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Dear ARLISERS, Just a note to announce that the Medici Archive Project in Florence has launched its interactive archive, BIA. From the site: > The Medici Granducal Archival Collection (Mediceo del Principato)--among > the most exhaustive and complete court archives of early modern Europe--is > one of the most frequently consulted collections at the Archivio di Stato > di Firenze. Over the past fifteen years, the Medici Archive Project has > been using computing technologies to facilitate scholarly research on this > collection. With BIA’s launch, the Medici Archive Project will double its > online text content and it will inaugurate a new digital imaging function > by putting online 120,000 digitized documents—a number that will continue > to grow. Additionally, BIA will enable community sourcing with new > applications for online manuscript transcription and its online forums for > scholarly discussion. Scholars anywhere in the world will now transcribe, > edit, and comment on archival material in the database, collaborating in > real time and making use of the forums to share expertise and knowledge. > The Project home page, with access to the Archive, is at:http://www.medici.org/ My interview with Lisa Kaborycha, Director of Academic Affairs of the Project, can be found here: http://library-cafe.blogspot.com/2012/11/lisa-kaborycha_13.html Do pass this on to your Renaissance/Early Modernist colleagues. Happy Holidays, Tom -- Thomas E. Hill Art Librarian, Vassar College [log in to unmask] 845.437.5791 http://artlibrary.vassar.edu http://library-cafe.org VC Art Library on Facebook: http://facebook.com/VassarArtLibrary T. Hill Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ThomasEHill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~