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English Corner

"From 1939 to 1953, nearly one million people were deported to the Gulag from the European territories annexed by the USSR at the start of the Second World War and those that came under Soviet influence after the War: some to work camps but most as forced settlers in villages in Siberia and Central Asia.

An international team of researchers has collected 160 statements from former deportees, photographs of their lives, documents from private and public archives and films. Many of these witnesses had never spoken out before.

In these statements and these documents, the Museum invites you to explore a neglected chapter of the history of Europe."
Link: https://museum.gulagmemories.eu/en/home/homepage

Westchester Archives from Westchester County Government on Vimeo.


https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/70925.htm

"The release of these documents on the NATO Archives website marks the first time that declassified and publicly disclosed NATO files will be presented on the Internet for consultation and download."

Via
https://geschichtsweberei.blogspot.com/2011/06/nato-archives-release-declassified-cold.html

https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cwd/transcripts.html

Via
https://bit.ly/lNwOk4 = press-citizen.com

Enhancing Open Access to Grey Literature: On the Launch of the OpenGrey Repository
https://www.opengrey.eu/

Today marks the launch of the OpenGrey Repository. OpenGrey succeeds
OpenSIGLE, which was an initiative by INIST-CNRS to transfer the contents of
a commercial database into an open access environment - including the
results of 25 years of collecting and referencing grey literature by
European partners. Since 2008, GreyNet's conference preprints complement the
offer on grey literature in OpenGrey by providing full-text access to
research output in this field of information science,
https://www.opengrey.eu/search/request?q=greynet

A new blog created by the Rare Books Collections of the Department of Special Collections of the University of St Andrews: https://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/

"Echoes from the Vault explores discoveries made through current retro-cataloguing efforts, announces any news or events from the Special Collections and will highlight some of the treasures from our long history of collecting. It has also been published in part to fill the need to reach out to our current and potential users as the department has been relocated to a temporary, smaller facility during a phase of refurbishment." (Archives-L)

Colin Steele in liblicense-l:

ANU E Press publishes between 50-60 titles
a year, all of its eBooks are available free through its website
and the reader may choose to purchase a Print-On-Demand version
of the book. ANU has over 3 million eBook downloads a year. The
ANU E Press website is at: https://epress.anu.edu.au'

The current top ten is, in terms of downloading. It's been
interesting for the E Press to note the varied geographical
spread of downloads for each title.

ANU E Press Top 10 most popular eBooks in 2010

1.Ethics and Auditing - 93, 627

2.The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon - 77, 400

3.Aboriginal Placenames - 64, 964

4.Aboriginal History 33 - 59, 322

5.Myanmar-the state, community and the environment - 54, 769

6.China: Next Twenty Years of Reform and Development - 49, 105

7.Islamising Indonesia - 43, 502

8.TA 28 - New Directions in Archaeological Science - 41, 676

9.Anomie and Violence - 40, 245

10.Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar - 39, 044

This is not the time to re-engage with Stevan Harnad on OA
monographs, but there is a growing OA monograph trend which the
Australian E Presses continue to promulgate. Given the limited
distribution globally of a print academic monograph, often quoted
sales of 200-300 copies with 200 remainder, then e-OA versions
have an ability (with POD as required) to disseminate scholarly
knowledge much more widely than is currently the case,
particularly where trade "university publishers" increasingly
have to eschew academic content.

This week, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously
passed a resolution addressing the issue of controversial content on
the projects. The Board also unanimously passed a resolution
addressing images of identifiable, living people on the projects. The
resolutions are posted at:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Controversial_content
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Images_of_identifiable_people


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China: More archives opened to the public

https://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7397321.html

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https://www.tiltfactor.org/metadata-games

There’s no shortage of fabulous archival material lurking in college and university collections. The trick is finding it.

Without good metadata—labels that tell researchers and search engines what’s in a photograph, say—those archives are as good as closed to many students and scholars. But many institutions don’t have the resources or manpower to tag their archives thoroughly.

Enter Metadata Games, an experiment in harnessing the power of the crowd to create archival metadata. A team of designers at Dartmouth College, working with archivists there, has created game interfaces that invite players to tag images, either playing alone or with a partner (sometimes a human, sometimes a computer). Solo players think up tags to describe the images they see; in the two-player scenario, partners try to come up with the same tag or tags.
Read more at
https://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/gaming-the-archives/31435

See also

https://metadatagames.dartmouth.edu/mg/arcade/

https://thedartmouth.com/2011/05/25/news/metadata

https://archiv.twoday.net/stories/4568398/

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