10 Fun Ways to Feed Your Mind this Summer | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org.
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Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum recently emerged triumphant from a decade-long renovation project. In addition to the extensive on-site overhaul that transformed the 125-year-old institution into an LED-lit, chronologically arranged journey through art history IRL, the reopening also marked the debut of the Rijksstudio, an incredible online resource that allows virtual visitors to explore hi-res versions of a staggering 125,000 works.
The Rijksstudio has a cool discovery tool called Master Matcher. You answer 5 questions which match you with items from the archive of 125.000 masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum.
Are we on the verge of a third industrial revolution? The editors at The Economist certainly think so. But while rapid prototyping and the open source movement have been around for decades now, we had yet to see anyone take a truly comprehensive look at the transformation in manufacturing. That is, until the New Museum’s latest show, Adhocracy, came along.
Adhocracy is, in the word of its curator, Domus editor Joseph Grima, “an exhibition about people who make things.”
The objects vary, but the ethos stays the same: making is no longer the purview of companies which manufacture millions of the same object. It’s the right of individuals, who are manufacturing one or two objects to fit their own unique needs, then passing along their code.
See the full article at Gizmodo: 8 Objects That Signal a New Industrial Revolution.
Unfold’s “Stratigraphic Manufactury”
The article is an interview with the author who challenges our obsession with digital culture.
“Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13. A digital visionary says the Web kills jobs, wealth — even democracy.”
“His book continues his war on digital utopianism and his assertion of humanist and individualistic values in a hive-mind world. But Lanier still sees potential in digital technology: He just wants it reoriented away from its main role so far, which involves “spying” on citizens, creating a winner-take-all society, eroding professions and, in exchange, throwing bonbons to the crowd.”
via Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class – Salon.com.
“He originally bought most of the books he read, and the attic is still filled with boxes of old books, however for the past 15-20 years he’s mostly loaned the books from the library. My Dad loved our local library, the James V Brown Library, where all of the librarians knew his name, and he would leave there with a bag full of books about once a week. For the past year or two, he’d also tried reading ebooks on a Tablet I bought for him for Christmas, and while he loved downloading all of the free indie Kindle books he could get his hands on, he still preferred a good hardcover book.” See full article here: Brandon Zarzyczny: My Dad And His 10,496 Book Reviews | Huffington Post Books.
What a great story! I too keep track of the books I have read within both a database called Bookpedia (print) and Calibre (digital) on my Mac (now I’m thinking I should combine them into one). Not with as much detailed information as Mr. Craig Zarzyczny though! I also used to post reviews to GoodReads, LibraryThing and ChaptersIndigo Community. Reviewing was taking the enjoyment out of reading, so I slowed down around 2 years ago.
On April 13, 2013 the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) was launched, an initiative that brings together digitized sources from a number of cultural institutions in the United States. In November 2012 the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) started which combines the digital collections of over 2,000 institutions in Germany. The DDB is still in its beta-version. A Wealth of Knowledge is the motto of the DPLA. In this post I will try to make a comparison between the new American and German national digital libraries.
via Digital wealth: comparing national digital libraries | Rechtsgeschiedenis Blog
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Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition | The Atlantic
The conflict between career ambition and relationships lies at the heart of many of our current cultural debates…Ambition drives people forward; relationships and community, by imposing limits, hold people back. Which is more important?
WorldAffairs 2013 Keynote: Chris Anderson – The Maker Revolution | Stephen’s Lighthouse
Insightful keynote and Q&A discussing topics including industrial revolutions, manufacturing, machine power and brainpower. Desktop, digital and cloud = the third industrial revolution. Also some great anecdotes and stories on creating “things,” intellectual property, uses for drones, education and digital design, and more.
“Anything you can imagine you can make real.” – Chris Anderson
“After two and a half years of planning, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), the U.S.’s first public online-only library, opened its doors today — or at least was made publicly available on the Internet.
The DPLA is a free, open-source resource that makes a number of digital collections and archives across the country available in one place. It launched as a series of partnerships with the Smithsonian, the National Archives, New York Public Library, the University of Virginia, Harvard, Digital Library of Georgia, Minnesota Digital Library, Mountain West Digital Library and others. All of the text, photos, videos and audio contained in the DPLA can be searched, or browsed by place or time on the DPLA website” via Digital Public Library Of America (DPLA) Launches To Public | Mashable.
Vision of the DPLA Website:
The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s. Efforts led by a range of organizations, including the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive, have successfully built resources that provide books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with Internet access. Many universities, public libraries, and other public-spirited organizations have digitized materials, but these digital collections often exist in silos. The DPLA brings these different viewpoints, experiences, and collections together in a single platform and portal, providing open and coherent access to our society’s digitized cultural heritage.
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What is the DPLA? by John Palfrey | The Digital Shift
Quotable: “There are two key points about what the DPLA “is,” at least as of April 2013. First, the DPLA will be what we, the people, decide to make of it, as a shared, public-spirited resource. Second, the DPLA is the community of people who have devoted themselves (ourselves, in fact) to pursuing an ambitious, public-spirited vision of what the future might hold. On day one, we will present a radically open platform that will make a lot of exciting material available more broadly, as well as a lot of code and services with which technologists can do interesting things.”
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