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The Archives of American Art,
part of the Smithsonian Institution, based in Washington DC, assembles
and maintains collections of letters, memoirs, photographs, exhibition
announcements, shipping invoices, bills of sale, loan agreements,
scrapbooks, museum catalogues and other documentation of the visual
arts in America. http://artarchives.si.edu |
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The Vatican Library Project
site includes sample image files with explanatory material.
Methodologies (scanning, watermarking, etc.) used in the digitization
project are explained in a paper available at http://www.rese arch.ibm.com/journal/rd/mintz/mintzer.html
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The American Memory Project,
part of the Library of Congress of the United States government
contains an astonishing wealth of information. Topics include: Early
American Mutoscope & Biograph Films of D.W. Griffith; Ex-Slave
Narratives collected during the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project
of the WPA; Meeting of the Frontiers, the story of the dual exploration
of Siberia and Alaska during the late-eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries; Revolutionary War Maps from British, American and French
cartographers. American Memory materials are organized and searchable
by broad topics, by time (beginning with 1400's-1699), and place
(regions of USA). There is also an extensive list of the many more sets
of materials currently being prepared for inclusion. The three
resources listed above provide examples of archives about arts and
letters. http://memory.loc.gov |
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This one is a work of web art about archives of arts and letters: The Unreliable Archivist,
at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN), includes an essay by Steve
Dietz, and work by the artistic trio of Janet Cohen, Keith Frank and
Jon Ippolito. The Unreliable Archivist explores, celebrates, and
ridicules the limitations of web-based artforms placed in cold storage
by museums. Using archived material from the important early web
project, äda'web, the artists provide the visitor with limited
maneuverability around preselected elements of the äda'web source
materials. Distorted archival materials result. http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/three/dietz_ua.html |
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Brewster Kahle was quoted in an article about a 1998 conference, Time and Bits - Managing Digital Continuity. See http://www.longnow.com/10klibrary/TimeBitsDisc/mail/0044.html |
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Anne M Carley, Back to the Archives - The Ghost of Parchment Future, from Arts4All Newsletter, July 1999 available at http://www.arts4all.com/newsletter/issue2/carley7_19.html. |
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Seymour Durst Collection of "New Yorkiana" at CUNY http://www.oldyorklibrary.com |
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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative http://cdli.ucla.edu/ |
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The Lester Levy Sheet Music collection is at http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/ |
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Rosetta Disk http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_815000/815681.stm |
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See various dispositions of library catalogue cards (scratch paper, encased in plastic for bookmarks, given away to library staff and board members) described at http://www.iii.com/sales/newsletters/inntouch-oct98.html |
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Los Angeles Public Library art (including cards from former card catalogue) http://www.lapl.org/central/art_n_arch.html |
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AIDS Quilt http://www.aidsquilt.org |
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Cambodian Genocide Project http://www.yale.edu/cgp/ |
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List of Print References |
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Maxwell L. Anderson, "Preserving the Perishable Art of the Digital Age," New York Times Sunday 9/24/2000 at Arts page 33 |
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Dinitia Smith, "Random House to Aid Holocaust Memoir Project," New York Times 10/4/2000, at page E6 |
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Nicholson Baker’s piece, "Deadline," was in The New Yorker 7/24/2000 at page 42 et seq. A rebuttal is at http://www.oclc.org/oclc/presres/pubpres/wcybulskiresponse.htm |
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Margarett Loke, "History for Sale, Dents and All," New York Times 9/18/2000 at page E1 |
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Warren E. Leary, "New Homes for the 'Charters of Freedom'," New York Times 9/12/2000 at page F1 |
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