#digitalcollections — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalcollections, aggregated by home.social.
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Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: Taking the collection into the future. “The aim is to safeguard the historically accumulated collection in the long term, to digitise it and to make it accessible worldwide. Until now, many objects have been stored in old cupboards and were only documented or available digitally to a limited extent. Through conservation measures, structured data collection and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/museum-fur-naturkunde-berlin-taking-the-collection-into-the-future/ -
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In 2015, while serving as Juca Ferreira’s digital culture advisor, I helped launch #Tainacan as an interoperable prototype for publishing digital collections from museums, libraries, and archives. It was meant to support a #NationalPolicy for #CulturalHeritage #DigitalCollections, but the policy was never launched. After the political rupture and the end of the Ministry of Culture, Ibram-Museus helped maintain the Tainacan dev teams at the university.
Context: https://josemurilo.com/2023/07/28/o-contexto-para-a-proposta-de-politica-para-acervos-digitais-no-minc-de-juca-ferreira-em-2015/ -
Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: Unwelcome Guests on Social Media, Homeowners on the Social Web
A reflection on digital sovereignty, cultural memory, and the role of memory institutions at a decisive moment for the internet -
A postcard may not look like an important historical document.
But this view of the Savannah Airport captures details that researchers love: terminal design, airline operations, & even how airports presented themselves to the traveling public.
As the Digital Transportation Archive passes 40,000 items, it's a reminder that history isn't preserved only in official reports. Sometimes it's preserved on a postcard mailed home
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in writing up a blog post about the Moskowitz archive to explain its context and contents, I tested the Romanian National Library link https://digitool.bibnat.ro again to see if it works again (has not loaded for me in a year or more). And yes it actually works and I can see all the insane old scores again!
The title of this one is a bit beyond me lol, Quilter's Sirba? Duvet Maker's Sirba?
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Introduction to the Digital Collections of the Libraries and Archives of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
#DigitalCollections #Libraries #Archives #Museums #AmericanArt #LatinAmericanArt #ArtistBooks #Photography #Manuscripts #DecorativeArts
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Internet Archive Blog: DLARC Adds New Radio Resources to Celebrate World Amateur Radio Day. “Internet Archive’s Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications, a library devoted to ham radio, shortwave, and related topics, announces a number of new collections to mark World Amateur Radio Day.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/20/internet-archive-blog-dlarc-adds-new-radio-resources-to-celebrate-world-amateur-radio-day/ -
‘The Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection began in 2021 with the goal of having a single online repository for the personal records of Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon, the first Black woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church and a founding voice in womanist theology.’
Katie Geneva Cannon Digital Collection | Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
#DigitalCollections #PCUSA #Presbyterian #Theology #WomanistTheology
https://pcusa.org/historical-society/collections/digital-collections/katie-geneva-cannon-digital-collection?utm_content=365679966&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-29421&openWithFirefox=true -
Computer History Museum: Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Vast Collection. “The Computer History Museum (CHM), a leader in decoding technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity—announced the launch of OpenCHM, a new digital portal providing global access to its unparalleled collection.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/computer-history-museum-computer-history-museum-launches-digital-portal-to-its-vast-collection/ -
"Measuring the Impact of Digital Collections: Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit"
https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v44i4.17404
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#Tainacan: exploration into #civilservice management models for #innovation in #freesoftware.
"This initiative, articulated by the Brazilian ministry’s Digital Culture sector, led to a technology prototype that could enhance #interoperability among [#digitalcollections of] #archives, #libraries, and #museums."
https://josemurilo.com/2023/09/21/brasiliana-museums-in-brazil-now-have-a-common-place-on-the-web/
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Just before Christmas, @ilkayholt and I published the fully updated v2.0 of the Risk Management Toolkit for Open GLAM: https://oa2ch.gitbook.io/risk-management
This blog post on the @creativecommons Medium publication "We Like to Share" explains the key changes and updates: https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/risk-management-toolkit-for-open-glam-v2-0-is-here-d33cb2e32d18
#OpenGLAM #OpenCulture #CulturalHeritage #DigitalCollections #DigitalPreservation #RiskManagement
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Library of Congress: What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: January 2026. “Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress digital collections? The Signal shares regular updates to our digital collections and we love showing off our colleagues’ hard work from across the Library. Read on for a sample of recent additions and a few favorite highlights.” Robert […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/whats-new-online-at-the-library-of-congress-january-2026-library-of-congress/ -
The Florentine: Florence University launches digital library showcasing rare historical materials. “The platform, developed by the University Library System, offers online access to more than 200,000 images representing around 4,000 digital objects. These are organized into 15 documentary collections, three archival fonds and ten historical journals.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/the-florentine-florence-university-launches-digital-library-showcasing-rare-historical-materials/ -
"Measuring the Impact of Digital Collections: Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit"
https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v44i4.17404
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Southern Methodist University: From rails to revolutions: New windows into the past in digital collections. “What do a sugar railway in Cuba, U.S. soldiers hunting Pancho Villa, and a priest blessing a taxi in Mexico have in common? They’re all part of a fascinating array of newly digitized materials now available in SMU’s Digital Collections.”
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#Tainacan: With nearly 2,000 active installations and over 50,000 downloads, the project has moved beyond "Beta." Having been tested by thousands, Tainacan version 1.0.0 is now launched, marking the completion of the initial roadmap. The primary goal of providing a #freesoftware solution for managing #digitalcollections and cultural objects in Brazilian institutions has been achieved, paving the way for broader applications.
#Museums of the Fediverse, give it a try!
https://tainacan.org/en/tainacan-1-0-0-an-open-source-flexible-and-powerful-software-for-creating-digital-archives-in-wordpress/ -
Save Our Signs Archive Containing Over 10,000 Photos of National Park Service (#NPS) Interpretive Materials Launches Online https://www.infodocket.com/2025/10/13/digital-collections-save-our-signs-archive-containing-over-10000-photos-of-national-park-service-nps-interpretive-materials-launches-online/ #digitalcollections #nationalparks @datarescueproject.org
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🎉Thrilled to share the publication of our #OpenAccess book 'Opening up our Heritage: Opportunities in Digitising and Promoting Cultural and Research #Collections', a collection of 19 chapters written by librarians and researchers on the #digitisation and promotion of cultural and scientific #heritage.
👉 HTML: https://e-publish.uliege.be/opening-up-our-heritage
👉 PDF and ePub: https://e-publish.uliege.be/opening-up-our-heritage/front-matter/free-download-buy/#DigitalArchives #DigitalCollections #Preservation #Libraries #Metadata #Discoverability #OpenScience #Pressbooks
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Report: "Funding for the #California Digital Newspaper Collection Was Restored—but UC Riverside Laid Off All of the Employees Responsible for the Project Anyway" (via Coachella Valley Independent) https://cvindependent.com/2025/07/losing-our-history-funding-for-the-california-digital-newspaper-collection-was-restored-but-uc-riverside-laid-off-all-of-the-employees-responsible-for-the-project-anyway/ #newspapers #digitalcollections #history #CDNC
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Institutional Books: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08300
#HackerNews #InstitutionalBooks #HarvardLibrary #TokenDataset #OpenData #DigitalCollections
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Did you know the Share button in Canopy encodes links in Content State? You can use the encoded parameter value to reopen your state in another viewer like Clover or Theseus to jump right back to that exact view in Canopy. Handy for collaboration and citation! #IIIF #DigitalCollections #Canopy
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Article: “An Interface to View Collections of Visual Art” presents LadeCA.View—a visual tool to explore, describe, and analyze large image collections in the digital humanities.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42803-022-00061-8
#DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #DigitalArtHistory #InterfaceDesign #DigitalCollections #LadeCA #MuseumTech -
Have never been to Florida but once upon a time FAU's Recorded Sound Archive Judaica collection was the top digitised Yiddish music archive, still in the top 5. I for one won't use it anymore and may be petty enough to remove old links to it from blog posts. Fuck 'em.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/04/21/florida-atlantic-university-campus-police-ice-agents-immigration/83096056007/ -
Digital Collections: Library of Congress Launches Digitized Collection of National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records https://www.infodocket.com/2024/12/02/digital-collections-library-of-congress-launches-digitized-collection-of-national-aids-memorial-quilt-records/ #digitalcollections #libraries