NEW RESOURCES

KYW Newsradio: Philly’s first-ever Social Impact Database is officially up and running. “This new digital resource highlights more than 100 social impact programs in the city, including areas in education, youth development, and mental health. … The database offers a searchable online directory of these programs and a report for ( Read more... )

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New-to-me: Run.Track.Run. Search for places to run all over the world. Indoor/outdoor, surface, cost, lighting, and minimum/maximum distance. You can also limit your results to only recommended places.

USEFUL STUFF

Peterbe: How I built an index of my blog posts on my GitHub profile page. “If you go to https://github.com/peterbe it ( Read more... )

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Yale School of Public Health: New Database Documents Sex Differences in Cancer Biology, Risk Factors, and Treatments. “A groundbreaking new database could lead to vast improvements in precision oncology by documenting sex-based differences in cancer treatment efficacy, biomarkers, risk factors, and microbial influences across 71 ( Read more... )

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The National (Scotland): New interactive map showcases publicly-owned land across Scotland. “Users can explore information on individual land parcels, including its ownership and size. The information has been brought together as a searchable map for the first time and, as well as information on the Crown Estate, it also includes the ( Read more... )

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Irish Farmers Journal: Butter Museum to tackle food information deficit. “The Butter Museum has developed a range of resources for outreach and education which combine the old and the new … These resources include: - Schools’ activity worksheets designed by a primary school teacher.- 3D animations of collection items. -Digital ( Read more... )

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The Violin Channel: Austrian Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Archive Launched Online. “The Nikolaus Harnoncourt Center (NHZ), which is based at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria, has recently launched an online archive covering all seven decades of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s life. Harnoncourt’s family opted to donate ( Read more... )

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Illinois State University: Milner Library launches P.T. Barnum digital collection. “Milner Library is proud to announce the publication of the P.T. Barnum Letters and Ephemera, a digital collection drawn from Special Collections’ world-class circus holdings. This assemblage of 136 documents relating to Barnum and his many business ( Read more... )

TWEAKS AND UPDATES

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Search Having Indexing Issues Again. “Google Search is once again having indexing issues where new content is not showing in the index for all sites. Google wrote this is about a ‘delayed indexing in Google Search’ that is ‘affecting a small number of sites.'”

ZDNet: OpenAI’s Sora AI video ( Read more... )

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University of Exeter: Pioneering legal toolkit is helping cultural institutions around the world to share their collections online . “Staff at more than 24 institutions around the world have worked with the GLAM-E Lab to develop the Open GLAM Toolkit. Produced by legal experts from the University of Exeter and New York University’s ( Read more... )

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New-to-me, from CBC: Digital archive of old Ontario newspapers a hit with readers as far away as New Zealand. “Officials with Stratford-Perth Archives say their new historical newspaper database has proved popular with the public, recording more than 53,000 visits in the nearly three months it’s been online. The archive launched in ( Read more... )