Baylor University is a long way from Kirov, Russia and the halls of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, but one digital archive unites these seemingly disparate places through the common bond of The Keston Collection. The Keston Digital Archive currently houses more than 1,800 items related to the subject of religious persecution carried out under Communist regimes.…
Month: February 2013
(Digital Collections) English Street Art, Full Text Searching and Raising the Dead
“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.” This quote, attributed to anonymous and ubiquitous English street artist Banksy, is a surprisingly profound viewpoint on memory and mortality, and it got me to thinking: if that’s true, then…