Okay, tested out the blog search engines with two academic terms and one non-academic one and found the following results:
Technorati
EAD/Encoded Archival Description- When I typed EAD into the "ALL" box, I got a variety of blogs that talked about green cards, distance teaching, and real estate. Many simply contained misspellings of "head" or "dead". In 20 pages of results, I only spotted a few blogs that talked about archiving. Same results when I entered EAD in the "EXACT" box. None of these entries would be things I’d really want to read. When I searched Encoded Archival Description, I retrieved many more blogs about archiving. This one seemed most interesting:
NYLA-Smart
Edo Period history- Not too bad. About 800 blogs on topics ranging from sushi and art to samurai and travel. Not much academic information here, but that’s to be expected. Found several fairly pretty sites, though: Japanese Culture
Isaac Israels- He’s one of my favorite artists, a semi-obscure Dutch Impressionist, so I was happy to pull up about 80 results. They were a mix between Jewish history/artist sites and artistic biography sites. Most were in Dutch, though several were in other languages. Happily, I found an image of my very favorite Israels painting on a Spanish Cultura Lesbiana blog~. The actual painting, which resides in the Kröller-Müller Museum is so incredibly rich in color, texture and dimension!
Blogscope
EAD/Encoded Archival Description- Results for EAD were similar to the Techn. ones. Fewer green card pages, more British dialect ones. Only a few new archival pages, mostly in Chinese. And NO search results for Encoded Archival Description! I did get the following message in my first search, though, which seems to limit the effectiveness of this site: “The public version of BlogScope allows only limited access, and results beyond 30 items can not be viewed. Please contact us if you would like to access the complete data.”
Edo Period history- So-so results. Several personal blogs that talked about visits to museums, sushi, samurai, etc. Mildly entertaining.
Isaac Israels- Mostly blogs talking about Israel, the country. This search engine seems to search strings of characters best, not conceptual phrases.
1 comment:
Thank you for the mention about NYLA-Smart. I am glad you found it interesting. We are a small section of the New York Library Association. We don't specialize in archiving, but there has been a lot of interest in issues in digitization for archival purposes.
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