Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #histodons #bookhistory #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #digitization
@carkner@historians.socialWas happy to come across someone in the wild sharing this great article by my old boss Tara Robertson. I still think about it when I hear idealistic talk about digitising materials by marginalised people to save them. Things can be more complicated.
"I will look at the digitization of On Our Backs (OOB), a lesbian porn magazine that ran from 1984–2004, as a case study of where digitization and publishing this content online is inappropriate."
https://distantreader.org/stacks/carrels-old/x-griesinger-reading-2023/cache/robertson-not-2022.pdf
Recommendations for 35mm slide scanning in the Bay Area? Or a reputable place that does mail-order?
I've got a lot of them so price matters, but I'd also rather pay a little extra for a place that takes more care and keeps the work in-house. Not looking for the quick, discount mail order places.
It looks like another text is trying to invade.
Well, that's just another weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person. Automatic repair systems corrupt digital heritage. #bookhistory
#digitalhistory #histodons #digitization
![Screenshot of a digitized early modern book's page with a space created from a finger removal software. The book is titled "Nicolaus, de Saliceto: Liber meditationum ac orationum deuotarum qui Anthidotarius anime dicitur iterum atq[ue] iterum q[uam] diligentissime p[er]spectus et acuratissime emendatus incipit feliciter" VD 16 ZV 17296](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/113/236/308/755/751/982/original/cd12fab0e03f8fd5.jpeg "Screenshot of a digitized early modern book's page with a space created from a finger removal software. The book is titled \"Nicolaus, de Saliceto: Liber meditationum ac orationum deuotarum qui Anthidotarius anime dicitur iterum atq[ue] iterum q[uam] diligentissime p[er]spectus et acuratissime emendatus incipit feliciter\" VD 16 ZV 17296")
And another weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person. The inserted sample clearly does not fit in here (or anywhere else in this print, to be honest).
That's a kind of data corruption, if you ask me. Automatic repair systems do corrupt our digital heritage.
Headed to the Celtics championship parade today? 
Get pumped with some celebratory inspo from their iconic 1984 championship win!
Courtesy of @gbhnews
New in our collection: A remarkable #handwritten book of hours, in #Dutch: #getijdenboek, from the 15th century.
Digital copy:
https://dbc.rug.nl/digital/collection/manuscripts/id/67437/rec/1
Books like this were popular for private devotion in the #Netherlands. Many believed that reading or reciting #prayers made them better believers. The book was long lost, we recently received it as a gift.
More information:
https://books.ugp.rug.nl/index.php/ugp/catalog/view/162/167/1146
@jessienab@wetdry.worldTHE PERSON SAVING THE MEDIA YOU LOVE IS 
YOU 
An amazing write-up by a passionate preservationist, Chris Person (@Papapishu on Twitter), on why YOU are the only one that can save media you love. 
Explore a digitized collection of doomed Everest climber’s letters home - Enlarge / The final letter from George Mallory from Camp I, Mount Evere... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2018634 #magdalenecollege #mountaineering #georgemallory #digitization #mounteverest #science #history
And here the ghost aka cloud is slowly taking over the page.
Welcome to yet another example of how automatic repair systems - to be precise: finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person - do crush our digital heritage.
The human touch of #digitization. Here is another charming example of a person's hand doing a scanning job. If you work with #earlymodern books, you'll find these hands quite often. Here, a German Messrelation of 1697 was scanned in Munich (and, Alas!, the touched printed map was forgotten).
Is it a ghost? Is it a cloud? No, it is just a weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person.
Welcome to another striking example of how automatic repair systems do crush our digital heritage. #bookhistory
#digitalhistory #histodons #history #digitization
It looks like a human hand. I like the human touch of digitizing, hidden in between digitized #earlymodern newspapers. This hand was scanning a German newspaper from 1638. #NewsHistory #digitalhistory #digitization #histodons
#digitization (aside)
I scanned this 1911 issue of _Telephony_ magazine years ago (which is why it's grayscale not color), just now posted.
I find it fascinating because they're from the "expansion" phase of the new technical innovation: There are literally hundreds of little telephone companies at this point in time, and the advertising is about different kinds of wire, and fancy automobiles for repair (and how much faster they are compared with horses) &c
What was the ZOOM crew talking about during the first-ever episode in 1972? Favorite and least favorite foods of course! 
Watch the full first episode: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-547pvzxn
On this week's episode of "Julia" on Max, cooking icon Julia Child and the WGBH crew go to Washington to film inside the White House kitchens.
Watch the real visit from back in 1968: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_15-ft8df6mf00
#ServantsOfKnowledge at @BLRLitFest live digitisation installation. We digitized 50k pages & 150 books in 2 days. Liberated Motilal Banarasidass & Kannada University, Hampi books under @creativecommons @internetarchive @brewsterkahle @carlmalamud
#Digitization #India #BlrLitFest
Today we celebrate the birthday of Little Women author, Louisa May Alcott! 
In 2010, novelist Susan Cheever delved into Alcott's fascinating life and the battle of wits that led to the creation of the beloved classic, "Little Women": https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-k35m90283z
Courtesy of GBH
Princeton is digitizing its LGBTQIA+ Periodical and Ephemera Collection, with about 50 issues available so far. https://library.princeton.edu/news/general/2023-07-31/lgbtqia-periodical-and-ephemera-collection-now-digitized
Looks like an interesting webinar today (from the ALIA Digitisation & Preservation Group):
"Speakers from Trove, Wikimedia, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library discuss internal and external engagement for digitised collections. […] it is crucial to assess whether we effectively connect, communicate, and collaborate with others"
