Do you have any experience working with art gallery-specific database systems? I'd love some advice on choosing the right software to help organize a mid-career artist and his sprawling archive.
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posted by Chichibio
on Dec 9, 2010 -
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Deep Searching Old Comics for Research in the Humanities: How does one search old comic books for something that may amount to set-dressing? I'm looking for depictions of public housing projects in U.S. comics from 1950 – 1980. What tools or approaches can you recommend?
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posted by jjjjjjjijjjjjjj
on Dec 6, 2010 -
23 answers
To archive some work in a class I'm teaching, I would like to record a series of video clips, burning each student's clips to their own rewriteable DVD as we go. Then, on the last day of class, I'd like to quickly finalize a DVD for each person that constains only that person's clips.
What device do I want?
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posted by pseudostrabismus
on Nov 18, 2010 -
2 answers
Is there software that lets me move around an ipad/iphone/android in 3D space and see the world through a huge collection of old photo? Think
Microsoft Photosynth displayed on an ipad with accelerometer data to change the picture. (I've got the photo collection; I just need to find a program/device that will let me display it.)
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posted by cmchap
on Oct 27, 2010 -
1 answer
How do I export Outlook .pst mail archives to a text format for backup purposes?
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posted by snarfois
on Oct 17, 2010 -
7 answers
Looking for the best solution for cataloging my vinyl collection - is collectorz.com's Music Collector my best bet, or is there something more customizable and/or tailored to vinyl collectors?
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posted by Banky_Edwards
on Sep 24, 2010 -
5 answers
I want to find tweets going back over a month with a certain #tag (from different twitters), but "older tweets are not currently available" and it's only showing a couple of days worth at most.
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posted by lemonfridge
on Aug 27, 2010 -
3 answers
I have a bunch of pieces of art that I'm not displaying, but I'm not sure how I should be storing them. What's the best way to protect and preserve them (preferably without spending a zillion dollars)?
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Aug 17, 2010 -
6 answers
Is there unZIPping/unRARing software for the Mac that allows you to see what's inside of an archive file without extraction? Seems like double-clicking on archives with any software I've used immediately extracts the files within. I'd like to be able to preview those files first, and perhaps selectively extract, or not extract at all.
posted by shivohum
on Aug 10, 2010 -
5 answers
Where can I find an old US government document? I found a reference to it in the
June 1912 Monthly Catalogue of United States Public Documents:
Sabath, A. J.
Report amending by substitute H. 23284, to authorize Great Northern Development Company to construct dam across Missisippi River from Scott Countv, Iowa, to Rock Island Countv, 111. June 14, 1912. 3 p. (H. rp. 891.)
posted by clockworkjoe
on Jul 1, 2010 -
10 answers
I have a large amount of family letters, photos, and documents dating from the late 1800s to the 2000s, with most ranging from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some are in fair condition, and I'd like preserve them for future generations. Most are in English, but there's a smattering of Hebrew and French, neither of which I can read. My questions inside.
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posted by scottso17
on Jun 17, 2010 -
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I’d like to archive in a single web-based location my email messages from several separate web-based accounts. What are my options?
posted by Dragonness
on Jun 16, 2010 -
8 answers
The thing about the digital photography era is I no longer have hard copies of every single picture I take. This worries me. I'd like physical backups of the best of the billion or so pictures I've taken in the last five years. Is there a great and economical way to print several thousand DIFFERENT digital photos? Some online service? Some wonderful workflow?
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posted by saltykmurks
on Jun 14, 2010 -
22 answers
I'm trying to brainstorm real or fictional examples of some government or person in power trying to change or hide historical information by erasing, changing, or withholding items from a library or archive.
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posted by GPF
on Jun 2, 2010 -
41 answers
I want to properly archive a large collection of T-shirts. What's the best way to store these, considering that the most important part is the print, which is made of Plastisol, a PVC-based ink?
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posted by Devils Rancher
on May 27, 2010 -
6 answers
I just found out that I have a very serious disease. I may have only a couple of years left, probably no more than five. I have two very young kids. How do I archive stuff on the Web so I know they'll have access to it, whenever they want, for at least the next 40 years?
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posted by 0BloodyHell
on May 25, 2010 -
25 answers
Why doesn't the compress feature on my Mac actually compress the files? It creates a .zip file but it's usually only a couple hundred k smaller than the original.
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posted by amanda
on May 10, 2010 -
17 answers
Do you know some sort of online database of books where you can make a profile and compile a list of what you've read? (more explanation)
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posted by CelebrenIthil
on Apr 21, 2010 -
11 answers
I'm making an archival database (in Excel) with about 10,000 rows and 6-7 columns for each row. I'm doing this so the information will be easy to cross-reference and search. I've never done anything like this before and am looking for books, blogs, etc. for tips, suggestions, and anything that will make my life and this project easier.
posted by melodykramer
on Mar 29, 2010 -
16 answers
Can you recommend a website that is useful for storing oral history recordings?
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posted by ikahime
on Mar 13, 2010 -
3 answers
Where online can I find masterful montages for design reference and inspiration?
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posted by rahnefan
on Mar 9, 2010 -
6 answers
My grandmother's first language is nearly extinct. I'd like to record an interview with her for archival purposes; how should I go about it?
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posted by decagon
on Feb 26, 2010 -
22 answers
I need to find a tutorial that will easily - stress EASILY - explain to the viewer or reader how to get all the wonderful goodness out of a .ZIP file, but without instructing them to download third party software (winzip, winrar...)
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posted by sandra_s
on Feb 24, 2010 -
7 answers
Deciding on a CMS for a university research project website: Wordpress, Joomla, or Drupal?
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posted by oulipian
on Feb 3, 2010 -
14 answers
Final Cut Express Archiving: What do you keep from your film editing projects, in what formats, and why? What should we keep?
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posted by sdis
on Jan 23, 2010 -
10 answers
How do I automate dumping the contents of a couple hundred different data CDs into a directory in Mac OS X?
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posted by ardgedee
on Jan 11, 2010 -
5 answers
My Outlook deleted file is 17,000 messages. It runs off of a windows server for our organization
I understand that is not the best idea. But i find that i return to even deleted messages with great frequency.
What would be the best way to archive those messages so i can easily search them while improving the performance of outlook?
posted by dougiedd
on Dec 22, 2009 -
17 answers
What's a good system for a non-profit to set-up and manage a digital archive of somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 text, pictures, sound and video items? It needs to be accessible by multiple people at the same time and be easily searchable.
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posted by Magnakai
on Dec 2, 2009 -
8 answers
Can you help me find the Ordnance Survey desktop wallpaper for May 2009, please? Preferably 1024x768 size but
anything very gratefully accepted.
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posted by vogel
on Sep 3, 2009 -
3 answers
Is there a smarter
tar or
cpio out there, or a smarter way to archive, to efficiently retrieve a file stored in the archive?
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posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Aug 27, 2009 -
20 answers
What's the best way to search distant local newspaper archives for information on a crime that occurred almost 30 years ago in Birmingham, Alabama?
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posted by Doug
on Jun 23, 2009 -
6 answers
My dad has many thousands of photos in 35mm slide and print form (the output of 40 years as a photography hobbyist). He's looking for an archival-quality photo scanner that can handle both formats, as well as provide some degree of bulk-load automation. What should he get?
posted by killdevil
on Apr 16, 2009 -
14 answers
Recommendations for free private digital accommodations for a retired band's media?
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posted by bodega
on Mar 14, 2009 -
8 answers
What are your favorite places to find archived news footage and imagery online for free? Looking to put together a list of sites for communications studies students to help them approximate the functionality of the
Vanderbilt Television News Archive without spending hours hunting on YouTube for media to critique.
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posted by activitystory
on Mar 13, 2009 -
1 answer
About a year ago, I accidentally archived a ton of old emails in my Gmail account, without putting any labels on any of them. (I
thought I knew how archiving worked at the time, but obviously I was wrong)
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posted by hasna
on Mar 12, 2009 -
10 answers
I want to find an image that was once posted on 4chan (/b/). Am I out of luck? (Some NSFW details within).
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 8, 2009 -
8 answers
My old website still gets a lot of hits. But many of the outbound links I posted years back are no longer valid, are dead or have changed location. Is there any way to integrate the
Wayback Machine Internet Archive into my site's code so that links are redirected to the archive for the date they were originally posted?
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posted by bollockovnikov
on Mar 6, 2009 -
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