http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/08/walters-museum-uploads-19000-photos-to-wikimedia-commons/

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350239?eng=y

So then, it may seem incredible, but "there is a whole series of papers and documents that are as yet unexplored, and have tremendous value for understanding both the spirit of the Council and the correct hermeneutic of the documents."

This is what an archivist of the Secret Vatican Archive wrote at the conclusion of an astonishing account published in "L'Osservatore Romano" of May 1, 2012.

The archivist, Piero Doria, has worked and is working precisely on the compilation and reorganization – so that it may be made available to scholars – of an enormous body of documentation of the conciliar proceedings that over time had fallen prey to neglect, or had even been partly misplaced.

For example, it has been discovered that among the papers that have gone missing is "the register of protocol of the theological commission and of the commission 'De doctrina fidei et morum,'" two conciliar commissions of capital importance.

The Osservatore article by archivist Doria (Italian):

http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350238

"Members of the public are being asked to help describe 4,000 music pieces from the Bodleian Libraries’ collections, as part of a new project launched today.

What’s the score at the Bodleian? (www.whats-the-score.org) is the first crowd-sourcing project undertaken by the Bodleian Libraries. About 4,000 pieces of popular piano music from the mid-Victorian period have been digitized and made available online. The music was mostly produced for domestic entertainment, and many of these scores have illustrated or decorative covers and advertisements. The collection has never been included in the library’s catalogue, and its exact contents are therefore unknown."

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/whats-the-score-at-the-bodleian/_nocache

http://www.whats-the-score.org/

"There are increasing reports of destruction in Syria. Sites like Krak des Chavaliers, Palmyra, Elba, and historic buildings in Homs are all at risk. Government forces in some cases are shelling civilian areas—the Citadel of Al Madeeq has been shelled, with a tragic result for the site and for the inhabitants.

The AP describes the damage: "shells thudded into the walls of the 12th century al-Madeeq Citadel, raising flames and columns of smoke as regime forces battled with rebels in March. The bombardment punched holes in the walls, according to online footage of the fighting."

There are reports of looting, including some by government forces and others. Rodrigo Martin, an archaeologist who has worked in Syria describes some of the destruction:

We have facts showing that the government is acting directly against the country's historical heritage,. . . What we know . . . Syrian heritage has already provided a huge quantity of information, but we can safely say that the part that has not yet been studied is even bigger,. . . [the destruction] is like burning a page in the book of history of mankind."

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.de/2012/05/destruction-and-looting-in-syria.html

Update:
http://archaeologik.blogspot.de/2012/05/syrische-truppen-zerstoren.html

By Ben Brumfield

http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.fr/2012/04/crowdsourced-transcription-tool-list.html

Quote (by Tim Hitchcock) from the first issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities

http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007901360 has the wrong spelling Urspring instead of Ursprung. I sent the correction to the feedback team and added the fact that Ellenbeck died in 1959. HathiTrust's answer: Thank you for notifying us of this problem. We currently do not have a process in place with the University of California who provided us with this record and will thus be unable to get this record fixed at this time.

I cannot understand this.

Peter Suber’s “Promoting Open Access in the Humanities”—eight years later
Posted by Gary F. Daught

http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/peter-subers-promoting-open-access-in-the-humanities-eight-years-later/

http://www.openculture.com/2012/03/the_alan_lomax_music_archive_now_online.html

http://research.culturalequity.org/home-audio.jsp