A project by Shahak Shapira, combining selfies from Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial with footage from Nazi extermination camps.
Source : YOLOCAUST
Étiquette : history (Page 4 of 6)
Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of government data onto independent servers in hopes of safeguarding it from any political interference.
Timelapse is a global, zoomable video that lets you see how the Earth has changed over the past 32 years. It is made from 33 cloud-free annual mosaics, one for each year from 1984 to 2016, which are made interactively explorable by Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab’s Time Machine library, a technology for creating and viewing zoomable and pannable timelapses over space and time.
Source : Timelapse – Google Earth Engine
The history of libraries is one of loss. The Library of Alexandria is best known for its disappearance. Libraries like ours are susceptible to different fault lines: Earthquakes, Legal regimes, Institutional failure. So this year, we have set a new goal: to create a copy of Internet Archive’s digital collections in another country. We are building the Internet Archive of Canada because, to quote our friends at LOCKSS, “lots of copies keep stuff safe.”
Toute analogie entre l’élection de Trump et les tremblements de terre ne serait que pure fiction…
Source : Help Us Keep the Archive Free, Accessible, and Reader Private | Internet Archive Blogs
The phrase “hanging up the phone” actually made sense.
We’ll let you know when there’s a saved version of what you’re looking for on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Source : Firefox Test Pilot
The last company that still makes VHS players will reportedly cease production of the technology at the end of July.
Photographers’ Identities Catalog (PIC) is an experimental interface to a collection of biographical data describing photographers, studios, manufacturers, and others involved in the production of photographic images. Consisting of names, nationalities, dates, locations and more, PIC is a vast and growing resource for the historian, student, genealogist, or any lover of photography’s history. The information has been culled from trusted biographical dictionaries, catalogs and databases, and from extensive original research by NYPL Photography Collection staff.
At Europeana we are able to show the 20th century black hole in our dataset by looking at the temporal distribution of works within the dataset.
Source : The missing decades: the 20th century black hole in Europeana – Europeana Professional
Pick a decade, pick a country, and let yourself get carried away by the most beautiful musical collection in the world!
Source : Radiooooo.com – The Musical Time Machine – Via my sister Lia