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Digital Mapping with Kepler.gl
Digital mapping offers a host of possibilities for Digital Humanists to visualize many forms of data in a geospatial context. Utilizing digital maps have become an integral part of our everyday lives in the modern world, so it only makes sense that as researches, we should seek to integrate them into how we present our…
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Text Mining with Voyant
Text mining of primary resources is one of the most valuable assets available to Digital Humanists in the modern world, but the question remains; how do we utilize this technology in a way that allows for new ways of thinking about the past, fundamentally changes our understanding of history, or leads to the possibility for…
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Creating Data from Humanities Sources
As Digital Humanists, our obligation is to find new way to interact with pre-existing sources, derive new information from those sources, and use that information to draw new connections. By approaching our sources as potential opportunities for data extraction we begin to see both the benefits and drawbacks of this method of research. Humanists’ relationship…
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What is Metadata?
Metadata, in simplest terms, is data which describes other data. It is used by historians and archivists to provide context for digitized artifacts, and facilitates the discovery of new materials. In my opinion, the most important type of metadata is information that the viewer would not be able to discern from simply viewing a photograph…
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greenFILE Database Review
greenFile is a comprehensive online database that provides free access to documents which concern the impact of humans on the environment. There are a number of advanced search options at the users disposal which help make discovering new material both easier and faster. These include selecting the document type, time period, publisher type, and language.…
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Usefulness of Digitization
The inherent limitations of digitizing objects are not always apparent to Digital Humanists beforehand, and oftentimes it is only after the fact when shortcomings of recording specific aspects become evident. While the practice of digitization is able to capture qualities of shape, size, and color quite well, it falls strikingly short at conveying others such…
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Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org Rights Statement- https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html#:~:text=Using%20the%20Project%20Gutenberg%20Trademark,-If%20you%20want&text=you%20may%20only%20distribute%20verbatim,pay%20royalties%20to%20Project%20Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg is an online database dedicated to the free sharing of electronic works of literature by authors from around the world. Its mission is to provide unobstructed access to these works to encourage readers who may not have a way of viewing these texts in person. As of 2024, Project…
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British Pathe
Britishpathe.com Rights Statement- https://www.britishpathe.com/copyright/#:~:text=British%20Path%C3%A9%20retains%20the%20copyright,commercial%20or%20non%2Dcommercial%20projects. British Pathe is an online video archive which is home to a remarkably thorough collection of newsreels spanning the 20th century. On subjects ranging from colonial expeditions, to ocean liners, the royal family’s home videos, or baking programs, you are sure to find a vast array of precious first-hand footage to…
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Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov Rights Statement- https://www.loc.gov/collections/public-policy-topics-web-archive/about-this-collection/rights-and-access/ The library of Congress is perhaps the most well-known institution dedicated to the preservation and digitization of historical records and documents, and for good reason. Not only is the Library of Congress home to the U.S. copyright office itself, it is also the largest Library in the entire world, containing millions…
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Prelinger Archives
https://archive.org/details/prelinger Rights Statement- https://www.panix.com/~footage/prelarch.html The Prelinger Archive is an extensive video catalogue which contains over 60,000 unique films of varying lengths and subject matters. Everything from employee training videos, to commercials can be found within the Prelinger collection, however in recent years they have shifted to focus primarily on the digitization and preservation of home…