Link Love: 12/14/2012

by Mitch Toda on December 14, 2012

Resolution is a tricky thing when it comes to scanning, the folks at the Library of Congress give us some pointers on where to start. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation]
Stealing some attention away from the Hope Diamond, the Dom Pedro Aquamarine, is now on display at the National Museum of Natural History. The world's largest cut gem aquamarine was designed by gem artist, Bernd Munsteiner, and weighs in at 10,363 carats. [via The Torch, SI]
We've talked about the Bentley Snowflake Collection held here at the Archives before. Here is Russian photographer, Andrew Osokin's approach to taking pictures of snowflakes. [via PetaPixel]
Want to know what happened on December 14? Here's a tool to look at events that took place on certain dates using images in the Flickr Commons. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]
Yesterday, the exhibition Nam June Paik: Global Visionary opened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This time lapse video shows the installation of the "Archive Wall" in the exhibition. [via Eye Level, SAAM]
The Pop-Up Archive was co-founded by Bailey Smith and Anne Wootton and attempts to provide a seemless solution for producers of audio content and oral historians to archive and make accessible their work. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]

Pop Up Archive from Mario Furloni on Vimeo.

Tags: Web/Tech, Exhibitions, Archive, Digitization, Link Love

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Great links! Thank you.

Maureen December 14, 2012 at 8:09 am

Those snowflakes are amazing!

Jonathan van der Pennen December 16, 2012 at 3:57 am

Thanks Mitch for these links.

Saurabh Saha December 16, 2012 at 9:12 pm

That is a great series of snowflake pictures.

Runner March 6, 2013 at 1:38 pm

Your links were really very useful. Hope you to come up with more such links Mitch!

Lakshay Goel March 8, 2013 at 4:22 am

Those snow flakes are absolutely amazing. Thanks for these.

Gaurav March 10, 2013 at 5:37 pm

So much interesting links at a single place ! Thank you sir for sharing these links. I like them very much.

Sandeep Chaudhary March 15, 2013 at 5:15 am

Nice pictures . Andrew Osokin must be really rocking .

Kulwant March 15, 2013 at 3:39 pm

Thank you so much Mitch for giving this awesome info.

Sid March 31, 2013 at 11:12 pm

yeah, those snow flakes are awesome. Mind blowing stuff.

sid May 3, 2013 at 1:00 am

Really awesome article and that too with flawless picturess . Thanks For sharing these links . Enjoyed a lot reading it . Once again it was really awesome Mitch

owaiskhn786@gmail.com May 6, 2013 at 8:24 am

Hy Mitch! one of these picture remind me some old days incidents.

William luke May 11, 2013 at 11:14 am

Great collection, thanks for links and historic photos.

Umar Rashid May 15, 2013 at 5:38 am

Really nice pics

Karan May 21, 2013 at 4:22 pm

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