links from Penultimate Class videos

Rather than an extensive blog post, I thought I'd provide links to the various websites I show and talk about in my lectures this week. Today we most of the projects fall within the domain of "Digital Humanities" and should be, but often are not, collaborative projects between libraries, archives, museums, and academic disciplines including Art History, English, and History.

MAPS:

• David Rumsey Maps  http://www.davidrumsey.com/
• NYPL Map Division http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/map-division
• Library of Congress Maps http://www.loc.gov/topics/maps.php
  
• 1507 Waldseemuller World Map – the first printed reference to America on a map http://myloc.gov/exhibitions/earlyamericas/interactives/maps/html/worldmap1507/index.html 
• Cleveland Public Library Map & Cartographic Division "America" 1677 http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/city-view.pl 
• Interactive atlas of London at Tufts http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/city-view.pl  
• Miles Harvey The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (2001)

Photographs, moving images, and audio

• Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/
• Internet Archive http://archive.org/index.php 
• IPI Graphic Atlas  http://www.graphicsatlas.org/ – 
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/

Henschke Article about the Codex Sinaiticus

• Collections in Russia http://www.nlr.ru/eng/exib/CodexSinaiticus/tish.html

 Think about how we reproduce materials for subsequent scholarly use. Look at page 49, middle of the left column, we have a recitation of the various facsimiles created from the Codex. Notice the first is a lithographic copy of the leaves! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Sinaiticus_Paralipomenon_9,27-10,11.JPG  This method of reproductions pre-dates microcards and microfilm by more than 50 years! They photographed the leaves, transferred the images onto stones and printed from the stones.  The article discusses the digitization project, it’s important to think about the mechanics of digitization and metadata, while considering how users will experience the output or finished project. 


Pre 2007 Digital Projects:

• National Digital Library Program LOC http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html 
• Oxford Digital Library http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/    
• Making of America -Michigan http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ and Cornell http://moa.library.cornell.edu/ while conceived and created together have diverged over the decade.

Contemporary digitization efforts.

• Archimedes Palimpsest http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/
• Kelmsott Bible http://www.kennicottbible.org/
• BL Turning the Pages http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
• Harry Ransom Center UT – Gutenberg Bible http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/

Digitized classic texts 
Beowulf http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/ 
Romain de la Rose http://romandelarose.org/  

Some food for thought: How do these projects make rare books and special collections accessible to the general public and scholars?