Virtual Laboratory

http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/index_html

Ich glaub ich bin schon lange nicht mehr so lange auf einer website geblieben.

"The Virtual Laboratory is a digitalization project devoted to the history of the experimentalization of life. Its main focus is the interaction between the life sciences, arts and architecture, media and technology. It consists of two related parts, an archive and the laboratory.

As an archive, the VL offers numerous scans of texts and images concerning experiments, instruments, buildings, scientists and artists between 1830 and 1930 as well as categorized datasheets derived from this holdings.

The laboratory constitutes a platform where historians of science, culture and technology as well as students can present their recent research on the experimentalization of life and explore new modes of writing history."

The HyperStudio - Laboratory for Digital Humanities

http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/

"The HyperStudio - Laboratory for Digital Humanities explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of education and research in the humanities.

Our work focuses on questions about the integration of technology into humanities curricula within the broader context of scholarly inquiry and educational practice. We conceptualize, develop, and deploy innovative media applications in close collaboration with scholars, educators, students, and developers."

Harbin Jewish Cemetery

http://www.zegk.uni-heidelberg.de/hist/ausstellungen/harbin/project.html

"During the 1920ies Harbin turned into a multiethnic centre in which the Jewish community played a decisive role. The Harbin Jewish Cemetery established in 1903 was located at No.54, Dongda Zhi Street. During the 1920ies it was extended and relocated to Tai’an Street. With its 2,420 m2 it was the largest among alien residents’ cemeteries at that time in Harbin. In 1958, the Chinese authorities decided to move the Jewish Cemetery to the Huang Shan Public Cemetery located at the outskirts of Harbin´s municipal boundaries. From approximate 3000 graves of which 1200 with tombstones, 853 were selected and transferred to an area of 6,532.00 square meters in an eastern suburb about 10 km from the centre of Harbin. During the Cultural Revolution, maintenance of the cemetery ceased: Slabs subsided, tombstones inclined, cracked or damaged, and some of the slabs disappeared. The Jewish community stopped functioning on December 31, 1963, and until that date 23 graves were added to the new location, bringing a total of 876 graves to the site. Maintenance was restarted in 1991, and 450 gravestones could be identified today."
"The project was carried out by the History Department, Centre for European History and Culture (ZEGK), University of Heidelberg, led by Professor Madeleine Herren in cooperation with the School of Western Studies, Heilongjiang University, guided by Professor Dan Ben-Canaan."

Historical Photographs of China

http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/index.php

"A collaboration between scholars at the University of Bristol, University of Lincoln, and the Institut d'Asie Orientale, this project aims to locate, archive, and disseminate photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private hands overseas"

Die Zeit über die Europeana

http://www.zeit.de/video/player?videoID=20090223b27f44

Achja, da war doch was.

Sephardic Music

http://www.sephardicmusic.org/index.htm

"This website showcases over 100 years of recorded Sephardic music, from the 78 rpm era to the present. It first explores in detail the earliest Sephardic recordings, the artists that made them, and their repertory and performance practices. These early recordings tell a rich story of Sephardic musical life in the first half of the 20th century."

Via Intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090122-10384744

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts

Ich bin gerade via "In the Middle" auf diese Seite gestoßen:

http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/index.php

"Welcome to the Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts. This site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web.
You can use the search box to quickly search on specific terms, or use the "Search Manuscripts" link to search on particular fields, such as date, or provenance information.
You can also browse the Catalogue by the Location of an archive or library, the shelfmark of an item, by the author of a text (where that information is available), or by the language of a text (again, where available)."

Smithonian's History Explorer

http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu/index.asp

Gedacht als "Your gateway to innovative, standards-based online resources for teaching and learning American history, designed and developed by the National Museum of American History as part of Verizon's thinkfinity.org consortium."

Das wird bestimmt eine Super-Quelle für kommende Schulbuchforscher (Wie heissen die eigentlich in "digital"?).

Man selbst merkt, wie alt man ist, wenn erklärt werden muss, was das da für komische graue Kästen ist:
http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu/artifacts/resource.asp?id=240
http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu/artifacts/resource.asp?id=755

Aber wie kommt man gerade dort auf Andreas Vesal?
http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu/artifacts/resource.asp?id=1087

World History Sources

http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/index.html

"World History Sources reflects three approaches central to current world history scholarship: an emphasis on comparative issues rather than civilizations in isolation; a focus on contacts among different societies and the economic, social, and cultural consequences of those contacts; and an attentiveness to “global” forces that transcend individual societies or even societies in mutual contact—forces such as technology diffusion, migration, disease transmission, extension and realignments of trade routes, or missionary outreach. World History Sources also benefits tremendously from recent advances in our understanding of how historical learning takes place, building on strategies designed to improve historical learning and history teaching."

Weltausstellungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

• http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digilit/weltausstellungen.html
  
  "Zum Bestand des Sondersammelgebiets Kunstgeschichte der UB Heidelberg gehören zahlreiche Titel, die sich mit den Weltausstellungen des 19. Jahrhunderts befassen. Hierzu zählen neben der aktuellen Forschungsliteratur auch zeitgenössische Ausstellungskataloge, Augenzeugenberichte oder historische Darstellungen der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Diese werden in den kommenden Monaten vollständig digitalisiert und via Internet kostenfrei zugänglich gemacht."
  
  
• Auch nicht schlecht ist diese Seite:
  http://www.expomuseum.com/
  
  
• http://lib.umd.edu/digital/worldsfairs/introduction.jsp
  "A Treasury of World's Fair Art & Architecture. This digital collection represents a sampling of artifacts from the rich and varied World's Fair Collection at the Architecture Library, University of Maryland (UM). "
  
  
• Bei Flickr gibt es einen Weltausstellungspool:
  http://flickr.com/groups/worldsfairs/pool/
  
  
• Eine Bibliographie zum Thema findet sich hier:
  http://www.tu-cottbus.de/BTU/Fak2/TheoArch/Wolke/eng/Bibliography/ExpoBibliography.htm
  oder auch hier:
  http://www.sil.si.edu/silpublications/worlds-fairs/bibliography.cfm
  

Stand der Digital Humanities

Via diapsalmata bin ich auf Lisa Spiros "Digital Scholarship in the Humanities"-Blog gestossen und habe dort einen spannenden Artikel über den aktuellen Stand der Digital Humanities gefunden:
http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/digital-humanities-in-2008-part-i/
Mit vielen Links zu Projekten und Texten.

Robert Darnton über Googe & the Future of books

Noch besser als Darntons Artikel, den man hier findet:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281
finde ich die Sarah Werners Gedanken zu Dartons Artikel im Wynken-de-Worde Blog:
http://wynkendeworde.blogspot.com/2009/02/navigating-information-landscape.html

Tolles Spielzeug

http://www.wordle.net/

SeeAlso

Ich bin gerade im infobib-blog auf den Link zu diesem Artikel
http://bibhann.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/seealso-und-librarything-bringen-buchcover-in-hannovers-bibliothekskataloge/
gestossen und ganz schön ins Nachdenken gekommen.
Gibt es Studien darüber, was das den Bibliotheken bringt.
Ich hab irgendwie nur brav recherchierende Studis vor Augen, die dann kurz vor dem "Ziel" (wenn wir das Ausleihen/Lesen eines Buchs mal als solches bezeichnen wollen), den passenden wikipedia-Artikel quasi auf dem Tablett serviert bekommen.

Aber vielleicht bin ich da etwas altmodisch.

LiberLey online

http://www.liberley.it/

Für die einen ist es eine Wiederkehr, für mich ist es neu. Wie auch immer, schön dass es diese Seite gibt, die sich der Sammlung von "Links zu Online-Texten der deutschen und ins Deutsche übersetzten Literatur" verschrieben hat.

Visualizing Culture

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html

"Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto largely inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world. Units in development extend to early-modern and modern China. The thrust of these explorations extends beyond Asia per se, however, to address "culture" in much broader ways—cultures of modernization, war and peace, consumerism, images of "Self" and "Others," and so on.

Images of every sort are introduced and examined here—in partnership with contributing institutions and collections, and with the collaboration of experts devoted to transcending the printed word and hard-bound text"

New in Google Earth 5.0: Historical Imagery

"With the newest version of Google Earth we aim to fix this limitation by providing you with the ability to "go back in time" and observe changes to the landscape of our planet."
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-in-google-earth-50-historical.html

Academic Earth

http://www.academicearth.org/subjects/
"Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning. We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment that in which that content is remarkably easy to use and in which user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable. We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone."

In diesem Buch genannte Orte

Hab ich das bisher immer übersehen, oder ist neu, dass google-books auch gleich die im Buch genannten Orte anzeigt.
Zum Beispiel hier:
http://books.google.com/books?id=aoju8RjxkHMC&hl=de
Funktioniert aber offenbar nur bei manchen englischsprachigen Büchern.

Mix a folksong

Für mich das Highlight des Tages:

http://tenement.org/folksongs/

"Folk Songs for the Five Points is a celebration of cultural diversity and change, using “folk songs” as a metaphor to explore immigration and the formation of identity in New York’s Lower East Side.

The project isn’t about absolute answers or clear definitions. We are celebrating the unexpected richness that confronts you at every turn – from the many languages of Canal St to the endless complexity contained in words like “immigrant” and “folk song”.

Hover over the dots to find out more about the Lower East Side and the ideas behind the Folk Songs Project."

Online-Spiele

Da will man gleich wieder klein sein.
Oder selbst mal an so einem Projekt mitarbeiten.

The great fire of London
http://www.fireoflondon.org.uk/
Online Spiel, in desse Mittelpunkt "the great fire of London" von 1666 steht.

From Ellis Island to Orchard Street with Victoria Confino
http://www.tenement.org/immigrate/
"From Ellis Island to Orchard Street with Victoria Confino is an online game that transports players back to 1916 to experience life as a new immigrant in New York City.

The game allows you to create an immigrant character and passport, sail across the Atlantic, go through inspection at Ellis Island, and finally to build a life as a new immigrant in New York City. Along the way, players can get insights and information from Victoria Confino, a girl who immigrated in 1913 and lives in a tenement on New York’s Lower East Side. From Ellis Island to Orchard Street includes period photos and primary source documents that illuminate the great wave of immigration to America."

was man mit google maps alles machen kann.

Das finde ich sehr faszinierend:
http://www.swisstrains.ch/

Smithsonian Photography Initiative

Call for Entries
Smithsonian Photography Initiative Invites Visitor Contributions The Smithsonian Photography Initiative (SPI) invites you to contribute images and stories to click! photography changes everything, an online exhibit that explores how photography influences every aspect of our lives.

Nette Idee, mehr dazu gibt's hier:
http://click.si.edu/Connect.aspx

Die Ausstellung hier:
http://click.si.edu/Default.aspx

National Protrait Gallery

Ein sehr nettes Angebot, was die britische National Portrait Gallery da im Netz hat.
Für alle auf der Suche nach Portraits berühmter Briten.

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections.php