Archive: April 2013 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Leslie Johnston; (Year) 2013; (Month) April

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Before You Were Born: Image Digitization, a Personal Reminiscence

April 25, 2013

Image scanning of one sort or another has been in common usage in some industries since the 1920s. Yes, really, the 1920s. The news wire services used telephotography — where images are captured using photo cells and transmitted over phone lines — well into the 1990s. Scanners and digital cameras like those we are familiar …

Posted in: Digital Content

Digital Humanities and Digital Preservation

April 12, 2013

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

This past April 8 was the 2013 “Day of Digital Humanities.” Started in 2010, this is an annual event of blogging and tweeting about the experience of digital humanities by graduate students, professors, alt-academics, librarians and other participants who identify with the field. And “the field” of Digital Humanities can be whatever you define it …

Posted in: Digital Content, Outreach and Events

Refined by: (Author) Leslie Johnston; (Year) 2013; (Month) April