Michael Pera

Your awesome Tagline

22 notes

And they say Archivists don’t have a sense of Humor

awesomearchives:

This just came in through the archives listserv, and I thought it was hilarious, so I’m passing it on.

Alternative Sorting Schemas For Special Collections and Archives


Everyone who works in archives is familiar with the traditional ways of organizing collections - namely chronological order and alphabetical order. But in the 21st century are these methods of classification really passé? Do they really help researchers get a feel for and understanding of the collection?


Below are some alternative organizing schemas that might be more useful to archivists and helpful to researchers.

Read More

This is awesome

37 notes

The American Male at Age Ten

tetw:

By Susan Orlean

If Colin Duffy and I were to get married, we would have matching superhero notebooks. We would sleep in our clothes. We would both be good at Nintendo Street Fighter II, but Colin would be better than me. We would eat pizza and candy for all of our meals. We wouldn’t have sex, but we would have crushes on each other and, magically, babies would appear in our home.

0 notes

St. Louis Arch in the rain last night. My daughter loves the arch, and we often drive by it so she can get a good look

St. Louis Arch in the rain last night. My daughter loves the arch, and we often drive by it so she can get a good look

108 notes

preservearchives:

Video Short Documents 1297 Magna Carta Encasement Project
 

The National Archives is today releasing a short documentary video, “The Encasement of Magna Carta.”  The video is part of the ongoing series Inside the Vaults, and can be viewed at this link: http://tiny.cc/MAGNACARTA

The document will to return to public display on February 17, 2012.

Magna Carta is on loan to the National Archives from its owner, philanthropist and co-founder of the Carlyle Group, David M. Rubenstein.  Mr. Rubenstein underwrote the fabrication of its new encasement.  The encasement was designed by the National Archives in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where the encasement was fabricated.

Shudder to think of the expense. This is spectacular

(via awesomearchives)

3 notes

Post-Artifact Books and Publishing

verticalfiles:

This piece is mostly about digital publishing, which doesn’t interest me so much. But this line… yes!!

Take a set of encyclopedias and ask, “How do I make this digital?” You get a Microsoft Encarta CD. Take the philosophy of encyclopedia-making and ask, “How does digital change our engagement with this?” You get Wikipedia.

This applies so much to museums. The question is not how to replicate the museum experience online. It’s how to use new digital tools to redefine what the museum is and how people engage with exhibits and objects there (both in the physical museum space and online).

I read this on Instapaper on my phone so I totally missed how beautifully formatted and lovely the original article looks… sort of ironic, given the subject at hand.

One of the easiest mistakes in analog to digital - replicating the faults and failing to leverage the advantages of the new medium

(Source: )

0 notes

Nesting, of a sort

I believe I’m experiencing the male and geeky version of late pregnancy nesting: compulsively keeping all cameras, cell phones, etc charged and clear, and getting worried anywhere below 70%