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Histografica
Posted November 12th, 2008 by Alan Levine
Histografica is an interesting resource of user contributed media - they are aming to build a large collection of historical photographstied to the geographic location and time period; so you can search for photos by both time range and location.
For exmple, searching on Washngton DC pre 1904, I found this photo of the Smithsonian Institution from 1898
You can help grow it by either sharing your photos or adding helpful information to exisiting ones via the comments form.
History of the NMC
Posted February 25th, 2007 by NMCThe NMC was founded in 1993 by a group of hardware manufacturers, software developers, and publishers who realized that the ultimate success of their multimedia-capable products depended upon their acceptance by the higher education community in a way that had never been achieved before.
These companies -- Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Macromedia, and Sony -- guessed that a community of innovators embedded in leading colleges and universities would amplify the impact of their tools in a wide range of disciplines, and that such a community could be uniquely self-sustaining and adaptive.
Digital Scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium is prototype image database and visual union catalog of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. The project was started in 1996 by the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The model was to be from a scholar’s point of view interactive and expandable. Today it holds over 8,000 color images collected by a collaboration of institutions including University of California Berkeley and Columbia University affiliated libraries, as well as the Union Theological Seminary in New York, and the De Bellis Collection in California.
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