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The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection

The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection
Every year for the past decade or so, we‘ve seen new, dire pronouncements of the death of print, along with new, upbeat rejoinders. This year is no different, though the prognosis has seemed especially positive of late in robust appraisals of the situation from entities as divergent as The Onion’s A.V. Club and financial giant Deloitte. I, for one, find this encouraging. One such archive, the British Library’s Flickr Commons project, contains over one million images from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. One of the quirky features of this decidedly quirky assemblage is the Mechanical Curator, a bot-run blog that generates “randomly selected small illustrations and ornamentations, posted on the hour.” The Flickr Commons site itself gives us a much more conventional organization, with images—most of them discovered by the Mechanical Curator—grouped into several dozen themed albums. Related Content: 2,200 Radical Political Posters Digitized: A New Archive Related:  Digital Culture

The Public Domain Review 10 Tips for Architectural Photography | Heritage Calling We are often impressed by beautiful buildings but when we lift the camera (or our smartphone) to capture what it is that has impressed us, the result is often a little flat. James O. Davies gives his best tips to taking architectural photos so that the next time you snap, hopefully you’ll come away with something that may even be worth framing. 1. James O. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Remember, the perfect picture doesn’t exist, but you can get close! The first major book to explore English architecture between 1945 and 1975 in its entirety is published today.

Directory of Journals Welcome to the AHA's Directory of History Journals. This database provides helpful links to peer-reviewed English-language journals that publish in all fields of history. Just choose a subject category from the list below and the journal's description and submission information are a mouse-click away. Of course, no one's perfect. Browse alphabetically: How digital tech can bridge gaps between museums and audiences | Culture professionals network Is the “digital divide” still a phenomenon for museums? Lack of internet access for many people used to mean missing out on all that cultural heritage had to offer online. These days we may no longer worry whether our audiences are regularly connected to the internet, but we do make attempts to check whether our social media presence is reaching the right people. The rise of the (often risible) idea of the contemporary “digital native” has sometimes made even museums wonder whether they’re on the wrong side of the divide, unable to provide as many digital experiences as apparantly required by a technology-hungry younger generation. Perhaps the concept of a single digital divide itself belongs in a museum? Sometimes you have to collaborate with others in order to reach your audiences and digitised collections are a fertile site for creative collaborations. Collaborating with creative practitioners is one way to forge new connections with local audiences.

Free Books : Download & Streaming : eBook and Texts : Internet Archive Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here. The American Libraries collection includes material contributed from across the United States. Institutions range from the Library of Congress to many local public libraries. As a whole, this collection of material brings holdings that cover many facets of American life and scholarship into the public domain. Books contributed by the Internet Archive. Free books for the  people with disabilities that impact reading. Books in this collection may be borrowed by logged in patrons. This library of books, audio, video, and other materials from and about India is curated and maintained by Public Resource. Uploads from the general users of ARCHIVE.ORG related to Islamic culture, studies and related subjects. Collection of texts by language. Texts with language specifed as arabic OR ara by Internet Archive Canada Welcome to the Canadian Libraries page. The John P.

Eight reasons the new National Trust website is funkier than yours "Oh, he lives in a house, a very big house in the country." Join me in song as I celebrate one of the most beloved institutions in the UK and the launch of its new website. Yes, it's the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, or simply National Trust for short. Here are some cool bits from its new responsive website, developed with Digitas LBI. Ghost buttons... Lovely stuff. This nice bit of CSS helps every call to action look a little more elegant and means they don't have to detract as much from content. ...including the best call to action ever written There's nothing more to say about this, other than it's not a euphemism, and you can click through below if you'd like to go. Colour and contrast The National Trust is about cultural heritage, but a shorthand for that is beauty. So, it's very pleasing that the new Trust website has such bold colouring and contrast throughout. Below is a selection of elements that stood out. A long-arsed membership landing page

Browse Our Games, Events, Exhibitions & More | SHOW ME quora How fraudsters can use the forgotten details of your online life to reel you in | Scams I’m sitting in a meeting room in Cambridge when a photo of a cat in a jigsaw box appears on the whiteboard. “Is this your cat?” asks anti-fraud expert Steve Goddard. I nod. And so begins a whistlestop tour of my life online. In the next five minutes I discover that details of my school lunchtime activities are available if you know where to look, that I take far more photos of flowers than I had realised, and that I have offered scammers enough information for them to have a chance of reeling me in. These snippets are tools that Goddard says a fraudster could use as a starting point to “socially engineer” me – someone could use them to gain my trust and manipulate me into handing over details they could then deploy in a scam. Goddard shows me a tweet where I expressed my despair at a delivery firm failing to find my house, and suggests it would have been easy for someone to pose as the courier and get more out of me. It’s true. The starting point was Facebook.

Measuring emotion at Burberry - Danny Hearn Writing Measuring emotion at Burberry I was part of the team with Clearleft, a design agency, to help redesign the burberry.com checkout with the role of a user researcher. The challenge was to create a modern website checkout that evoked the Burberry brand. The Burberry team needed confidence that customers felt like it was a Burberry experience. It was important that my research gave confidence that customers would find it simple and easy and critically, feel like it is a Burberry experience. A website’s checkout has a primary function; to get people through the final hurdle of the purchase journey. Measuring and quantifying emotion A great tool to measure and quantify emotion (that UX researcher James Chapman introduced to me at John Lewis) is the Bipolar Emotional Response Technique (BERT). At Burberry, it was essential that customers feel and perceive the checkout experience as consistent with their brand. Each week the team was developing a new prototype of the checkout design.

How to Find the Wi-Fi Password for Every Network You've Ever Connected To Are you looking for the Wi-Fi password for a network you've logged in to in the past? Whether it's a school, work or coffee shop network, the password should be stored on your laptop. But if it doesn't automatically connect to the network next time, you may have to do a little digging to find out what the password is. If your computer has connected to that Wi-Fi network before, don't worry. We'll tell you how to find the passwords to all of the Wi-Fi networks you've ever connected to on MacOS and Windows. How to find Wi-Fi passwords with MacOS Every password you've entered and saved on a Mac is stored in Keychain Access, the password management system for MacOS. To start, use the search feature to open the Keychain Access app and do the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. The password field will then show the password you used to log in to that Wi-Fi network. How to find Wi-Fi passwords on Windows To find the password to the Wi-Fi network you're currently connected to on Windows: 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3.

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