DLSS is the information technology production arm of Stanford University Libraries
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Mark Ruwedel: 72 and One Half Miles Across Los Angeles - voiceover interview between Mark Ruwedel and his partner Corrine Corry youtube.com/watch?v=AWN-BsxW… (@StanfordSpec has acquired over 450 photographs)
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Watch the race to be the largest print centre of early modern Europe!
In today's blog, @gj_kemp charts how the centres of book production shifted over time.
wp.me/p9AJ9N-XD
#bookhistory #digitalhumanities #datavisualization #datavisualisation
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How do you identify a printed book that's lost its title page? Here, by using the offset on the flyleaf, flipping and enhancing the photo, then superposing the real title page to check the spacing... we can reveal that it's a 1716 edition of Virgil's works
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Picturing Valentine’s Day
A Georgian fan advising ladies on love, life, and morals. Find this and other Valentine's Day inspiration in this Stanford News story.
news.stanford.edu/2020/02/12…
#ValentinesDay
ALT Georgian fan
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"Picturing Valentine’s Day" revisits a fan that we imaged in the digitization lab, as well as other "artwork and objects that evoke the rituals and romance of Valentine’s Day" 💗🌸See: news.stanford.edu/2020/02/12…
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Stanford player piano research receives best paper award
The paper describes the digitization process of a collection of historical Welte-Mignon piano roll recordings held in the Stanford University Piano Roll Archive (SUPRA).
library.stanford.edu/blogs/s…
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#CaroleeSchneemann, a pioneer of feminist performance art, passed away last night. Here she is interviewed by #LynnHershmanLeeson in 1990/1 as part of !Women Art Revolution exhibits.stanford.edu/women-… @StanfordSpec
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Saddened to hear of Carolee Schneemann’s death. We’ve posted about her archival materials many times as we’ve installed them in exhibits around the world. This image is from her collection that she created and recreated for her performances including Meat Joy. M1892
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New Ambrose Bierce manuscript collection open for research: Foster Family Collection of Ambrose Bierce materials shar.es/amv7sR
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With its gilded fore-edge and gold-tooled black leather binding, this 17thC Roman Kalendarium was status marker as much as functional object. bit.ly/2Sz9NAl #foreedgefriday
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A new online exhibit, Beautiful Books: A collection of some of Stanford's rare and antiquarian books, highlights Special Collections' efforts to digitize books with unique or noteworthy features: exhibits.stanford.edu/beauti… @StanfordLibs #RareBooks
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Conservator David Brock made this remarkable model for the early printed book class. It shows binding history from 1450-1700 in 1 structure.
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Prof Kären Wigen @BrannerLibrary lecturing on the Omi-Kuniezu Tax Map; see digitization work library.stanford.edu/blogs/d…
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Definitely not skull-king about during 3D imaging, wk 2! @DigitalLib & @CHImaging are at it again. #photogrammetry
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Kicked off our #3Dscanning pilot w/ @CHImaging today. Test capture: a mosaic that fell from @memchu after 1906 quake.
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Work-related food puns at our @DigitalLib meeting! The well deserving winners: @cathyaster & @mejackreed 👏
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See how the Stanford Libraries digitized the massive William Smith map - considered the first national geologic map. youtu.be/YmOMxK9A_7c
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First #iiif event sharing with the broader community of museums and other cultural heritage institutions: More adopters, everyone profits.