http://blog.okfn.org/2010/12/21/cultural-heritage-rights-in-the-age-of-digital-copyright/

CHI want to retain control over items and buildings that they often regard as “theirs”, but this need has to live together with the fact that millions of people want to share digital content about cultural heritage on the web. Ultimately, this fact should be regarded as a very positive thing, if the mission of institutions is to maximise the awareness of Cultural Heritage among the public and the impact it has on the social and economic life of EU citizens.

See also
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/6128992/

Internet Archive has announced that a publicly accessible digital copy of the complete 1930 United States Census – the largest, most detailed census released to date – is available free of charge at http://www.archive.org/details/1930_census. Previously, 1930 Census records were accessible only through microfilm, or subscription services in which select portions of data are provided for a fee.

http://blog.archive.org/2010/12/22/1790-1930-u-s-census-records-available-free/

http://hharp.org/

We are very pleased to announce the addition of a new database of admission records to the HHARP website: the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. Covering the period 1883 (when the hospital first opened) to 1903, the database offers insight into the health of the poor child in the Scottish city of Glasgow, complementing databases already available for three London hospitals: the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, the Evelina Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0013.305

Google Scholar is far easier to spam than the classic Google Search for Web pages. While Google Web Search is applying various methods to detect spam and there is lots of research on detecting spam in Web search, Google Scholar applies only very rudimentary mechanisms—if any—to detect spam.

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2010/12/17/why-i-and-you-should-avoid-nc-licences

The key problems with -NC licenses are as follows:

They make your work incompatible with a growing body of free content, even if you do want to allow derivative works or combinations.
They may rule out other basic and beneficial uses which you want to allow.
They support current, near-infinite copyright terms.
They are unlikely to increase the potential profit from your work, and a share-alike license serves the goal to protect your work from exploitation equally well.

http://www.genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw

On this site you will find videos relating to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi enriched with synchronized transcripts, searchable index terms, and maps. Videos include testimonies of Genocide survivors and perpetrators, Gacaca Justice System court proceedings, and remembrance ceremonies.
Digitized photos, publications, archival documents, and audio recordings relevant to the Rwandan Genocide are also available on this site.

1) PAUL NEEDHAM, INDEX POSSESSORUM INCUNABULORUM (=IPI)

CERL is very pleased to announce that there is now available, through our
Provenance Research pages, Paul Needham's Index Possessorum Incunabulorum
(=IPI).

IPI contains some 32,000 entries relating to the ownership of incunabula,
including personal names, institutional names, monograms, and arms. They
were extracted by Needham from some 200 published catalogues of incunabula
with provenance information, and they have been much augmented with
information from his own research.

We are very grateful to Dr Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian, Scheide
Library, Princeton University Library, for letting CERL make available
to the public his extraordinary tool for provenance research.

More information on IPI, and how to search it, on:

http://ipi.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl

2) MATERIAL EVIDENCE IN INCUNABULA (=MEI)

http://incunabula.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl [English version]
http://incunabula.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?lang=it [Italian version]

Also available now through CERL's Provenance Research pages is a new
database specifically designed to record and search the material
evidence (or copy specific, post-production evidence, provenance
information) of 15th-century printed books: ownership, decoration,
binding, manuscript annotations, stamps, prices, etc.

MEI is linked to the Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC), from
which it derives the bibliographical records, and it allows the user
to combine search of bibliographical and copy-specific records.
MEI has been designed to contain new data from book-in-hand
examination or from card- catalogues, as well as what can be got by
retrospective conversion of data from published catalogues of
incunabula. Records can be downloaded in Marc21 or Unimarc Holdings
for integration into local OPACs.

Records are being inserted at the moment by a number of libraries.
Contribution of records to MEI is free and welcome: any library with
incunabula holdings is encouraged to insert their copy specific
records. Please get in touch with CERL's Secretary, Cristina Dondi at
c.dondi@cerl.org

From the Secretary of CERL, Cristina Dondi

MEI example:

ISTC Record No. ih00427960
Title proper:
Horae: ad usum Celestinorum ordinis S. Benedicti
Imprint:
Naples : Martinus de Amsterdam, 27 Jan. 1499
more...
Copies
Manchester, John Rylands University Library [Manchester JRL] (uk)
Shelfmark:
18193
Copy Id:
02000285
Size of Leaves:
140mm x 106mm
Material:
Book: parchment, vellum Plates: Watermark:
Provenance

Place:
Italy
Area:
Italy
Time Period:
16th cent., unknown decade to 16th cent., unknown decade
Type of Prov.:
Binding
Binding:
16th-century blind and gold-tooled calf ('foreign olive colour binding' in Dibdin), remains of 2 strings, 2 at fore-edge, one each upper and lower edges; at centre gilt crucifixion; gauffered edges gilt only within the gauffered design. 147 x 111 x 28 mm.
Binding Date: 16th century Binding Type: Boards Board Material: Paper Cover Material: Leather Binding Status: Untouched (Original Binding) Tooling: blind and gold Edges: gilt Writing on Edges: none Gauffered: yes
Decoration:
Woodcut initials coloured. On a1r full floral and foliate border, in pink, blue, and green, gold bezants, in the lower margin a circular wreath containing the Virgin and Child (Fava-Bresciano pl. LII). Cut red initials decorated with blue penwork.
Decoration Elements: Illuminations , Ornamental Letter , Rubrication

Sources: Book in Hand (The recording of this provenance is considered certain)
Provenance

Place:
Naples (CERL Thesaurus: cnl00004785)
Area:
Italy
Time Period:
18th cent., unknown decade to 19th cent., 2nd decade
Owner:
Luigi Serra, 1747-1825 (4th Duca di Cassano) (male; Aristocracy; unknown)
Former Owner
Note:
Catalogo [...] Cassano Serra, p. 44

Sources: Book in Hand , Auction/Sales Catalogue (The recording of this provenance is considered certain)
Provenance

Place:
London (CERL Thesaurus: cnl00007686)
Area:
Great Britain
Time Period:
19th cent., 2nd decade to 19th cent., 4th decade
Owner:
George John Spencer, 1758-1834 (2nd Earl Spencer) (CERL Thesaurus: cnp00182076) (male; Aristocracy; politician)
Former Owner
Note:
Dibdin, Cassano, p. 79 no. 120.
Method of acquisition: purchase

Sources: Book in Hand (The recording of this provenance is considered certain)
Provenance

Place:
Manchester (CERL Thesaurus: cnl00011485)
Area:
Great Britain
Time Period:
19th cent., last decade to 20th cent., unknown decade
Owner:
Enriqueta Augustina Tennant, 1843-1908 (3rd wife of John Rylands 1801-1888) (female; no characterisation/lay; unknown)
Donor
Note:
The Spencer collection was purchased in 1892 to become part of the John Rylands Library of Manchester, which she founded in 1899 as a memorial to her husband.
Method of acquisition: purchase

Sources: Book in Hand , Auction/Sales Catalogue (The recording of this provenance is considered certain)

http://www.archives.gov/

BTW: There are naturally a lot of RSS feeds:
http://www.archives.gov/social-media/rss-feeds.html

http://www.stoa.org/archives/1332

The Perseus Digital Library is pleased to publish TEI XML digital editions for Plutarch, Athenaeus, the Greek Anthology, and for most of Lucian.

http://www.sys-con.com/node/1644348

"Within the next seven years, Library and Archives Canada will put most of its services online, transforming the country's leading memory institution into a fully engaged digital organization, just in time to celebrate Confederation's 150th anniversary in 2017."