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News & announcements regarding Digital Scholarship & Digital Collections (+ some stuff that doesn't).
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A STREET NEAR YOU: 500,000+ location records for people who died serving in WWI displayed on an interactive map. See how the War affected countries and communities alike via astreetnearyou.org
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Want to know the truth about the #GretaThunberg #conspiracy? University of Washington Libraries is here to set the record straight about this historical image by Eric A. Hegg. #historykeepers #primarysources tinyurl.com/gretathunbergp Huffington Post
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Plateau People's Web Portal (collaborative project from WSU Libraries and Native American Nations). Digital Archive-plateauportal.libraries.wsu.edu
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Abigail Echo-Hawk on the art and science of 'decolonizing data'
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Kudos to Accessible Technology Services (ATS), 's Ana Thompson who exemplify and commitment to improving accessibility. explores efforts across campus. tinyurl.com/yxlwypgm
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Exciting news for our #Sephardic Studies Digital Collection: has just implemented Mirador, a new viewing software, for all collections! Learn how to use #Mirador for the SSDC here. jewishstudies.washington.edu/sephardic-stud cc:
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Experience the Nightwatch: Rembrandt's 1642 masterpiece.
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The Real Rainbow Row digital exhibition exploring Charleston's queer history as a virtual walking tour. speccoll.cofc.edu/the-real-rainb via
The Mirador Viewer has been added to the UW Libraries Digital Collections site. It implements the full client functionality of the Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Image and Presentation APIs. Here's an example from Ladino books: bit.ly/2MdXd7W
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May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! Digital resources from Library of Congress, National Archives, Smithsonian, and more are featured here: asianpacificheritage.gov
The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington is currently accepting applications for scholarship funding for the 2019-2020 academic year. In addition, several summer labor internship programs have opened. More info: ow.ly/OsGp30oCdij
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The Pacific Northwest Native American Cylinder and Disc Digitization Project has been funded.
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Honored to announce our grant proposal to digitize, preserve, and make accessible the Jacobs Collection has been funded by @CLIRRaR. #PNW #ethnomusicology #linguistics @vallier @uwspeccoll @EndpointAudio clir.org/2019/04/clir-a
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. seeks proposals from "community-based archives that represent & serve communities marginalized due to oppression based on race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, class, sexuality, religion, ability, and/or geographic location." Read CFP: mellon.org/programs/schol
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Please join us Wednesday, April 24th from 12-1pm in Green A for "Why Public Research Matters: New Strategies for Making and Measuring Your Impact". @SimpsonCenter
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UW art professor Zhi Lin will give a talk at #odegaardlibrary - room 220 - from 5:30-6:30pm. #laborhistory #chineseamericanhistory #asianamericanheritagemonth #artisttalk #artmatters
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We join the world in sorrow at the devastating loss occurring at Notre Dame.
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We are testing the wording for online database access and looking for both on-campus and off-campus people to provide feedback. The link is bit.ly/uwlib-access and should take about 3 minutes to complete. We appreciate the support.
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In case you missed this...
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If your picture is on Flickr, it may have been used to train face recognition algorithms. trib.al/lz0hw0t
Friends of the Libraries Student Video Contest deadline April 19. Win up to $1500. Details: lib.washington.edu/support/studen
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"I am a Migrant" is a project by the UN International Organization for Migration & features stories from migrants all over the world. iamamigrant.org via
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Free Accessibility Toolkit for designers, librarians, teachers, etc. opentextbc.ca/accessibilityt via
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800 digitized Medieval manuscripts from British Library & Bibliothèque nationale de France. bl.uk/medieval-engli via
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A story about how to perceive the population of cities as mountains (cool visualizations) pudding.cool/2018/12/3d-cit
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[Women's History Month] Clara Barton Papers (Pioneering nurse, suffragette, and founder of the American Red Cross) loc.gov/collections/cl
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Edward Gorey Talks About His Love Cats & More in the Animated Series, "Goreytelling" openculture.com/?p=1057590 via @openculture
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Check out The March (themarch.uoregon.edu), a new digital exhibition about James Blue’s documentary film on the 1963 March on Washington. Explore the film’s history and meaning through archival documents, interviews, Oval Office recordings, and more.
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20 years since WTO. Revisit the UW Libraries Digital Collection content.lib.washington.edu/wtoweb/index.h
City Council Honors 100 years of Labor History in Seattle with proclamation to Labor Archives of Washington. bit.ly/2SRG16S.
Beautiful and Engaging website=The Ways: Stories on culture & language from Native communities around the Central Great Lakes region theways.org via
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A coffee break from a study session in the University of Washington's Suzzallo Library can now become a lesson in art and design. ' new space in the Gothic structure is our Editors' Pick for Best Historic Integration. #grayawards photo: Matt Gl… bit.ly/2GSViml
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UW's American Indians of the PNW is one of the featured projects!
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This week's NewsBreak celebrates #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, featuring archives from:
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Check it out: newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Dig
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Working class heroes: A look inside the Labor Archives of Washington
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