Kategorie: English Corner
KdiH
NB: Brilliant project, constantly updated; have a look at the database; vols 1-8 currently online, up to "Maximilianea" https://t.co/9Y536DWlem #medievaltwitter pic.twitter.com/2IdBnqoZnf
— Henrike Lähnemann 📯 (@HLaehnemann) June 27, 2022
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
“The Treasury re-imagines and reconstructs through digital technologies the Public Record Office of Ireland, a magnificent archive destroyed on June 30th, 1922, in the opening engagement of the Civil War.”
“Indian archives – places capable of turning even the healthiest person into an asthmatic”. Orhan Pamuk on Dayanita Singh’s photos of India’s disintegrating archives
Open access: addressing your concerns
Watergate Trial Records Digitized Ahead of Scandal’s 50th Anniversary
Concerns about Archbishop Ugorji’s Dissertation
Archbishop Ugorji (Owerri, Nigeria) seems to have used a lot of unattributed sources in his 1984 dissertation at the University of Münster: https://t.co/ZVoMagCP5W
— Alkuin Schachenmayr (@PaterAlkuin) June 14, 2022
Article on Google Scholar: “The results revealed an unprecedented error rate, with 279 of 281 (99.3%) examined references”
Every name counts
To speed up digitization of the approx. 725,000 lists in our archives, our indexing team has been working with a new OCR app. It uses #artificialintelligence to identify the data and transcribe them. The team can now process list documents 3x faster than before. #everynamecounts pic.twitter.com/sjpie94Fwc
— Arolsen Archives (@ArolsenArchives) May 27, 2022
Ukraine: Russia damaged or destroyed almost 60 libraries
Russian forces in the occupied areas of #Ukraine are destroying libraries and Ukrainian books, according to Ukraine's human rights ombudsman @MFA_Ukraine, via @IBTimesAU https://t.co/q6WtXR3X87 pic.twitter.com/VVQZxd0DYe
— Mark Dunkley FSA (@CPP_Officer) May 27, 2022
Italy: Confiscation of properties and business enterprises of art trader Gianfranco Becchina
Sicily’s anti-mafia unit confirms seizure of property belonging to Gianfranco Becchina, who for forty years headed one of Italy's most notorious antiquities trafficking cells.
Becchina sold hundreds of those antiquities to the Getty and others https://t.co/bMx61FwCnd
— Chasing Aphrodite (@ChasingAphrodit) May 25, 2022
Rhode Island Advances Its Library E-book Bill
BibSite is an open access digital repository for discovering and sharing bibliographical research and pedagogical materials
#buchgeschichte
Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter (May 2022)
Bureaucratic monster
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Can you please explain why
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120786119
isn’t Open Access?”
Patching Science – amending the literature through version control
https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.13.487348
“Science is held to lofty ideals. Chief among them is its supposed capacity for self-correction. However, we, and
many other academics, argue that the current model of scientific publication hinders this capacity (Barbour
et al. 2017; Teixeira da Silva and Al-Khatib 2021; Allison et al. 2016). People make mistakes and the peer
review system can’t catch them all (Molckovsky, Vickers, and Tang 2011; Kendall et al. 2019). Yet the
number of steps involved in correcting or supplementing previously published research acts to discourage what
should be a straightforward process that is in the hands of the original authors (Barbour et al. 2017; Teixeira
da Silva and Al-Khatib 2021). After all, it is the authors who are best placed to correct their own work.”
Network for the Protection of Cultural Property in Ukraine
Network for the Protection of Cultural Property in Ukraine: Set up by @BundesKultur the network coordinates aid efforts for cultural heritage items. @DNB_Aktuelles serves as the hub for libraries in close collaboration with @sbb_news and @originalerhalt. https://t.co/FnSTXO2Klt
— CENL (@CENL_EUROPE) April 12, 2022
SUCHO: racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives
ACM opens up backfile
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) “has opened the articles published during the first 50 years of its publishing program. These articles, published between 1951 and the end of 2000, are now open and freely available to view and download via the ACM Digital Library.
ACM’s first 50 years backfile contains more than 117,500 articles on a wide range of computing topics.”
https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2022/april/50-years-backfile
Hey Hey Rise up
Unesco: At least 53 culturally important sites damaged in Ukraine
The giant archive hidden under the British countryside
@Archivalia_kg https://t.co/lqKdHoaL8a (von einem Großaccount mit schon 750.000 Views nach nur 1 Tag)
— AndreasP_RV (@AndreasP_RV) March 29, 2022
US Social Justice Portal
'Social justice and American #legalhistory', an impression of four resources in #openaccess at a new portal, https://t.co/eCDdhXXxWo pic.twitter.com/NkkEQ6cird
— Otto Vervaart (@Rechtshistorie) March 30, 2022
Free Access after registration isn’t Open Access!
Open access publishing in the library
The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv
History for Ukraine
Best wishes to all taking part in tomorrow's #HistoryForUkraine 24-hr event from 12pm GMT on Sat 26th: https://t.co/sZkCyn4uh4
That's all the speakers (incl. many Fellows @RoyalHistSoc); all the creators (esp @geneastories); all who watch & donate to @decappeal #twitterstorians
— Royal Historical Society (@RoyalHistSoc) March 25, 2022
Weather Extremes historic weather database: England 1500-1700
Happy to say that my database, Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age 1500-1700 is live. Mapping weather records from chronicles and more documents to come. https://t.co/TPveyriYYQ
— Madeline Bassnett (@m_bassnett) March 23, 2022
BL “We received over 60 nominations for manuscripts that have some connection with the lives of women in Britain and Europe between 1100 and 1600”
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2022/03/medieval-and-renaissance-women-thank-you.html
One manuscript nominated for Medieval and Renaissance Women is this copy of the Rule of the Minorite Order of Sisters of St Clare, illuminated by Sibylla von Bondorff (Swabia, c. 1480): Add MS 15686, f. 32r
It was suggested by me: https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/140168
Remote access to the E-resources of the New York Society Library
“The New York Society Library offers E-memberships for those interested in remote access to our collection of 20+ electronic resources including scholarly databases such as JSTOR and Project Muse, TLS, New York Review of Books, and London Review of Books back issues, various Oxford University Press databases, plus ebooks & audiobooks, and more.
The E-membership costs $100 /year.
The New York Society Library was founded in 1754 and membership is by subscription.
E-memberships do not include circulating privileges for the print collection or access to individual study rooms but do include 10 building visits per year.
More information here https:// https://www.nysoclib.org/members/e-memberships”
See also https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/?s=remote+access
https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/122580 (2020)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/alk440/libraries_that_allow_nonresident_out_of_country/ (2019)
A scoping study on open access to digital cultural heritage collections in the UK
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6242611
“The findings indicate there is no consensus in the UK GLAM sector on what open access means, or should mean. There is also a fundamental misunderstanding of what the public domain is, includes and should include.”