America: History and Life (AHL), which is available through George Mason University and many other colleges and universities in the U.S., was one of my favorite databases when I was a graduate student in the late 1990s. I read book reviews and journal articles and their abstracts, as I compiled historiographies and studied for qualifying… Continue reading Database Review of America: History and Life
Digitization: What We See
Digitization is the “conversion of an analogue signal or code into a digital signal or code.”[1] The creation of digital representations of historical and cultural documents and artifacts is now commonplace in public history institutions. In an effort to better understand how objects are rendered, I digitized items in my kitchen using photography and video:… Continue reading Digitization: What We See
Finding Usable Digital Data – From Old Books
Digital Humanities scholarship thrives when sources are accessible and unrestricted. This blog details the contents of six different sites that offer a blend of open and restricted materials. From Old Books https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Each image includes metadata with the collector’s assessment of the work’s rights status. Low-resolution images are open. For example, Choral Recital with the… Continue reading Finding Usable Digital Data – From Old Books
Finding Usable Digital Data – Library of Congress
Digital Humanities scholarship thrives when sources are accessible and unrestricted. This blog details the contents of six different sites that offer a blend of open and restricted materials. Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/ Rights statements appear in the metadata of each item in the collection. For example, images in the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection… Continue reading Finding Usable Digital Data – Library of Congress
Finding Usable Digital Data – Holt-Atherton Special Collections
Digital Humanities scholarship thrives when sources are accessible and unrestricted. This blog details the contents of six different sites that offer a blend of open and restricted materials. Holt-Atherton Special Collections – Digital Archives https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/hasc/ Copyright statements accompany the individual sources in the metadata entries. There is a link with preferred credit lines: https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections/fees-and-forms Holt-Atherton… Continue reading Finding Usable Digital Data – Holt-Atherton Special Collections
Finding Usable Digital Data – Prelinger
Digital Humanities scholarship thrives when sources are accessible and unrestricted. This blog details the contents of six different sites that offer a blend of open and restricted materials. Prelinger Archives https://archive.org/details/prelinger See rights information at: https://archive.org/details/prelinger?tab=about The site, originally created by a film collector and now owned by the Library of Congress, includes approximately 11,000… Continue reading Finding Usable Digital Data – Prelinger
Finding Usable Digital Data – NASA Commons on Flickr
Digital Humanities scholarship thrives when sources are accessible and unrestricted. This blog details the contents of six different sites that offer a blend of open and restricted materials. NASA on the Commons https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons For the rights statements, see https://www.flickr.com/people/nasacommons For the Flickr commons policy, see https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/ Nasa on the Commons provides a photo stream and… Continue reading Finding Usable Digital Data – NASA Commons on Flickr
Finding Usable Digital Data – Getty
Digital Humanities scholarship thrives when sources are accessible and unrestricted. This blog details the contents of six different sites that offer a blend of open and restricted materials. Getty Museum https://www.getty.edu/museum/ https://www.getty.edu/legal/copyright.html Getty’s mission statement says it is “a cultural and philanthropic institution dedicated to the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy.” … Continue reading Finding Usable Digital Data – Getty
A Definition of Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities practitioners are an interdisciplinary and collaborative group of researchers, scholars, librarians, curators, and activists who create and use digital tools and techniques to explore questions about what it means to be human. Those in the field of public history, specifically, seek to make humanities stories accessible to communities outside of academia, and we… Continue reading A Definition of Digital Humanities
