- Thank you for your votes! The Will of James Smithson has made it into the second round of the Smithsonian Summer Showdown! The competition is tighter now and we need your votes!
- Hold on to your hats . . . Archivists are coming to town next week to attend the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. It will officially have the highest attendance ever!
- Institutions' ability to digitize their collections is greatly outpacing their ability to describe the materials in a meaningful way to make them searchable. OCR (opitcal character recognition) and full-text search, while not perfect, offers a quick solution to making digitized content accessible. [via The Signal: Digital Preservation, LOC]
- Programming 101 - Celebrating 50 years of the BASIC programming language. [via O Say Can You See?, NMAH]
- Archivist, Alfred Marks, of the Het Nieuwe Instituut in The Netherlands, makes his curatorial debut with the exhibtion, Summer Dreams, which uses drawings, models, photographs and other documents for the archives and library to show how the Dutch spent their leisure time in the last century. [via Cool Hunting]
- A pair of videos - One looking at the last year The Polaroid Corporation was in business and the other a brief history of George Eastman and his impact on photography. [via PetaPixel]
- Ever wonder how to take aaprt a dinosaur skeleton? Well wonder no more and watch this. [via Smithsonian Science]
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