How has digital photography and the demise of photo prints changed the way we store and document? Once you have a digital camera — or smartphone, photographs are basically free. You no longer have to worry about coming to … continue reading →
We would like to highlight the work of the Czech Wikimedia Foundation, which has been sponsoring a project to photograph Jewish heritage sites in the Czech Republic. The Jewish Monuments grant project aims to gather freely licensed photos of all … continue reading →
We’ve come across what looks like an interesting kickstarter project called ReVILNA, a project about the WW2 Vilna Ghetto described on its web site as a “digital mapping project dedicated to understanding how the residents of the Ghetto lived, how the … continue reading →
Exciting news from Spain, where Google, in partnership with Red de Juderías de España, the nationwide Network of Jewish Quarters, has launched an impressive — and exhaustive — new web site that provides an interactive exploration of Jewish heritage … continue reading →
An innovative project is under way to include the historic Jewish cemetery in Mackenheim, near Marckolsheim in eastern France’s Alsace region, in an interactive cemetery digitalization project that will enable visitors to access maps, translations of epitaphs, information on … continue reading →
