians, and those with a penchant for such documents.
However, it can be taxing to sort through a wide range of sites to narrow in on the documents of primary interest, but that process just got much easier via the Catalogue of [...]

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Discovering physical objects: Meeting researchers’ needs

December 2, 2008 – 6:56 am

nbsp;http://www.rin.ac.uk/objects
The Research Information Network report Discovering objects: Meeting researchers’ needs investigates how researchers discover and gain access to physical objects and artefacts using four varied subject disciplines as examples of the process: archaeology, art history, earth sciences, and social and economic history.
Many museums face increasing difficulties in providing the levels of support for research and [...]

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National Maritime Museum’s photostream

September 18, 2008 – 8:31 am

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmaritimemuseum/
The National Maritime Museum has posted photos at Flickr.
source: Joho the blog

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