The National Science Foundation awarded a grant last year to digitize millions of photographs of insects into a national database. The idea being that researchers and other interested parties could access this database to view insects quickly and easily. [Read more…]
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Cambridge University Library offers Isaac Newton papers online
The Cambridge University Library has begun offering digitized versions of Isaac Newton’s scientific works online. Anyone can now view over 4,000 pages of Newton material at the Cambridge Digital Library website. [Read more…]
Library of Congress will archive all Twitter tweets
Last year, the Library of Congress announced a deal with Twitter where the library would archive all the public tweets ever sent.
Yesterday we got a glimpse into what that means through an interview on Federal News Radio with Bill Lefurgy from the Library of Congress. [Read more…]
National Digital Public Library of America
It looks like Harvard is going to stand out from the rest of the Massachusetts colleges in yet another way. Last month, the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society announced that The Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund would donate $5 million to develop the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). [Read more…]