SDR Deposit of the Week: 4chan forum archives. The free-for-all, anything-goes nature of anonymous posting to discussions boards is a defining feature of Internet subculture, and arguably nowhere has this practice been more vigorous or virulent than on 4Chan.
Now those notorious anonymous posts are available from the SDR. Launched in 2003 by founder Christopher Poole (aka “moot”), 4Chan is one of the most influential imageboard sites in web history. An imageboard is a forum that operates around circulation of and commentary on images, though 4Chan has gone well beyond that. Imageboard enthusiasts have long understood its significance in web subculture, and recognizing that the stability and permanence of such sites are never assured, have made efforts to archive it independently.
One effort was led by Ndubuisi Okeh and the Yotsuba Society. Naturally, the deposit has been promoted by Yotsuba. As a resource for scholars, the archive documents 4chan’s influence and significance in three areas: I Think I Know Who Satoshi Is.
VITAL (Virtually Integrated Technical Architecture Lifecycle) VITAL (Virtually Integrated Technical Architecture Lifecycle) allows desktop computer users in an enterprise to view data and applications in a way that appears integrated.
Users don't have to be concerned about where the data resides or how it's accessed. It also provides information professionals with a framework to develop vendor-independent corporate information systems that use the power of desktop computers in a client/server environment. It further allows information systems executives to maximize the systems they already have in place, and to plan cost-effective migration paths to new systems. The VITAL framework was initially developed by Apple's internal information systems division, with early collaboration with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
VITAL was further refined over a period of three years, with input from some of Apple's largest corporate customers. The VITAL framework groups information activities and resources in an enterprise into five areas: Mandelbrot: art, math, science, and works in progress. The image above, generated from a relatively simple mathematical formula, has become iconic and permanently connected with the man who identified it: mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.
But its iconic nature has ended up leaving it an awkward no-man's land, dismissed by art critics as kitsch, and divorced from the underlying mathematics that generated it. Now, a small exhibit in New York City is attempting to place the Mandelbrot set and other mathematical constructs back in their original context: one that's part of a long history of visualizations playing a key part in the creative process of math and science. Even though that sounds like a tall order, it's all handled in a small space on an upper floor of the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan, where the exhibit will be on display until January. "The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot" has been curated by Nina Samuel, a visiting professor who has a background in the histories of science and art.
From pens to programmers. Acquires archives of "Bay Area Video Arcades: Photographs by Ira Nowinski, 1981-1982." The Stanford University Libraries have acquired the photographic archives of "Bay Area Video Arcades: Photographs by Ira Nowinski," 1981-1982. " The archives consist of approximately 650 35mm images, with contact sheets and approximately prints and digitized images for approximately 50 selected image. Ira Nowinski is an acclaimed documentary photographer who has created extraordinary photo essays in a variety of areas of recent history, including North Beach in San Francisco, the evacuation of elderly citizens in San Francisco's SOMA district, aspects of Southeast Asian, Jewish, and Native American culture, and an important photographic study of Holocaust Memorials.
The Bay Area Video Arcades photographs were taken in 1980 and 1981 at several locations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Exhibits. The Circle of the Sun: Secular Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts The Circle of the Sun, the second of a pair of exhibitions of Western European manuscripts and fragments, will open in the Peterson Gallery, Green Library, Stanford University on Feb. 3.
The exhibition draws on Stanford's medieval and early modern manuscript holdings, including a number of recent acquisitions, to show how secular learning was recorded and transmitted in complex networks and communities of textual production and interpretation. From antiquity, scholars divided knowledge into res divinae (sacred) and res humanae (secular). The 2012 exhibit Scripting the Sacred featured religious writings, many of which were splendidly illuminated.