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Network Graphing Tools
Network graphing tools allow users to discover the ways in which people and ideas are interconnected through charts, graphs and maps. It assists users in finding patterns or trends in large volumes of data that are too cumbersome and time consuming to discover through reading or individual analysis alone. The network graphing tool Palladio, developed…
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Digital Mapping Tools
Digital mapping tools can be used with any documents that include descriptions or pictures of place or location anywhere on earth. Digital mapping tools can provide users with visualizations of location and place in order to connect the past with the present, and to show if a particular place has changed over time, or stayed…
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Text Mining
Text data mining allows users to discover which terms are used with the most frequency in a large body of text, such as a collection of newspapers or magazines over decades of publication, and where those terms can be found. It allows users to study and analyze texts by using a variety of quantitative measures,…
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Metadata
What is metadata? Simply put, metadata is data about data. It is an organizational tool for all the relevant information necessary for assisting a user in finding digitized items during a search, by using key identifiers. It is comparable to the information found in a library when using a card catalog, where one can find…
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Review of Daily Life Through History
Daily Life Through History The website Daily Life Through History is part of the global Bloomsbury Publishing Company’s Digital Resource division, which acquired ABC-Clio Publishing Company in 2021. It is one of several subject matter database collections of ABC-Clio, and based on historical content. It contains hundreds of thousands of peer-reviewed items, accessible with a…
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Digital Project
What can be captured when digitizing? When trying to capture items through digitization, there are characteristics and essences that can be shared through the process, and those that digitization is not able to fully capture. With a still image from photography, the color of an item can be captured, as long as the lighting is…
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Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Title: Virginia Museum of History and Culture https://virginiahistory.org Rights Statement: https://virginiahistory.org/copyright-and-scans The VMHC has a collection of more than 9 million items and artifacts. Its website offers research and educational resources. The museum has partnered with other historical organizations, including The John Marshall Historical Collection, The Black History Museum and Cultural Center, The Garden…
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New York Public Library
Title: New York Public Library (NYPL) https://www.nypl.org Rights Statement: https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/website-terms-and-conditions The website for the New York Public Library offers options for borrowing books, movies and music. The library has over 6 million items, including its collection of e-books, in current circulation. It provides information for research and education. One can purchase items, including holiday…
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Name of the website: Getty Museum https://www.getty.edu/museum/ Rights Statement: https://www.getty.edu/legal/copyright.html The following kinds of materials are available at the J. Paul Getty Museum website: exhibitions, including current, past and future, various types of collections, including drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and other decorative arts, books for sale, and educational outreach for adults, college students and faculty,…
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Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum
Title: Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum https://womenshistory.si.edu Rights Statement: https://www.si.edu/Termsofuse One of the newest Smithsonian Institution’s museums, the American Women’s collections are only accessible online while awaiting a physical building, to be completed within the next decade. The website includes digitized items from women in sports, public service, public health, entertainment, education, arts, science…