- If you are in Washington, D.C. next week, you may want to check out musician Ian MacKaye's talk at the Library of Congress on personal digital archiving and the need to educate creators and users to steward our digital cultural heritage. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA]
- The realistic birds made from paper and watercolor paint by Johan Scherft are wonderful; perhaps if he were alive today ornithologist and painter, John James Audubon, would certainly have appreciated them. [via Colossal]
- With hundreds of film rolls in the Smithsonian Productions collections, "The Unseen Seen" project by Austrian photographer Reiner Riedler in which he takes images of film rolls is really facinating. [via PetaPixel]
- In New York, the gatherings of archivists and their exciting collections are exposed. [via The New York Times]
- Smithsonian magazine has a trifecta of wonderful things to share: "How Do You Scan a 3-D dinosaur?"; "Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism"; and "We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now." [via Smithsonian magazine]
- Back to where it all began, CERN is recreating the first website. [via Andrew Whitesell, SIA]