#OTD in 1973, the Senate Watergate hearings began, marking one of the most infamous events in American political history and reshaping public trust in government and media. Relive this pivotal moment in history by exploring the complete "gavel to gavel" coverage with the AAPB’s The Watergate Hearings Collection: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-6688g8g717
An amazing write-up by a passionate preservationist, Chris Person (@Papapishu on Twitter), on why YOU are the only one that can save media you love. 💿 📀 📽️ 📹 :hd_dvd_spin: :blobfoxcomputer:
#ServantsOfKnowledge is now digitising Chennaveera Kanavi’s works. 2 of his sons, Karun Kanavi & Chiranjeevi Kanavi visited our facility at Gandhi Bhavan to handover the first set of books. #Kannada#Digitization (1/3)
Next week, join GBH Archives as they demonstrate FIX-IT+, an open-source, web-based tool for transcript correction. The AAPB and the wider public media community have used FIX-IT+ to correct 2,000+ transcripts of public television programs spanning the last 50 years.
Join us in recognizing the start of #Ramadan, a sacred month of prayer, reflection, and community, observed by Muslims around the globe.
Back in 2000, WQED Pittsburgh offered a glimpse into the Hassan family's journey through Ramadan, while featuring insights from Kadir Gunduz, Director of the Islamic Center of Oakland.
The AAPB is proud to announce a new exhibit honoring Black history!
"The Odyssey of Black Studies in Public Broadcasting" explores the history of Black Studies programs at American colleges and universities as they were discussed and presented in a select number of public radio and TV broadcasts archived in the AAPB collection: https://americanarchive.org/exhibits/odyssey-of-black-studies-in-public-broadcasting
With all of this talk of the DunKings, it's time we threw it back to another Dunkin' beloved classic: Fred the Baker and his iconic "Time to make the donuts!" catchphrase. 🍩✨
Back in 1997, when Michael Vale retired from portraying this beloved Dunkin' character, it made headlines on the New Jersey Network nightly news!
And this happens when fingers that were used to hold down a book's page to be scanned were captured, and a software "repairs" this space automatically afterwards. In short: the scanned image is corrected by filling the problematic space with new content. In this case, this filling didn't fit too well: you see a "en="text part from a different print, and some very bad pixel space. Welcome to the compley digital narrative of old printed books.
Is it a ghost? Is it a cloud? No, it is just a weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person.
The human touch of #digitization. Here is another charming example of a person's hand doing a scanning job. If you work with #earlymodern books, you'll find these hands quite often. Here, a German Messrelation of 1697 was scanned in Munich (and, Alas!, the touched printed map was forgotten).
Ubbo Emmius was the first rector magnificus of the University of Groningen.
In 1572, as a student in Rostock, Germany, he bought this booklet containing letters of Roman author Cicero.
The book contains quotes, drawings, comments in the margins next to the printed text, written in Ubbo’s tiny, almost illegible handwriting.
Read the full story and browse through the digitized version of the book.
Happy birthday to the legendary actor, James Earl Jones! 🎉
Before commanding the screen as the iconic voice of Darth Vader, Jones delighted audiences as villain Long John Spoilsport on PBS's children's show, Vegetable Soup in 1975!