A few years ago we posted on an online tool called Thinglink, which facilitates the annotation of online images. It’s got great potential for study pages and student projects so we thought it was worth re-visiting with these examples. Instructors and students can get free accounts. In addition to adding text annotations, you can add…
The Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources (OHR) has partnered with the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) to create and launch HistoricPlacesLA: Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory, the “first online information and management system specifically created to help inventory, map, describe, and protect Los Angeles’ significant cultural resources.” HistoricPlacesLA is published through Arches, a open-source geospatial…
The Endangered Archives Programme, hosted by the British Library and funded by Arcadia, is celebrating its 10th anniversary as a contributor to the preservation of archival material that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration world-wide. The Programme depends entirely upon researchers, archivists and librarians with an interest in a specific subject, region or…
The College Art Association (CAA) has published the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, a set of principles addressing best practices in the fair use of copyrighted materials based on a consensus of opinion developed through discussions with visual-arts and legal professionals. Initiated by CAA in 2012, it will be…
If you’ve never seen a murmuration of starlings (and probably few of us have) these photos in the LA Times will make you gasp. A murmuration is the mass movement of an entire flock. The photos are like a series of very temporary sculptures.
Zeno.org, another source for research and images, is a German language site with a scope similar to Open Library and Project Gutenberg but also includes over 40,000 works of art in sizes suitable for teaching presentations. The site is organized by subject matter and ebooks, or you can search names and keywords for images and…