I chose to review the metadata used in the Digital Public Library of America’s database, which I used in module #5. What features of the digital objects does the metadata describe? The metadata describes: Created Date, Description, Creator, Partner, Contributing Institution, Subjects, Location, Format, URL, and Rights What features does it not describe? On the […]
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Overview: Project MUSE is a provider of digital humanities and social science online resources that has been in operation for 25 years. Project MUSE is a database that is available for use through the George Mason Library. This specific database offers a range of “complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of […]
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Digitizing materials is becoming a more common place practice especially in the ever evolving world of progressing technology. It is an extremely important concept for making more materials (in our case historical materials) accessible. Digitization is a broad term with various applications that make sense for each type of digitization. For materials that are visual […]
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Website Name: New York Public Library Website URL: https://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain Website’s Rights Statement URL: https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/permissions-terms-conditions Annotation: The New York Public Library Digital Collection webpage is a digitized archives of collections that are available to the public for use. There are thousands of items that are digitized in this collection. Anything from photographs to videos to written works […]
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Website Name: The Public Domain Review Website URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/ Website’s Rights Statement URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/legal Annotation: On The Public Domain Review’s website you will find “works which have now fallen into the public domain, that vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction.” This web page has different categories […]
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Website Name: Field Museum Website URL: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/ Website’s Rights Statement URL: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/copyright-statement Annotation: On the Field Museum web page you can find their current online exhibits, online collections, educational resources, and information about their museum events. The Field Museum has an emphasis on natural history, some of their notable exhibits include Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet (which […]
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Website Name: Internet Archive: Prelinger Archives Website URL: https://archive.org/details/prelinger?&sort=-downloads&page=2 Website Right’s Statement URL: https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360014759692-Rights Annotation: The Prelinger Archives is “a collection of over 60,000 “ephemeral” (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 11,000 […]
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Website Name: NASA On The Commons Website URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons Website’s Rights Statement URL: https://www.flickr.com/people/nasacommons/ Annotation: On the NASA On The Common’s Flickr web page you will find various images, videos, and audio content provided by NASA for the public. These images are public domain and are to be used freely. “All photographs on the NASAcommons Flickr account […]
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Name of website: J Paul Getty Museum Website URL: https://www.getty.edu/museum/ Website’s Rights Statement URL: https://www.getty.edu/legal/copyright.html Annotation: On the J Paul Getty Museum website you find links to various online exhibits that the museum currently houses, as well as an extensive online collection. “The collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum comprises Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art from […]
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After reviewing all the changing definitions of humanities computing, which eventually turned into what we now know as digital humanities, I have come to my own conclusion on what I believe to be the “definition” of the term digital humanities. In the short period of the word’s existent, the definition has changed quite a bit, […]
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