A new website targeted at travelers can have some great applications for historians as well. Arounder lets you pick a building or site and view it in the round. It works with Google Maps to help you find a site (or you can choose from a list of highlights and virtual tours) – double-click on…
ARTstor has created a new feature that allows users to save details to image groups. This new icon (save to image group) is located at the lower right of the Image Viewer and will save the image (in whatever zoomed and/or rotated position you are viewing it) to either a new or an existing image…
Last week we got a demonstration of The Wall at the CalIT2 center at UC San Diego by Professor Lev Manovich and post-doctoral student Jeremy Douglass. As stated on their website, they believe that “a systematic use of large-scale computational analysis and interactive visualization of cultural data sets and data streams will become a major…
Accessceramics.org is a collaborative database project which allows users to contribute images of contemporary ceramics for educational purposes. It was started by Ted Vogel and Margo Ballantyne at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, and it uses Flickr image software to upload, organize and display the images. It can be browsed by artist name, media,…
Make it Digital: This new site, provided by the New Zealand government, includes loads of helpful hints and answers to difficult questions about how to digitize (technically, legally, aesthetically).
Cooliris is a plug-in for your browser which displays images in a wonderful “3D Wall” effect – you can browse your own image folders, or online image searches (google, flickr, etc.). There’s a great explanation of it here: http://aahvrc.blogspot.com/search?q=cooliris