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May 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES NextGov: SSA launches public data hub for customer service goals. "Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O'Malley has been on the job for over 100 days, and now the public has […]
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May 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University College Cork: Landmark research on Irish Civil War fatalities launched. "The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project is a ground-breaking research and digital mapping project that covers one of the […]
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May 12, 2024
EVENTS University of Washington: Media literacy coalition in California brings MisinfoDay, first developed in Washington state, to the Golden State. "Inspired by the annual MisinfoDay co-organized through a statewide partnership between the […]
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May 12, 2024
EVENTS California Department of Technology: When 200 hackers took on California's digital government. "The California Digital Government Technology Hackathon, held on March 7-8 and hosted by UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, […]
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May 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES KSAL (Kansas): Library Launches Digital Archives. "Salina Public Library has launched an online Digital Archive giving the public virtual access to images ranging from the late 1800s to early 1900s […]
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May 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Time travel through the past, present and future of America's Chinatowns. "Today, Chinatowns remain at risk, their existence imperiled by economic hardship and encroaching gentrification: which is why […]
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May 10, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES ZDNet: OpenAI's new tool can detect its own DALL-E 3 AI images, but there's a catch. "AI-generated images can be used to trick you into believing fake content is […]
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May 10, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Centre for Business History (Sweden): Our digital reading room is open! . "The Centre for Business History in Stockholm manages over 85,000 linear meters of historical material on behalf of […]
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May 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES 404 Media: This Tool Shows Some Telegram Users' Approximate Physical Location. "A recently launched tool allows anyone to search a specific set of coordinates for Telegram users that have a […]
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May 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Virginia: First-Ever Hurricane Evacuation Order Database May Hold Keys to Future Readiness. "Our database includes evacuation orders issued by official state and local agencies in response to hurricanes […]
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May 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES TechCrunch: NYT Games launches a Wordle archive with access to more than 1,000 past puzzles. "The New York Times Games announced on Tuesday that it's launching a Wordle archive, offering […]
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May 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Boing Boing: Site tells you where you can order 6,000 species of plant. "Get Any Plant is an online aggregator of nurseries and online stores with some 6,000 […]
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May 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Government of New Zealand: Daily school attendance data now available. "A new online data dashboard released today as part of the Government's school attendance action plan makes more timely daily […]
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May 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Straits Times: AI-powered search engine makes S'pore Parliament debates more accessible. "An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search engine has been launched that makes combing through decades of parliamentary records more […]
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May 06, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Land: Google's huge search market share loss wasn't real: Data revised. "Google has 90.91% search market share, according to Statcounter's revised data. This is down from 91.38% […]
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May 06, 2024
NEW RESOURCES WGME: State hopes new resources will help ease Maine housing crisis. "To dive into how much housing is needed where, the state launched the Maine Housing Data Portal. The state's […]
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May 05, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Xtra: Inside TransCare , a new Canadian directory of trans health resources. "Transitioning can be an act of ritual—a series of movements made to renew long-severed connections to heart, body and […]
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May 05, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Discovered via Calishat Snaps (my handmade replacement for Google Alerts, which aren't as great as they used to be): Prompto. From the home page: "Prompto is an open-source web application […]
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May 04, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Servindi, and machine-translated to English: Martín Chambi: they digitize his photographic legacy . "The digital Catalog of the Martín Chambi Photographic Collection, which has more than 40,000 negatives, is now […]
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May 04, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New Zealand Herald: Thrashed, Threadbare T-Shirts Are In The Spotlight For NZ Music Month. "All that history makes this garb ripe for a retrospective, and that's exactly what the New […]
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May 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies: Launch of Syrian Memory: A Digital Archive Documenting Events since the Outbreak of the Syrian Revolution. "On Monday, 6 May 2024, the Arab […]
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May 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Volume One: PAGE BY PAGE: Want to Delve into the Pages of Volume One? UWEC Now Hosts Online Archive. "Until recently, if you wanted to look through 22 years' worth […]
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May 02, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES 9to5 Google: Google Drive keyboard shortcuts on the web are changing. "The Google Drive web client is updating its existing keyboard shortcuts to make possible ‘first-letters navigation.' First-letters navigation […]
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May 02, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Boing Boing: Online museum of classic Yamaha keyboards. "Yamaha Black Boxes is a perfectly minimal database of classic Yamaha keyboards and synths of the 1980s, maintaned by Alberto […]
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May 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES NYS Music: The Brubeck Collection At Wilton Library Launches Digital Archive Of Jazz Legend Dave Brubeck. "One of the world's premier jazz archives, The Dave Brubeck Collection at Wilton Library […]
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May 01, 2024
NEW RESOURCES International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: From Chiapas to Tamaulipas, new database maps thousands of migrants' dangerous journeys through Mexico in trailer trucks. "Data journalists reviewed public records, news coverage and […]
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Apr 30, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Wildlife Conservation Society Library and Archives: WCS Library and Archives Unveils Digitized Historic Film Collection. "The WCS Film Collection, composed largely of 35mm reels dating back to the early 1900s, […]
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Apr 30, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Decoder: OpenAI introduces "Memory" feature for ChatGPT Plus users. "OpenAI has enabled the ‘Memory' feature for all ChatGPT Plus users, the company announced via X. Memory allows users […]
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Apr 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES State of Pennsylvania: One Year of CODE PA: New Shapiro Administration Tech Team Transforms How Pennsylvanians Interact with the Commonwealth Online, Reimagines Digital Service Delivery, and Helps State Government Move […]
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Apr 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Internet Archive Blog: A Happy Ending For Some Manual Labor (And a Call for Support). "Last year, a group called DLARC, doing digitizing and indexing projects around ham radio and […]
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Apr 28, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Ancestry Blog: "You Can't Honor People If Their Names Are Spelled Wrong": Ancestry Resources and the Making of an Accurate Names List. "Today, Ancestry announced the free availability of the […]
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Apr 28, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Bit Times: Bitcoin historian creates lore website tracking memes. "Blockstream's marketing and communications director Fernando Nikolic has created a new website to track some of Bitcoin's most popular memes […]
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Apr 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES USGS: Volcano Watch — Introducing HVO's new online eruption map. "The production of maps to track the progress of ongoing eruptions has long been part of the USGS Hawaiian Volcano […]
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Apr 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Quill & Quire: CIBA launches new online directory of indies ahead of indie bookstore day. "[The site] was launched by the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association (CIBA) in January. […]
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Apr 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Not quite new to me, but I'd forgotten about it, and it needs more attention now it's been updated. University of Delaware Poison Book Project: Updates to the Arsenical Books […]
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Apr 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Michigan-Flint: UM-Flint archive collaborates to digitize Flint's historical Black newspapers . "Flint's Black historical newspapers could easily have been lost to the eroding effects of time. These publications, […]
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Apr 25, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Michigan Municipal League: MI Funding Hub Technical Assistance Program Launches for Michigan Municipalities. "The Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Opportunity (LEO) and the Michigan Municipal League have launched MI […]
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Apr 25, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Royal School of Needlework: RSN Collection Online for First Time. "The Royal School of Needlework is home to more than 10,000 unique and priceless Collection and Archive pieces. For the […]
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Apr 24, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Library of Finland: The Diversity of Themed Web Harvests undertaken in 2023: Events, Elections, and Various Phenomena. "The themed web harvests of 2023 accumulated 3509 gigabytes of material (over […]
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Apr 24, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Government Publishing Office: GPO Makes Available New Statutes at Large Dating Back to 1789. "The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added historical volumes of the United States Statutes at […]
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Apr 23, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Turkmenportal: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan launched a digital library of international documents. "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan has launched a digital library of international documents, […]
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Apr 23, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Cambridge: Everest mountaineer's letters digitised for the first time. "‘The candle is burning out and I must stop. Darling I wish you the best I can - that […]
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Apr 22, 2024
NEW RESOURCES International Labour Organization: ILO to launch new website with improved access to ILO information for all. "To facilitate access to ILO activities and knowledge the website will include improved search […]
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Apr 21, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Connecticut: New UConn Extension Publication Website Shares Answers Connecticut Residents Can Trust. "Anew UConn Extension publications site launched recently and provides fact sheets on topics affecting Connecticut residents, […]
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Apr 21, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Rest of World: 2024 AI Elections Tracker. "As more than 2 billion people in 50 countries head to the polls this year, artificial intelligence-generated content is now widely being used […]
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Apr 20, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES 9to5 Google: Google Messages preps parental controls that can stop users from sending a message. "The Google Messages app, thanks to RCS, has pretty much become Android's default messaging […]
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Apr 20, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Appeal: Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-gouging Preys On The Incarcerated. "Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of […]
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Apr 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Houses of the Oireachtas: Ceann Comhairle launches upgraded Irish legislation database website Achtanna.ie. "The Ceann Comhairle, Seán Ó Fearghaíl TD, today launched the updated Achtanna.ie website, a searchable database of […]
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Apr 19, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Eye on the Arctic: Inuit Circumpolar Council launches archive to showcase Inuit global contributions. "The Inuit Circumpolar Council-Canada has launched a digital database that the organization hopes will make their […]
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Apr 18, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Australian Computer Society: Australian researchers launch global misinformation database. "[Researchers have] developed the International Digital Policy Observatory (IDPO), a free online database tracking policies and regulations from 50 countries around […]
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Apr 18, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Google Blog: New ways to power up your electric vehicle adventures with Google Maps. "Electric vehicle ownership is on the rise, which means more people are looking for ways […]
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Apr 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Daily Nous: New: First Generation Philosophers. "A new website features autobiographical essays by philosophers who were first-generation college students. Launched today, First Generation Philosophers already has contributions from Helen De […]
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Apr 17, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Sefaria: Sefaria Adds Works of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks's to Digital Library. "Sefaria, the nonprofit organization that digitizes and freely shares Jewish texts in Hebrew and in translation, is collaborating […]
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Apr 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Western University: Western team designs platform to illustrate census data since 1951. "Click on a neighbourhood, and you can find population details on everything from age to household income to […]
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Apr 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES South Dakota State University Extension: New digital Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool launches nationwide. "Important nutrients for soil health and crop production, phosphorous and potassium are key in commonly applied fertilizers. […]
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Apr 15, 2024
Lately I've been spending a lot of time building my own tools as the state of search gets more disappointing. My newest effort is called Stract Gossip Machine, designed for use with […]
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Apr 15, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Spotted on Mastodon: Self-Hosted Apps. A listing of several hundred available self-hosted apps. Each description is brief but concise, and each listing has a "last activity" date. New Jersey Department […]
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Apr 14, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Engadget: Bluesky now allows heads of state to join the platform. "Now that Bluesky has opened itself up to the public and introduced some new moderation options, the team's […]
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Apr 14, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Conversation: The federal government's proposed AI legislation misses the mark on protecting Canadians. "Our research demonstrates key gaps in Canada's approaches to AI governance. The first issue is that […]
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Apr 13, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Atlantic Council: Iranians sacrificed their lives to share videos of regime violence. Now there's an online archive for the world to see. . "The newly renamed Iranian Archive now holds […]
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Apr 12, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Discover the Czech National Library's treasures with Google Arts & Culture. "Today, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Slavonic Library, which is part of the […]
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Apr 12, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Scimex: Grouping the messenger: Indigenous Australian Message Stick Database launched. "The first database of message sticks used in Indigenous Australia has been created, pulling together records and information on message […]
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Apr 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-Me, from Open Culture: The Fictional Brand Archives: Explore a Growing Collection of Iconic But Fake Brands Found in Movies & TV. "Los Pollos Hermanos, Madrigal Electromotive, Mesa Verde Bank […]
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Apr 11, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Spotted via Mastodon: Dark Visitors. "Insight into the hidden ecosystem of autonomous chatbots and data scrapers crawling across the web. Protect your website from unwanted AI agent access." TWEAKS AND […]
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Apr 10, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Arizona State University: Computer science student creates new tool to make AI-generated art more sustainable. "Today, most AI solutions have been created by feeding large sets of data into networks […]
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Apr 10, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Georgetown University: Georgetown alumnus develops innovative database to expose LGBTQ abuses. "When Juan Pablo Delgado (MPP'19) started litigating cases in Mexican courts on LGBTQ rights abuses, local and national authorities […]
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Apr 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Gothamist: Any environmental hazards near you? NYC has a map for that.. "A new online mapping tool from the New York City government allows New Yorkers to discover a multitude […]
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Apr 09, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Found via a news article that's far too paywalled for me to link to: India Flora Online. From the home page: "Although India has made major strides in documenting its […]
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Apr 08, 2024
(Sending this out a bit early today because of the eclipse resources.) NEW RESOURCES Longmont Leader: New database will help assess reporting laws for child protection. "Following months of research and analysis, […]
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Apr 08, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Ford Authority: Ford Times Magazines Become Public Via Ford Heritage Vault. "Ford Times magazine was created way back in 1908 as a way for the company to keep employees up […]
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Apr 07, 2024
EVENTS NCN Guyana: University of Guyana Spearheads Digital Archiving Initiative. "The University of Guyana is at the forefront of a significant initiative aimed at preserving the rich history and culture of Guyana […]
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Apr 07, 2024
NEW RESOURCES American Legion: Sons of The American Legion celebrated in new online exhibit. "The Sons of The American Legion's history is featured in a new online exhibit from the Emil A. […]
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Apr 06, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Google Blog: Discover Portland on Google Arts & Culture. "With over 75 curated stories ranging from the city's iconic Japanese garden to the longest running African Film Festival in the […]
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Apr 06, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Healio: Database offers local information about asthma prevalence, confounding factors. "Using multiple data sources, AAN [Allergy & Asthma Network] has partnered with MITRE to develop the Asthma Equity Explorer, which […]
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Apr 05, 2024
NEW RESOURCES West Virginia University Today: WVU unveils new autism resources directory during World Autism Month. "To help connect autistic people and their families to important resources more efficiently, the West Virginia […]
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Apr 05, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Musicians' Union: MU Welcomes Launch of GENIE - A New Resource Collating Gender Equality Projects in Europe . "Gender equality activist and researcher Grace Goodwin has launched GENIE (Gender Equality […]
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Apr 04, 2024
NEW RESOURCES NASA: New ‘Eclipse Watch' Tool Shows Eclipses from Space Any Time. "Do you wish you could see a total solar eclipse every day? With a new online tool called Eclipse […]
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Apr 04, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New York Times: A New Chapter for Irish Historians' ‘Saddest Book'. (This link goes to a gift article.) "Over the past seven years, a team of historians, librarians and computer […]
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Apr 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Library Board Singapore: Discover New Gen AI-enabled Reading Adventures based on Literary Classics. "In Playbrary, a latest prototype innovation by National Library Board (NLB) and creative agency LePub Singapore, […]
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Apr 03, 2024
NEW RESOURCES New-to-me, from Sky & Telescope: A Century Of Sky, Digitized . "Within the labyrinthian walls and filing cabinets of the Harvard College Observatory's Plate Stacks reside more than 600,000 glass […]
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Apr 02, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University at Albany: New York State Mesonet Launches Total Solar Eclipse Website. "A new website launched by the New York State Mesonet at the University at Albany will offer real-time […]
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Apr 02, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Simon Willison: Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in your browser. "[The tool] provides a single page web app that can run Tesseract OCR against images or PDFs that […]
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Apr 01, 2024
ResearchBuzz does not participate in April Fools Day. NEW RESOURCES TVP World: Polish war graves in Germany documented. "The Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation (FPNP) has information on 1,200 cemeteries or memorial sites […]
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Apr 01, 2024
ResearchBuzz does not participate in April Fools Day. NEW RESOURCES Principles for Responsible Management Education: Revolutionizing Responsible Management Education: Introducing the PRME Commons Digital Platform. "Today, the Principles for Responsible Management Education […]
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Mar 31, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Associated Press: Volunteers uncover fate of thousands of Lost Alaskans sent to Oregon mental hospital a century ago. "There were no facilities to treat those with mental illness or developmental […]
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Mar 31, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Pragmatika Media: In Ukraine, the HATA Hub digitalization and cultural heritage promotion platform was launched. "HATA Hub is a platform that unites specialists in cultural, creative, technological spheres, representatives of […]
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Mar 30, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Powder Magazine: The Utah Avalanche Center Now Offers A New Data Explorer Tool. "The Utah Avalanche Center (UAC) provides daily avalanche forecasts for different ranges across the state of Utah […]
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Mar 30, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Massachusetts Sheriff's Association: Massachusetts Sheriffs' Association Announces Public Dashboard Focused on Charges & Convictions for Sentenced Offenders. (This link goes to a PDF file.) "Today, in a significant stride toward […]
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Mar 29, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES Vox: The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse. "As conspiracy theorists compete for attention in the wake of a tragedy, others seek […]
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Mar 29, 2024
NEW RESOURCES University of Alberta: New resource offers a starting point in the journey of Indigenous language revitalization. "A new resource has been developed to support the work of Indigenous people, communities […]
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Mar 28, 2024
NEW RESOURCES PR Newswire: Gale Primary Sources Release Four New Archives Devoted to Contributions from Underrecognized Communities (PRESS RELEASE). "These archives unlock perspectives on interdisciplinary subjects, including the histories of LGBTQ communities […]
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Mar 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Because Of Them We Can: Because Of Them We Can Launches Free And Accessible Learning Hub For Teaching Black History Year-Round. "In a significant stride towards preserving and promoting Black […]
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Mar 27, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Government Technology: New Washington, D.C., Tool Uses Generative AI to Make Data Accessible. "DC Compass, a new GenAI-based tool launched by the district in partnership with Esri, offers users answers […]
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Mar 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Endowment for the Arts: New Resource from the NEA Will Monitor the Health and Vitality of the Arts in the U.S. . "On April 2, 2024, the National Endowment […]
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Mar 26, 2024
NEW RESOURCES Ms. Magazine: Speaking While Female: A History. "A pioneer in the field of women's speech, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell was among the first to try and set the record straight…. Three […]
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Mar 25, 2024
NEW RESOURCES FAO: New knowledge products launched to promote resilient and sustainable city region food systems. "The City Region Food Systems (CRFS) Programme recently launched a ‘digital library' to promote knowledge exchange […]
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Mar 25, 2024
NEW RESOURCES The Dominion Post: One job: 50 hoops; WVU researchers unveil database showing how trade licensing laws vary across nation. "A team from WVU's Knee Regulatory Research Center recently unveiled a […]
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Mar 24, 2024
TWEAKS AND UPDATES How-To Geek: Plex Is Giving up on Its VR Apps . "Plex is one of the best ways to stream your own movies, TV, and music collections across all […]
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Mar 24, 2024
NEW RESOURCES National Renewable Energy Laboratory: New Wind Resource Database Provides What You Need To Know—Including the Updated WIND Toolkit. "If you are planning to install a wind turbine or wind farm, […]
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