Paraguay, IFTTT, Athens (GA), More: Afternoon Buzz, August 29th, 2014

FamilySearch is beginning to index the 1891 Toulouse Census and is looking for volunteers who can speak both French and English.

A man after my own heart has been uploading pictures from Internet Archive books… to Flickr. “The Internet Archive had used an optical character recognition (OCR) program to analyse each of its 600 million scanned pages in order to convert the image of each word into searchable text. As part of the process, the software recognised which parts of a page were pictures in order to discard them. Mr. Leetaru’s code used this information to go back to the original scans, extract the regions the OCR program had ignored, and then save each one as a separate file in the Jpeg picture format.”

The talent who does the voices of Mario, Luigi, Wario, etc has joined Instagram and is posting cute videos with is voice and character figures. I like the one with the llama.

Nice! Paraguay is getting a digital archive of all 20 of its indigenous languages. “The initiative, which was launched today by officials from the Department of Anthropology of the University, is the first step to collect sound recordings and images of native testimony, grammars, documents, glossaries, legend and work of specialists.”

Interesting question, not sure anybody knows the answer. What does “Don’t be evil” mean in a post-Snowden world?

Taneya Koonce will be doing her first Google Hangouts on Air on September 6th and everyone is invited. “I volunteer with my local chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and my webinar will be for them. The society has a one-of-a-kind newspaper history project to capture history and genealogy information from HBCU student newspapers. During the session, I’ll demonstrate the indexing process and provide details on how you can contribute towards this important effort.”

The NGS has a quick overview article of current crowdsourcing projects relevant to the genealogy community.

IFTTT now has an Eyefi channel and MAN, I’m going to have some fun with that. (I’m already using Eyefi in conjunction with Dropbox for some projects at work. It is SO HANDY!)

The Digital Library of Georgia has announced an enhanced version of the Athens Historic Newspapers Archive. “The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive is now compatible with all current browsers and provides access to nine newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1928 without the use of plug-ins or additional software downloads. Consisting of over 77,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date.”

Google has updated Chrome with a ton of security fixes, so if you’re using Chrome make sure you get the new version. Good afternoon, Internet…

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