«Machine Scale Analysis of Digital Collections: An Interview with Lisa Green of Common Crawl»

«Machine Scale Analysis of Digital Collections: An Interview with Lisa Green of Common Crawl» http://feedly.com/k/1fCE9VJ   How do we make digital collections available at scale for today’s scholars and researchers? Lisa Green, director of Common Crawl, tackled this and related questions in her keynote address at Digital Preservation 2013. (You can view her slides and […]

UPDATE:IB Monument in Madrid

SpainDear Friends, As you know, last week the supreme court of Madrid (Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid) ordered that the monument honoring the International Brigades at the Complutense University be removed due to the lack of planning permission.  This is a travesty in light of the fact that the city has consistently ignored the university’s […]

Defendant Jackets, Legal Abbreviations, and Aliases, Oh My! « The Text Message

http://blogs.archives.gov/TextMessage/2013/05/13/defendant-jackets/ Defendant Jackets, Legal Abbreviations, and Aliases, Oh My! What exactly is a “defendant jacket”?  What does the charge “RLD” stand for?  How do you find the records of a defendant if he or she had an alias or was charged with multiple co-defendants? These are just some of the questions faced by archivists, researchers, […]

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What Can These Photographs Tell Us?   Written by Leah Abraha on Feb 11, 2013 in Art & Culture, Events & Openings, Heritage, Photography · 0 Comments Photography from and about Africa is gaining interest and scholarship judging from the turn out at the one day symposium Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive, […]

On the Virtues of Preexisting Material | Contents Magazine

http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/on-the-virtues-of-preexisting-material/ Contents MagazineEXPLORE On the Virtues of Preexisting Material by Rick Prelinger for Issue № 5 Since symbolic representation got traction and rendered itself permanent, we’ve had to live in an appropriated world. And for much of that time people have tugged back and forth on chains of origin and derivation. Sometimes appropriation is in vogue, other times and places […]

Artículo: Guest post: An archivist at THATCamp New Orleans

Guest post: An archivist at THATCamp New Orleans http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=3322 Guest post: An archivist at THATCamp New Orleans Posted on January 22, 2013 by Kate Theimer Thanks, Eira Tansey for this guest post about THATCamp: One of the perks of living in New Orleans (besides, of course, all the outlets for laissez les bons temps rouler) […]

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Today’s collection item on Instagram: Post Office sign from New Guinea, on display in our First World War ga http://instagr.am/p/REwDFcvrBR/ https://twitter.com/AWMemorial/status/260265859921113088 Compartido a través de Plume http://bit.ly/GetPlume

TERRITORIO ARCHIVO

Territorio Archivo Territorio Archivo is a project based in the reading of the region through domestic pictures and films found in the following towns: Cerezales del Condado, Castro del Condado, Barrillos de Curueño, Ambasaguas de Curueño, Devesa de Curueño and Barrio de Nuestra Señora. Territorio Archivo is a process of art work on the region. […]