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LibraryOfCongress uploaded a new video
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Irvin Ungar discusses Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk and his haggadah created in the stunning style of medieval illuminated manuscripts.
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Irvin Ungar discusses Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk and his haggadah created in the stunning style of medieval illuminated manuscripts.
Speaker Biography: Irvin Ungar is the foremost expert and leading dealer of the art of Arthur Szyk. A former pulpit rabbi fluent in Jewish history and tradition, Irvin is CEO of the firm Historicana and the tireless force behind the Szyk renaissance.
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LibraryOfCongress uploaded a new video
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The advent of personal computing devices such as PCs and smart phones with terabyte storage has enable the capture, recording and recall of everyth...
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The advent of personal computing devices such as PCs and smart phones with terabyte storage has enable the capture, recording and recall of everything a person reads, writes and hears. These are the new records and artifacts of the 21st century digital person.
Since 1998 Gordon Bell of Microsoft Research has worked on MyLifeBits, a system to digitally store everything in a person's life, including accumulated and current articles, books, correspondence, financial and legal records, memorabilia, photos, telephone calls, time-lapse photos, video and web pages. MyLifeBits is both an experiment in lifetime storage and a software research effort.
For archivists, exponentially increasing amounts of personal digital artifacts will soon arrive seeking immortality at the portals of museums and libraries, providing a new challenge to institutions accustomed to dealing with an analog person's boxes of papers and memorabilia of past millennia. Organizing, retrieving, preserving and protecting these fleeting, bit-based artifacts over the long-term is the contemporary archivist's greatest challenge.
Bell's talk touched on the project's history and discussed the research challenges and the wide-ranging social and personal benefits of the MyLifeBits technology, especially as it pertains to cultural memory institutions.
Speaker Biography: Gordon Bell spent 23 years (1960-1983) at Digital Equipment Corporation as Vice President of Research and Development, where he was responsible for Digital's products. He was the architect of various mini- and time-sharing computers (e.g. the PDP-6) and led the development of DEC's VAX and the VAX Computing Environment. Bell has been involved in, or responsible for, the design of many products at Digital, Encore, Ardent, and a score of other companies. He has been involved in the design of about 30 multiprocessors. He is a founding board member of The Computer History Museum at 1401 Shoreline, Mountain View, CA, established in 1999. The museum's world-class artifact collection came from the former Computer Museum, Boston that he co-founded, 1979 with Gwen Bell that originated in 1975 with the now deceased Digital Equipment Corporation that became part of HP in the lat2 1990s. He became a fellow of the Museum on 22 October 2003.
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LibraryOfCongress uploaded a new video
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This workshop covers the key concepts and technologies pertaining to moving image preservation and digitization in libraries, archives, and museums...
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This workshop covers the key concepts and technologies pertaining to moving image preservation and digitization in libraries, archives, and museums, including the typical elements in the preservation and digitization of moving images, how to assess their condition, and relevant technologies and best practices. An overview of the conservation research underway at the National Audio Visual Conservation Center will also be included.
Speaker Biography: James Snyder is a digital media engineering, production & project management specialist. His extensive experience includes television, film, radio, internet technologies and covers the gamut from traditional analog to cutting edge digital data, audio and video technologies. His career in both commercial and non-commercial sectors spans over 30 years. Mr. Snyder currently serves as the Senior Systems Administrator for the Library of Congress' National Audio-Visual Conservation Center located on the Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Virginia. He is responsible for all the audio, video and film preservation and digitization technologies, including long-term planning, technology services to the United States Congress and Capitol Hill, as well as standards participation and interaction with media content producers. He has worked for many of the top organizations in media, entertainment, engineering & communications including MCI, Verizon Business, Intelsat, PBS, Harris Corporation, the Advanced Television Test Center, Fox News, Communications Engineering Inc, Reuters and Discovery Communications. He has consulted on many types of projects for organizations including Sarnoff Corporation, Turner Engineering, CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, News Corporation, FedNet and agencies of the Federal Government. Mr. Snyder is a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Association of Motion Imaging Archivists (AMIA) and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). He is a member and serves as an officer & on standards committees of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE), and as the President of the Association of Washington Executive Broadcast Engineers (WEBE). He currently serves as the frequency coordinator for the National Capital Area, Baltimore and the State of Maryland. He lives and works in central Virginia adjacent to the Washington, DC metro area.
Speaker Biography: Michael Stelmach has twenty-five years of information management experience, with a concentration on providing digital access to content originating from print. Formerly the Vice President of eBook Production at netLibrary, he is currently the Manager of Digital Conversion Services in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress. Michael has been active in the research and development of an automated approach to evaluating digital image performance.
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LibraryOfCongress uploaded a new video
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Dr. Neil Gehrels discusses "Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes" as part of the Library's series in conjunction with NASA.
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Dr. Neil Gehrels discusses "Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes" as part of the Library's series in conjunction with NASA.
Speaker Biography: Neil Gehrels is chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and principal investigator for the SWIFT satellite mission.
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LibraryOfCongress uploaded a new video
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The McIntosh County Shouters perform Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout at a concert at the Library.
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The McIntosh County Shouters perform Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout at a concert at the Library.
Speaker Biography: The McIntosh County Shouters is a ten-member Gullah-Geechee group that began performing professionally in 1980. They have educated and entertained audiences around the United States with the "ring shout," a compelling fusion of counterclockwise dance-like movement, call-and-response singing, and percussion consisting of hand claps and a stick beating the rhythm on a wooden floor. African in its origins, the ring shout affirms oneness with the Spirit and ancestors as well as community cohesiveness. The ring shout was first described in detail during the Civil War by outside observers in coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia. Its practice continued well into the 20th Century, even as its influence was resounding in later forms like spiritual, jubilee, gospel and jazz. By the late 20th century, the ring shout itself was presumed to have died out until its rediscovery in McIntosh County in 1980; thus, the beginning of the McIntosh County Shouters. The group was awarded the NEA National Heritage Fellowship in 1993, and were selected as Producers of Distinction and Founding Members of the "Georgia Made Georgia Grown Program," in 2009. Their performances include the National Black Arts Festival, of Smithsonian Folklife Festival, World Music Institute, and Sound Legacies at Emory University. The group has been featured in magazines and documentaries, including HBO's Unchained Memories.
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