This week, New York Public Library released more than of its 187,000 public domain images free to share, reuse and remix. The collection of high resolution images spans the breadth and depth of NYPL’s holdings–historic maps, atlases, botanical illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, ancient religious texts, and, of course, the New York City collection. Now open and […]
Last week I was so excited to discover the Internet Archive Book Images project. Yesterday (also via @infodocket) I discovered Photogrammar— a digital humanities project from Yale University. Exploiting Library of Congress metadata, the Photogrammar team created a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the […]
Imagine your computer as a new Gramophone purchased for family and friends to enjoy in your home parlor. Audition popular recorded selections of the beginning of the 20th century years—band music, novelty tunes, humorous monologues, hits from the season’s new musical theater productions, the latest dance rhythms, and opera arias. The Library of Congress just […]
This week Creative Commons launched a new tool designed to improve public discovery of and access to content in the public domain. The new Public Domain Mark allows users to publicly identify and mark works they determine to be free of copyright restrictions. Imagine it. Someday it could be far more easy to determine whether […]
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