Detail, "Map showing the most direct commercial route from the Atlantic via Lake Ontario, to the province of Upper Canada, the north western states & territories, and to the Mississippi," Geography and Map Division, @librarycongress.bsky.social Seen at life size in Booksnake: booksnake.app

Fantastic to see this student work! #NEH funding does great things.

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We're using the restored NEH funding to build support for viewing multiple virtual objects at once, and to build connections to more archives. See this update on multiple object support from earlier this year: bsky.app/profile/book...

Please join us at 9am KST for "Size Matters: Extracting Dimensional Metadata from Cultural Heritage Digitization Targets," in person in Daejeon (rm 209-211) or online at #DH2026! We'll present Autosizer, a new pair of text/image models for calculating physical dimensions from existing catalog data.

IT'S BACK! Booksnake's NEH grant was restored today. Thanks to @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social for winning the ruling that the Trump Admin's mass termination of NEH grants was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect."

To the moooon! Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon #OTD in 1969. "USAF Lunar Reference Mosaic: LEM-1," US Air Force, 1966. Geography & Maps Div., @librarycongress.bsky.social Shown at life size in Booksnake, a free app for exploring digitized history in the real world: booksnake.app

Thinking of growing your own lettuce? "A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls" by Albert Bigelow Paine (1905) has you covered. Select Digitized Books, @librarycongress.bsky.social Shown at life size in Booksnake, a free app for exploring digitized history in the real world: booksnake.app

Happy birthday, Henry David Thoreau! "Thoreau's Walden," New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. @librarycongress.bsky.social. Shown at life size in Booksnake, a free app for exploring digitized history in the real world: booksnake.app

Hot off the press! Most Americans first met the words of the Declaration of Independence in newspapers like this one: The Pennsylvania Evening Post, July 6, 1776, was the Declaration's first newspaper printing. Chronicling America, @librarycongress.bsky.social Life size in Booksnake: booksnake.app

Pride is rebellion! Raids like this were routine in mid-century America. But homophile activists were already building the movement Stonewall would ignite in 1969. Evening Star (Wash DC), Oct. 3 1955, Chronicling America, @librarycongress.bsky.social At life size in Booksnake: booksnake.app

FREEDOM. The Emancipation Proclamation was national news in January 1863, but its promise of freedom wouldn't reach enslaved people in Texas until June 19, 1865. The Smoky Hill and Republican Union, p2, 1/10/1863. Chronicling America, @librarycongress.bsky.social. See at life size: booksnake.app

Happy Flag Day! During the Civil War, the flag was carried into battle by Union soldiers + into American parlors by sheet music like this. The holiday came in 1916, celebrating the U.S. adopting the flag in 1777. Civil War Sheet Music Collection, LOC. See in life size with Booksnake: booksnake.app

Votes for women! The Bisbee (Ariz.) Daily Review, #otd in 1919. The 19th Amendment barred sex-based denial of the vote, but many women (esp. women of color) remained disenfranchised; the fight continued into the civil rights era. Chronicling America, LOC. At life size in Booksnake: booksnake.app

Hello! A short thread about what three of my students built this year. Booksnake turns digitized archival materials into life-size virtual objects you can place in physical space, part of larger research program into computational cultural heritage. Here's what they built this year.

Editors’ Choice: Introducing Booksnake: A Scholarly App for Transforming Existing Digitized Archival Materials into Life-Size Virtual Objects for Embodied Interaction in Physical Space, using IIIF and Augmented Reality dhq.digitalhumanitie...

Introducing Booksnake. Digitization makes everything the same size. Booksnake brings the scale back. It's a scholarly app for close looking, letting you explore 3.9 million Library of Congress items at life size in physical space. Download for free on the App Store. apps.apple.com/app/apple-st...

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I second this - Booksnake is amazing. It's a fantastic example of the truly amazing outcomes from @neh-odh.bsky.social grants.

Congrats to #USCWrigley faculty member Sean Fraga, who co-leads a team that recently received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to enhance Booksnake, a mobile augmented reality archival research app. www.infodocket.com/2025/02/08/n...

AWARDEE SPOTLIGHT | A team from USC has been awarded an @neh-odh.bsky.social Advancement grant to help enhance & develop new features for a mobile augmented reality app, Booksnake—which allows user to view archival materials from the Library of Congress as if physically present. ow.ly/X1NB50UWYFx

NEH grant to enhance Booksnake app for immersive archival research - USC Dornsife News Briefs

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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant to Enhance Booksnake App for Immersive Archival Research www.infodocket.com/2025/02/08/n... #apps #archives