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Metadata is an important tool in the digital humanities to combat the immense amount of information available digitally in both born-digital and digitized analogue sources. The inclusion of thoughtful metadata makes the collection and viewing of these sources easier on the archivist and user by attaching useful information about the item to the item’s digital … Continue reading Why Metadata…
The Prelinger Archives holds over 30,000 digitized items with a primary collection emphasis on home movies and amateur films. The digital collection has been expanding since 2012, digitizing physical film as well as collecting video uploaded to the internet since 2002 on an initiative started by the Library of Congress. The Archive seeks to collect, … Continue reading Database Review: The…
The process of digitization is “the conversion of an analog signal or code into a digital signal or code” (Lee 2002, p.3 as quoted in Terras, Digitisation,1) and has gripped the GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive, Museum) field and become a commonplace practice amongst humanities scholars since the 1970s (Terras, Digitised Cultural Heritage, 2). Anything that is … Continue reading A Guide to…
The Oral History Archives is a part of the Columbia University Library system specializing in documenting and digitizing collected oral histories dating back to 1948. The archive holds over 6,500 digitized sources and more physical recordings (tapes) which can be transcribed or recorded and sent to a researcher, for a fee. The digitized collection is … Continue reading Oral History Archives at…
The State of Oregon State Archives are an open, public domain source, of the digitized documentary history of Oregon. Run by the Office of the The Secretary of State of Oregon the archive contains databases of early American settlers, photographs from across Oregon’s history, legislative records dating to 1841, and provincial records dating to before … Continue reading State of Oregon: State…
The National Gallery of Art provides both Public Domain and Creative Commons Zero licensed sources through its Online Collection and ongoing collaboration with WikiCommons. These artworks and images are available to scholars as well as the public in a mission to provide access to art and art education. More than 60,000 images are available for … Continue reading The National Gallery of Art Online…
The Prelinger Archives were founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger, an American archivist, writer, filmmaker, and professor emeritus at the University of California Santa Cruz. The archive grew to collect over 60,000 films ranging from motion pictures to advertisements, eventually digitizing 20,000 of them beginning in 2002 with help from the Library of Congress Moving … Continue reading The Prelinger…
NASA on The Commons is an account run by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States on the online photo sharing platform, Flickr. This account has organized 50 years worth of photos already present in The NASA Image and Video Library and has presented them in a much more public facing … Continue reading NASA on The Commons →
The J Paul Getty Museum is an institution located in Los Angeles, California that focuses on the collection, archival, interpretation and exhibition of European works of art the institution has deemed important. The J Paul Getty Museum also boasts a large research library which hosts books, journals, auction catalogs, archival documents, photographs, and digital interpretations … Continue reading…
The Digital Humanities (DH) are a loosly joined field of interdisciplinary tools and practices designed to explore old boundaries surrounding scholarship, develop new lines of questioning, provide training for future humanists, and elaborate upon the scope of future projects. Scholars participating in the Digital Humanities use a long list of tools and processes to make … Continue reading A…