David Gwynn » Digitization Projects

Randomly Wednesday

David — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:35:17 +0000

Things have been incredibly hectic lately, which doesn’t justify the lack of recent posts, but maybe at least explains it somewhat. And this one isn’t likely to be art, either. It’s just a list of some cool projects, posts, and articles I’ve stumbled across lately:

Wolfwalk (NC State): This one’s even better on your iPhone. It’s a georeferenced history of the N.C. State campus that also uses your phone’s GPS capabilities to provide a guided walking tour. It’s just cool.
This is just one of those articles that makes me want to contact the author and offer to volunteer my labor just for a chance to play with this collection. It makes me all giddy and warm just thinking about it.
And this one, via Tame the Web, is just something I could have used earlier this week.

Civil Rights Greensboro in the News

David — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:36:01 +0000

So the project we’ve been working on for a year and a half made the local news last night. That’s always fun…

And the Winner Is…

David — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:15:39 +0000

The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) for best adaptive reuse ever of a former McDonald’s location.

Digitization at Duke

David — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:00:36 +0000

Great collection of articles on various digitization projects at Duke covers the history of the program, collections management, and interface design among other topics.

New Images in Historic Pittsburgh

David — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:00:12 +0000

Historic Pittsburgh has added 2000 new images to the online collection. This project is near and dear to my heart because it’s one of the ones that inspired me to go to library school, and also because I live in Pittsburgh part time and am fascinated by the history of the place.

AdViews

David — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:00:02 +0000

This is such a cool collection. I like the way they’ve made the entire collection “subscribable” via iTunes as well.

Civil Rights Geography

David — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:00:20 +0000

I’ll post a link to the larger project later, but here’s something I’ve been working on at work this week. Mind you, I’m wrking on a much cooler and more complicated set-up for Groceteria when I get a second here and there. More on that later, too.

View Civil Rights Greensboro Location Map in a larger map

Life and Marilyn

David — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:00:15 +0000

Evidently, I was born under the Sign of Marilyn in the Life Magazine Zodiac.

Think what you may about Google Books, but this new project is kind of cool, and will make a great time waster at some point in the future when I have actual time to waste.

Zines

David — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:21 +0000

Great article on some of the difficulties and other concerns surrounding the digitization of those hand made photocopied zines from the 1980s and 1990s.

Having worked for a Kinko’s branch in San Francisco during the heyday of the zine, I’m very familair with them, and was a fan of several titles myself. It’s not something I’d really even thought about, frankly, but the copyright concerns are a pretty big issue.

Digital Collections and Endorphins

David — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:00:51 +0000

Interesting post, if you’re interested in this sort of thing.