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Earliest Surviving Dated Printed Book
Today in 868, The Diamond Sutra was published in China. The copy in the British Library is “the world’s earliest complete survival of a dated printed book.” The printed scroll was one of 40,000 other...
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Yeats Lost and Found at Boston College
Young Yeats by J.S. Sargent When he was just 18 or 19 years old, in 1884, Yeats wrote a play titled “Love and Death.’’ The work was hidden among boxes of his journals, notebooks, and correspondence...
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Digital Preservation: Lost and Found Research
The fast pace of technology’s advance has left some data behind as data stored on tapes, floppy disks, and other media that is now unreadable by modern computers is essentially lost. In addition, file...
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Lost and Found: GeoCities
Good alerts us to The Deleted City, “a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century.” It turns out that when Yahoo shut down U.S. GeoCities two years ago (10 years...
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Earliest Intact European Book Now Digitized
A page from the St Cuthbert Gospel relating part of the story of Lazarus, with a contemporary marginal note reading "de mortuorum", marking out a page to be read at masses for the dead (London, British...
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Why Does Timbuktu Matter?
Image of damaged pages from a manuscript in Timbuktu showing the effects of the gradual loss of paper. Photo credit: Alexio Motsi and Mary Minicka for the Timbuktu Manuscripts Project. “Timbuktu sits...
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Preserving Astronomy’s Photographic Legacy
From FierceBigData.com: “In a 2009 paper called ‘Preserving Astronomy’s Photographic Legacy: Current State and Future of North American Astronomical Plates,’ Wayne Osborn, department of physics at...
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Preserving and Digitizing Timbuktu’s Medieval Manuscripts
Researchers at work, Timbuktu Sarah Laskow in The Boston Globe: Though today Timbuktu is a remote and dusty city of 54,000 at the edge of the Sahara, 500 years ago it was a major commercial crossroads...
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The Surui Cultural Map: Digital Preservation
The Surui Cultural Map shows the Surui tribe of the Amazon’s vision of their forest, including their territory and traditional history. To create this map, Surui youth interviewed their elders to...
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The Digital Public Library of America Launched
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full...
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