This is a review of the database America: History and Life. The following information has been collected from the database homepage, search page, and parent company page. Overview: This database, America: History and Life, is hosted on EBSCO which is a corporation focused on providing access to research databases, journals, and other online, academic content. For…
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Guide to Digitization: Recreating a Digital Life for an Object
Digitization: A Brief Discussion This post relates to the topic of digitization of objects and texts. While there are numerous conference panels, digital humanities fellows, and academic literature that all relate to the subject, it is my goal, here today, to try and give a very basic overview of: what one can and cannot capture…
Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Review of Sources
The following privacy and copyright information is for the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The MET (website header) Link to the MET’s main page: https://www.metmuseum.org/. Link to the MET’s collection page: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection. Link to the MET’s rights and terms page: https://www.metmuseum.org/information/terms-and-conditions. This institution uses OA or Open Access to designate pictures of paintings…
Art Institute of Chicago: A Review of Sources
The following privacy and copyright information is for the Art Institute of Chicago: Art Institute Chicago (website header) Link to the institute’s main website: https://www.artic.edu/. Link to the institute’s collection website: https://www.artic.edu/collection. Link to the institute’s rights and image license statement: https://www.artic.edu/image-licensing. While some images are under copyright by the artist or creator,…
St. Louis Art Museum: A Review of Sources
The following privacy and copyright information is for the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM): St. Louis Art Museum (website header) Link to SLAM’s homepage: https://www.slam.org/. Link to SLAM’s collection homepage: https://www.slam.org/explore-the-collection/. Link to SLAM’s terms of usage, this is a broad, over-arching statement: https://www.slam.org/terms-of-use/. Link to SLAM’s terms of Public Domain: https://www.slam.org/public-domain-and-open-access/. Overall,…
Prelinger Archives: A Review of Sources
The following privacy and copyright information is for the Prelinger Archives hosted by Archives.org. Using the Bank by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films. 1947. Public Domain film preserved by Prelinger Archives. Prelinger Archives (website header) Link to the Archives; keep in mind that this archives is a sub-collection within the larger Archives.org realm: https://archive.org/details/prelinger. Link…
NASA: A Review of Sources
The following privacy and copyright information is for the NASA Flickr website: NASA on The Commons (website header) Link to NASA on The Commons: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons. Link to NASA on The Commons’s rights and terms of usage; keep in mind that this is merely an about page, a majority of the information presented testifies…
J. Paul Getty Museum: A Review of Sources
The following privacy and copyright information is for the J. Paul Getty Museum: The Getty (name of website header) Link to the Getty Museum; keep in mind that the intuition of “The Getty” encompasses more than just a museum, it contains a research and conservation centers endowed by a foundation. http://www.getty.edu/museum/. Link to the…
Digital Humanities Defined
__________________________ Digital Humanities is the work of self-identified interdisciplinary scholars; experts trained in the fields of empirical and social sciences. These practitioners employ the help of digital tools, methods, and research for the presentation, curation, distribution, and analysis of empirical or social inferences. These digital projects, some of which incorporate the usage of complex…