A new testing method can rapidly determine the condition of old books and documents by analyzing the bouquet of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by paper off-gassing. The technology promises to help conservators assess the condition of old works quickly, while not harming the documents. http://news.discovery.com/history/old-books-paper-chemical-test.html Please note that the correct name of the UCL … „Analysis of Book Smells“ weiterlesen
http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6515.html Evidence of a previously unknown voyage to North America in 1499, led by a Bristol explorer, is to be published this week in the academic journal Historical Research. The article by Dr Evan Jones, a historian at Bristol University, suggests that a Bristol merchant, William Weston, undertook a voyage to the ‘New Found Land’ … „First English-led expedition to North America“ weiterlesen
http://www.tyldesley.co.uk/TyldesleyDiary.html Update to: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/3743341 From EXLIBRIS-L a summary by Peter Tyldesley: Some of you may recall that in 2007 it was reported that a British Library employee had caused extensive damage to the Tyldesley Diary, a Jacobite manuscript which I own but which was deposited with the Library for safekeeping and photographic work. In a … „Skulduggery at the British Library“ weiterlesen
In a 21st-century version of the age of discovery, teams of computer scientists, conservationists and scholars are fanning out across the globe in a race to digitize crumbling literary treasures. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124173896716198603.html
UPDATE: Please use the updated version at http://webpages.charter.net/tbob/medmss.html Robert D. Peckham writes: The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu shows that there are now connections with nearly 2300 mss entirely digitized which can be consulted on line. This is a wonderful team effort, clearly illustrating the virtue of work which aims to advance the scholarly … „Finding & consulting medieval manuscripts“ weiterlesen
Summary VI at Salon Jewish Studies (http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-vi_13.html) (UPDATE: Unfortunately, the picture above marks the wrong church of which the steel tipped to one side in 2004. Please follow this link [google maps] to see the correct location of St. Johann Baptist church in Severinstr. 1) Notes on the rescue process from the new blog Archiv-in-Truemmern.de … „English News on the Cologne Archive Collapse“ weiterlesen
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/graphicversion/dbase/database_e.html 42 Titel in europäischen Sprachen über Japan sind digitalisiert 1. Montanus, Arnoldus. Atlas Japannensis. 1670. 2. Montanus, Arnoldus. Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des provinces unies, vers les empereurs du Japon. 1680. 3. Meister, George. Der orientalisch-indianische Kunst- und Lust-Gärtner. 1692. 4. Pinto, Fernao Mendes. The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand … „Nichibunken Collection“ weiterlesen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201973_pf.html> A Maker of Books Destroys 100,000 Inquiry Has Been Launched, UNESCO Director Says By Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 13, 2008; A17 PARIS — For more than two decades, 250 historians and specialists labored to produce the first six volumes of the General History of Latin America, … „UNESCO destroys 100,000 books“ weiterlesen
All documents about the Netherlands’ Royal Family will be immediately destroyed following the shock discovery of classified information about Queen Beatrix and her family in a dustbin. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007517804
http://digital.cjh.org:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=81354 Johann Caspar Ulrichs … Sammlung juedischer Geschichten, welche sich mit diesem Volk in dem XIII und folgenden Jahrhunderten bis auf MDCCLX in der Schweitz von Zeit zu Zeit zugetragen. Zur Beleuchtung der allgemeinen Historie dieser Nation herausgegeben. Vorbildlich die Hintergrundinformation des Baeck-Instituts: “ULRICH, JOHANN CASPAR (1705-1768), Swiss Protestant theologian and historian. After his ordination … „Geschichte der Juden in der Schweiz“ weiterlesen
Der Bund der Steuerzahler und ähnliche deutsche Verbände fallen ja hauptsächlich durch Gejammer, neoliberale Kahlschlagrhetorik und eindimensionale “Sparen!”-Empfehlungen auf. Wie man das Zauberwort “Steuergeld” auch etwas kreativer einsetzen kann, zeigt die US-amerikanische Bürgerinitiative Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), die sich für Open Access von steuerfinanzierten Forschungsergebnissen einsetzt. Die Initiative scheint aus dem Gesundheitswesen zu kommen, … „Alliance for Taxpayer Access“ weiterlesen
Integrated Resource Discovery and Access of Manuscript Materials: the User Perspective [2003] Jan Roegiers Jan Roegiers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Mgr. Ladeuzeplein 21, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium, jan.roegiers@bib.kuleuven.ac.be Recent developments in ICT have given hope to users of manuscript materials that some of their old problems will now be solved. Their primary question is possibly to be … „Access of Manuscript Materials: User Perspective“ weiterlesen
A Literary Treasure Trove for Scotland A unique multi-million pound treasure trove of writings from some of the greatest world figures of the past two hundred years could be on its way to the National Library of Scotland. This outstanding archive containing private letters, manuscripts and other correspondence from Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Sir Walter … „Murray Collection at Edinburgh“ weiterlesen
What are the benefits of embedded transcripts vs. external transcripts? There are three: 1. You can put the cursor over a word you have trouble reading, and the transcript of that word will appear in a tooltip. You can also display the entire line of text for better contextual understanding. 2. You can copy and … „Embedding Transcripts in Handwritten Pages“ weiterlesen
