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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/11/king-arthur-manuscript-auction?intcmp=239
One of the most romantic manuscripts of the medieval ages, the stories of chivalry, treachery and passion of King Arthur, his knights and his faithless wife, is to be auctioned next month and could fetch up to £2m.
All the stories of Arthur, Merlin, and his knights of the Round Table, of the Lady of the Lake, Guinevere's fatal love for Lancelot, and of the quest for the Holy Grail, which inspired artists from Tennyson and William Morris to Indiana Jones and Monty Python, are in the three huge volumes of the Rochefoucauld Grail. [...]
The volumes with 107 jewel-like illustrations against backgrounds of pure gold leaf were probably made in Flanders in the early 14th century for the Baron de Rochefoucauld while he was a representative of the French king. The grail is seen as one of the greatest medieval manuscripts still privately owned. [...]
These three volumes were acquired in the 19th century by Sir Thomas Phillips, whose extraordinary collection once held more than 60,000 medieval manuscripts. Since then it has been sold just twice.
It is now being sold by a Dutch businessman, J R Ritman, who has been collecting works of art and manuscripts since he was a teenager, to raise funds for the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, the library on the history of mysticism and alchemy he founded in his native Amsterdam.
One of the most romantic manuscripts of the medieval ages, the stories of chivalry, treachery and passion of King Arthur, his knights and his faithless wife, is to be auctioned next month and could fetch up to £2m.
All the stories of Arthur, Merlin, and his knights of the Round Table, of the Lady of the Lake, Guinevere's fatal love for Lancelot, and of the quest for the Holy Grail, which inspired artists from Tennyson and William Morris to Indiana Jones and Monty Python, are in the three huge volumes of the Rochefoucauld Grail. [...]
The volumes with 107 jewel-like illustrations against backgrounds of pure gold leaf were probably made in Flanders in the early 14th century for the Baron de Rochefoucauld while he was a representative of the French king. The grail is seen as one of the greatest medieval manuscripts still privately owned. [...]
These three volumes were acquired in the 19th century by Sir Thomas Phillips, whose extraordinary collection once held more than 60,000 medieval manuscripts. Since then it has been sold just twice.
It is now being sold by a Dutch businessman, J R Ritman, who has been collecting works of art and manuscripts since he was a teenager, to raise funds for the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, the library on the history of mysticism and alchemy he founded in his native Amsterdam.
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 11. November 2010, 23:32 - Rubrik: English Corner
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The University of Chicago Library’s Special Collections Research Center has a launched an initiative for the digitization of archives and manuscript collections. The digital images are being made available via the online finding aid for each collection. This will recreate for the online user the experience of a researcher encountering the original materials in the SCRC Reading Room, with documents displayed as they are housed in each folder, and with description of the contents in the form of folder headings.
Individual, high-resolution images of each page will be permanently preserved in the Library's digital repository, and can be made available for publication or other research needs. Due to provisions of copyright laws, digitization efforts are currently focused on materials in the public domain, or those for which the University of Chicago holds copyright.
Collections with digitized content now available online include:
· The Ida B. Wells Papers contain diaries, correspondence, manuscripts and photographs documenting the life of the teacher, journalist, and anti-lynching activist. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.IBWELLS
· The Dr. Harry Bakwin and Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Soviet Posters Collection contains nineteen Soviet political posters produced in the early 1930s, collected by the American physicians Dr. Harry Bakwin and Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin during two trips to the Soviet Union.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.BAKWINPOSTERS
· The Fielding Lewis Papers contain business, personal and legal records documenting life on a plantation on the James River in Virginia, both before and after the Civil War.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.LEWISF
· The University of Chicago Laboratory School Work Reports are made up of reports about the Elementary and Secondary division of the Laboratory School, and document classroom activities in the School's first decade. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.LABSCHOOLREPORT
· The Jefferson Davis Trial Papers document the legal entanglements, ambiguous delays, political floundering, and shifting of responsibilities surrounding Jefferson Davis' first indictment for treason.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.MS979JDavis
· The Thomas Winston Papers relate primarily to Winston's activities as a surgeon with Illinois troops during the Civil War.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.WINSTONT
· The Middle Eastern Poster Collection produced by government offices and private organizations, primarily in Iran and Afghanistan.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.MEPOSTERS
For those of you who are interested in the production details, the Large Scale Digitization Initiative is a collaborative effort involving the Special Collections Research, the Preservation Department, and the Digital Library Development Center. The initiative has been guided by definitions of, and requirements for, mass digitization provided by funding agencies such as the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. These guidelines stress expedited scanning workflows, without sacrifice of image quality, and with close attention to preservation concerns, and the use of existing descriptive metadata, such as that provided by a finding aid.
The collections are scanned by Preservation staff. The documents are scanned in color, in the order in which they are filed in each folder, and a .TIFF file is created for each page image. A naming scheme is used for the files which can be extended to other collections scanned as part of the initiative. The TIFF images from each folder in the physical collection are combined into PDFs for delivery. PDF was chosen as a delivery format because of its simplicity, stability and ubiquity. It is expected that the vast majority of users will have PDF viewers on their computers, and will be able to use them to enlarge, decrease, rotate, print, and otherwise easily view the images. Although the images are delivered as pdfs, the tifs of each page will be stored in the digital repository, and will be available if needed for other purposes.
Links to the digital files are added to the online finding aid by SCRC staff. The Encoded Archival Description (EAD) tags chosen allow links to be created at any level of description in the finding aid, from series, to folder, to item, and for multiple links to be attached to a particular description. DLDC staff updated the style sheets to allow display of the links in the finding aids database. DLDC is also hosting the digital files, which will be retained in and delivered from the digital repository.
The procedures developed for large scale digitization of archives and manuscript collections are simple and extensible. Future plans call for the delivery of digital audio files and, eventually, of born-digital content, and for full-text searching of digitized typescript documents, which can be made keyword searchable through optical character recognition (OCR).
Large Scale Digitization Team include: Eileen A. Ielmini, Kathleen Feeney, Daniel Meyer, Kathy Arthur, Karen Dirr, Charles Blair, and the student scanners in Preservation.
Individual, high-resolution images of each page will be permanently preserved in the Library's digital repository, and can be made available for publication or other research needs. Due to provisions of copyright laws, digitization efforts are currently focused on materials in the public domain, or those for which the University of Chicago holds copyright.
Collections with digitized content now available online include:
· The Ida B. Wells Papers contain diaries, correspondence, manuscripts and photographs documenting the life of the teacher, journalist, and anti-lynching activist. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.IBWELLS
· The Dr. Harry Bakwin and Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Soviet Posters Collection contains nineteen Soviet political posters produced in the early 1930s, collected by the American physicians Dr. Harry Bakwin and Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin during two trips to the Soviet Union.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.BAKWINPOSTERS
· The Fielding Lewis Papers contain business, personal and legal records documenting life on a plantation on the James River in Virginia, both before and after the Civil War.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.LEWISF
· The University of Chicago Laboratory School Work Reports are made up of reports about the Elementary and Secondary division of the Laboratory School, and document classroom activities in the School's first decade. http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.LABSCHOOLREPORT
· The Jefferson Davis Trial Papers document the legal entanglements, ambiguous delays, political floundering, and shifting of responsibilities surrounding Jefferson Davis' first indictment for treason.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.MS979JDavis
· The Thomas Winston Papers relate primarily to Winston's activities as a surgeon with Illinois troops during the Civil War.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.WINSTONT
· The Middle Eastern Poster Collection produced by government offices and private organizations, primarily in Iran and Afghanistan.
http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/scrc/ead/ICU.SPCL.MEPOSTERS
For those of you who are interested in the production details, the Large Scale Digitization Initiative is a collaborative effort involving the Special Collections Research, the Preservation Department, and the Digital Library Development Center. The initiative has been guided by definitions of, and requirements for, mass digitization provided by funding agencies such as the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. These guidelines stress expedited scanning workflows, without sacrifice of image quality, and with close attention to preservation concerns, and the use of existing descriptive metadata, such as that provided by a finding aid.
The collections are scanned by Preservation staff. The documents are scanned in color, in the order in which they are filed in each folder, and a .TIFF file is created for each page image. A naming scheme is used for the files which can be extended to other collections scanned as part of the initiative. The TIFF images from each folder in the physical collection are combined into PDFs for delivery. PDF was chosen as a delivery format because of its simplicity, stability and ubiquity. It is expected that the vast majority of users will have PDF viewers on their computers, and will be able to use them to enlarge, decrease, rotate, print, and otherwise easily view the images. Although the images are delivered as pdfs, the tifs of each page will be stored in the digital repository, and will be available if needed for other purposes.
Links to the digital files are added to the online finding aid by SCRC staff. The Encoded Archival Description (EAD) tags chosen allow links to be created at any level of description in the finding aid, from series, to folder, to item, and for multiple links to be attached to a particular description. DLDC staff updated the style sheets to allow display of the links in the finding aids database. DLDC is also hosting the digital files, which will be retained in and delivered from the digital repository.
The procedures developed for large scale digitization of archives and manuscript collections are simple and extensible. Future plans call for the delivery of digital audio files and, eventually, of born-digital content, and for full-text searching of digitized typescript documents, which can be made keyword searchable through optical character recognition (OCR).
Large Scale Digitization Team include: Eileen A. Ielmini, Kathleen Feeney, Daniel Meyer, Kathy Arthur, Karen Dirr, Charles Blair, and the student scanners in Preservation.
KlausGraf - am Donnerstag, 11. November 2010, 18:28 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/10/mark-twain-on-proofreaders.html
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made proof-readers." - Mark Twain, 1893.
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made proof-readers." - Mark Twain, 1893.
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 10. November 2010, 00:43 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.emeraldinsight.com/about/news/press-pack-charleston.htm
"Emerald Group Publishing Limited is delighted to unveil the first articles in open access as part of its ‘special partnership’ with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Available from November 1, 2010, the fourteen articles are published in four different Emerald journals: Interlending & Document Supply, Library Hi Tech News, Performance Measurement and Metrics, and Program.
Under this agreement, papers that have their origins in an IFLA conference or project, have the opportunity to be published in one of Emerald’s LIS journals and become open access nine months after publication."
http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61707
"Emerald Group Publishing Limited is delighted to unveil the first articles in open access as part of its ‘special partnership’ with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Available from November 1, 2010, the fourteen articles are published in four different Emerald journals: Interlending & Document Supply, Library Hi Tech News, Performance Measurement and Metrics, and Program.
Under this agreement, papers that have their origins in an IFLA conference or project, have the opportunity to be published in one of Emerald’s LIS journals and become open access nine months after publication."
http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61707
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 5. November 2010, 23:17 - Rubrik: English Corner
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http://www.researchbuzz.org/r/?p=2389
" this online collection is 8,000 depositions by onlookers that runs to 31 volumes containing 19,000 pages. You can access it at http://1641.tcd.ie/. (Searching is open but looking at transcripts requires registration. All registration requires is an e-mail and a password.)"
" this online collection is 8,000 depositions by onlookers that runs to 31 volumes containing 19,000 pages. You can access it at http://1641.tcd.ie/. (Searching is open but looking at transcripts requires registration. All registration requires is an e-mail and a password.)"
KlausGraf - am Freitag, 5. November 2010, 22:58 - Rubrik: English Corner
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Robert Darnton
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library
NOVEMBER 17, 2010 (WEDNESDAY)
Columbia University Faculty House, Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 6:30PM
“Blogging, Now and Then (250 years ago)”
Long before the Internet, Europeans exchanged information in ways that
anticipated blogging. The key element of their information system was the
“anecdote,” a term that meant nearly the opposite then from what it means
today. Anecdotes, dispensed by “libellistes” and “paragraph men,” became a
staple in the daily diet of news consumed by readers in eighteenth-century
France and England. They were also pilfered, reworked, and served up in
books. By tracking anecdotes through texts, we can reassess a rich strain
of history and literature.
Please note special time & location:
Columbia University Faculty House, Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 6:30PM
Map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/faculty_house.html
This event is free and open to the public.
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library
NOVEMBER 17, 2010 (WEDNESDAY)
Columbia University Faculty House, Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 6:30PM
“Blogging, Now and Then (250 years ago)”
Long before the Internet, Europeans exchanged information in ways that
anticipated blogging. The key element of their information system was the
“anecdote,” a term that meant nearly the opposite then from what it means
today. Anecdotes, dispensed by “libellistes” and “paragraph men,” became a
staple in the daily diet of news consumed by readers in eighteenth-century
France and England. They were also pilfered, reworked, and served up in
books. By tracking anecdotes through texts, we can reassess a rich strain
of history and literature.
Please note special time & location:
Columbia University Faculty House, Seminar Room, 2nd floor, 6:30PM
Map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/faculty_house.html
This event is free and open to the public.
KlausGraf - am Mittwoch, 3. November 2010, 17:46 - Rubrik: English Corner
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If you are a historian or archivist, broadly defined, and you consider
yourself an activist, we invite you to fill out a survey about your
experiences. The definition of "activist" that we are using is "an
especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, esp. a political cause."
This survey is being collected for a study of historians and archivists as
activists. The survey explores the ways in which people participate as
activists and the consequences for their employers and themselves. We
anticipate this survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
The survey can be found at:
https://forms.wm.edu/997
Your participation is strictly voluntary. By answering the survey, you are
agreeing to participate in the study. You may skip any questions you do not
want to answer. Your name and contact information will not be collected, so
you will remain anonymous. Data will be used in summary form for the most
part. Where individual answers are used in the study, the identification
will be too general to identify a specific individual. For example, instead
of describing someone as a forty-something Korean archivist at a religious
archives in Oregon, the person would be described as an Asian archivist in
the northwest.
If you have any questions or problems that arise in connection with your
participation in this study, you should contact Dr. Beatriz Hardy, the
project co-director, at 757-221-3055 or bbhard[at]wm.edu; Sonia Yaco, the
project co-director, at 757-683-4483 or SYaco[at]odu.edu; or Dr. Lee
Kirkpatrick, Chair of the Protection of Human Subjects Committee at the
College of William and Mary at 757-221-2778 or lakirk[at]wm.edu.
Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey!
Bea Hardy, Interim Dean of University Libraries College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Sonia Yaco, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist Old
Dominion University Norfolk, VA
Via H-Museum
yourself an activist, we invite you to fill out a survey about your
experiences. The definition of "activist" that we are using is "an
especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, esp. a political cause."
This survey is being collected for a study of historians and archivists as
activists. The survey explores the ways in which people participate as
activists and the consequences for their employers and themselves. We
anticipate this survey will take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
The survey can be found at:
https://forms.wm.edu/997
Your participation is strictly voluntary. By answering the survey, you are
agreeing to participate in the study. You may skip any questions you do not
want to answer. Your name and contact information will not be collected, so
you will remain anonymous. Data will be used in summary form for the most
part. Where individual answers are used in the study, the identification
will be too general to identify a specific individual. For example, instead
of describing someone as a forty-something Korean archivist at a religious
archives in Oregon, the person would be described as an Asian archivist in
the northwest.
If you have any questions or problems that arise in connection with your
participation in this study, you should contact Dr. Beatriz Hardy, the
project co-director, at 757-221-3055 or bbhard[at]wm.edu; Sonia Yaco, the
project co-director, at 757-683-4483 or SYaco[at]odu.edu; or Dr. Lee
Kirkpatrick, Chair of the Protection of Human Subjects Committee at the
College of William and Mary at 757-221-2778 or lakirk[at]wm.edu.
Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey!
Bea Hardy, Interim Dean of University Libraries College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA
Sonia Yaco, Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist Old
Dominion University Norfolk, VA
Via H-Museum
KlausGraf - am Montag, 1. November 2010, 18:50 - Rubrik: English Corner
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“Archiving Web Video” by Radu Pop, Gabrile Vasile and Julien Masanes
“Terminology Evolution Module for Web Archives in the LiWA Context"
by Nina Tahmasebi, Gideon Zenz, Tereza Iofciu and Thomas Risse
“Archiving Data Objects using Web Feeds”
by Marilena Oita and Pierre Senellart
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“Terminology Evolution Module for Web Archives in the LiWA Context"
by Nina Tahmasebi, Gideon Zenz, Tereza Iofciu and Thomas Risse
“Archiving Data Objects using Web Feeds”
by Marilena Oita and Pierre Senellart
via Resourceblog
Wolf Thomas - am Montag, 1. November 2010, 15:32 - Rubrik: English Corner
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