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What is IWitness? IWitness is an online application for educators and students, giving them access to watch, search, and learn from over 1,000 video testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. IWitness is unique by bringing educators and their students (ages 13-18) together at the intersection of Holocaust education and the development of […]
"The C-SPAN Campaign: How Online Video Archives Are Changing the Game in 2012"
| Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Libraries, News, Video Recordings
The article includes a mention of one of the most important, useful, and interesting research tools on the Internet, the award winning C-SPAN Video Library. It contains just about EVERYTHING that has ever aired on C-SPAN. One note, while the C-SPAN archive is focused on U.S. politics, you’ll also so much more. Also, the online […]
From the Yahoo Blog: The new search results page sports a neatly tiled look, with each image equally sized, then becoming larger when you hover over one. In addition to displaying the images from the web, the new Image Search includes three new category tabs to better categorize and present the images that interest you: […]
Conference Paper: "Working Without Words – Image Based Retrieval as a Model to Overcome Language Hurdles"
| Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
The paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly in San Juan on August 14, 2011. Author: Jan Simane (Head Librarian, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, Italy) Abstract: In art history images are the primary medium of interest. In a scientific context, multi media […]
"NBC News Launches New Archive Site"
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Management and Leadership, News
From Broadcasting and Cable: NBC News is formally launching a new website, NBCUniversalArchives.com, that will allow customers to buy archive material from a number of divisions across NBCUniversal’s businesses, including NBC News, NBC Sports, NBC Entertainment, Universal Studios, Universal Pictures, Telemundo, The Weather Channel, NBC Radio, NBC Photobank and others. The effort is notable both […]
New For Educators, Students, and Families: PBS Launches New Platform Loaded With Video, Audio, and Other Resources
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, School Libraries
Worth noting is that this resource includes material for PreK-Undergrad Level (Grade 16). You’ll need to register (less than a minute to complete) but all of the content is free for educators, students, and families. A premium service will go live this Fall. From a PBS News Release: PBS and WGBH, and their producing partners […]
Open Access! "Digital Images of Yale’s Vast Cultural Collections Now Available for Free"
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, Open Access, Resources
Over 250,000 images already online! From a Yale Daily Bulletin: Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced today. Yale is the first Ivy League university […]
Andrew Phelps from the Nieman Journalism Lab provides a useful overview about the new technology. To access the search tool simply head to the search box on PBS.org and go for it. The database contains more than 7,000 videos but there is no advanced search interface so limiting to a specific program has to be […]
UPDATE: “Desert Island Discs on mobile: A 70 year radio archive in your pocket (Radio 4 & Radio 4 Extra Blog) Direct to the Desert Island Disc Online Archive At the beginning of March we posted an item about the complete archive of the BBC radio program “Desert Island Discs” (first broadcast was in 1942) […]
From a Post on the Google Operating System Blog: Google sent the following message to everyone who uploaded videos to Google Video: Later this month, hosted video content on Google Video will no longer be available for playback. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we’re removing the remaining hosted content. We’ve […]
