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Robert Amesbury

LUNA and the Google Cloud Vision API

Our October 2016 release introduces the integration of the Google Cloud Vision API to make use of Google’s image analysis capabilities in LUNA. This technology analyzes the content of an image, turning it into information that you can use to build your image catalog or supplement your own metadata.

Arctic History in the John Carter Brown Library's Archive

Arctic history is suddenly hot.  An exhibition currently on view at the British Library - Lines in the Ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage - is bringing attention to early prints and maps of the Arctic and to the historic search for the Northwest Passage. Earlier this week an article published on Slate's history blog The Vault highlighted images from a 19th-century British expedition of Baffin Bay captained by John Ross.  The images in the Slate article are all drawn from the John Carter Brown Library's superb online Archive of Early American Images.  And they're just the tip of the iceberg...

Papyri in the John Rylands Library

From the Nag Hammadi codices discovered in 1945 to the tiny, business card-sized scrap of papyrus mentioning Jesus' wife that surfaced in 2012, Egyptian papyri have yielded some of the most interesting tidbits about early Christianity. The latest such discovery is now accessible in digital form through our LUNA software courtesy of the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester...