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Volunteer Work at AMNH – Digital Imaging using Omeka

by Scott Voth on July 21, 2011 in digital collections, interns

The American Museum of Natural History Library seeks a Library School student to volunteer part-time on a digital imaging database project. The Museum Library’s Special Collections focuses on the history of the institution and of natural science and is developing an image database for its Photographic Collections. The Library is seeking an intern/volunteer to catalog [...]

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What’s on the Menu? Crowdsourcing at the NYPL

by Scott Voth on June 24, 2011 in Digital Humanities

NYPL Labs is harnessing the power of library patrons to catalog its extensive collection of historical restaurant menus. The collection has over 40,000 items, all with different fonts and formats, and with multiple entries that make OCR problematic. The collection covers the past 170 years. The collection is prohibitively expensive to catalog by the library [...]

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Digital Humanities and the Future of Libraries

by Scott Voth on June 7, 2011 in Events, GSLISANN

NYPL Labs presents: Digital Humanities and the Future of Libraries A conversation in honor of Dr. Paul LeClerc with: Kari Kraus, Jon Orwant, Dot Porter and Doug Reside Thursday June 16, 4-6pm at The New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (42nd St. and 5th Ave.), South Court Auditorium FREE and open to the [...]

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Trevor Owens “From Records to Data with Recollection”

by Scott Voth on June 5, 2011 in Events

Thanks to Anne Leonard (@aleonard) for sharing the the link to the Trevor Owens lecture at Brooklyn Public Library on Recollection, an interesting (and free) platform, developed by the Library of Congress and Zepheira, which pulls together digital collections of diverse formats and makes them easier to find and share. Librarians, historians and scholars can [...]

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