Gustav Doré illustrations

A selection of images by Gustave Doré from Xavier Saintine's La Mythologie du Rhin et les contes de la mère-grand' (1863)

Impermanence

The Planets Time Capsule: "is a metal box that contains at risk digital objects: a JPEG photograph, a message in Java source code, a short film in .MOV format, a web-page in HTML and a brochure in PDF.

Each object is stored in its original format and a new format more suitable for long-term preservation such as PDF/A, TIFF, JPEG2000 and MPEG4. The objects are stored on media that range from paper, microfilm and floppy discs to CDs, DVDs and flash-drives and HDDs.

Inside the box are the original and new objects, storage media, and some reading devices. It also includes conversion tools that were used to migrate the objects as well as software to open and view/use these objects and supporting software all the way down to an operating system; descriptions of the file formats, of the file systems and encodings used on the storage media; and description of all these objects and their relationship to supporting technology and recognised standards."

SPARROW

Sound & Picture ARchives for Research On Women: "A trust set up in 1988 in Mumbai to build a national archives for women with print, oral history and pictorial material."

Zebra Finch Songs

Williams, H. (1997) Zebra Finch Song Archive: "The birds whose songs are available on this archive trace their ancestry to a single pair."

L'Alcoolisme

Alcohol: is bad for society (is that a flaming dildo in his left hand?), rabbits, human brains and feet.

NZ Architecture

University of Auckland Architecture Archive: "The image collection features a selection of drawings, plans, elevations and photographs from the University of Auckland's collection. The archive's holdings range from the nineteenth century to the present with strengths in the Auckland region and the modern movement."

Letters from Stan

The Stan Laurel Correspondence Archive Project: "hopes to collect and catalog as many of Stan's letters as is possible".

Free Info Society

J. Robert Oppenheimer: I Am Become Death: Just one of thousands of media files available.