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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 It is one of several subject matter database collections of ABC-Clio, and based on historical content.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…
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Prelinger Archives
Title: Prelinger Archives https://archive.org/details/prelinger?tab=collection&query=public+domain Rights Statement: Found on the first page of the website states, “Your right to use these films is granted by the Creative Commons Public Domain license when it appears on the “detail page” for a film. For details on this license, please click the Creative Commons license logo below. “ Prelinger Archives,…
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NASA on the Commons
Title: NASA on the Commons https://www.flickr.com/people/nasacommons/ Rights Statement: No known copyright restrictions, as posted under individual images. In 2007, NASA partnered with the digital platform Flickr, for the purpose of providing access of its images to a wider audience. Through Flickr, NASA has been able to share thousands of historic photographs and videos of the…
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A Definition of Digital Humanities
Digital humanities (DH) can be defined as the scholarly endeavor whereby, through collaboration between various fields within the study of the human past, multimedia information is created to disseminate and share with the general public through electronic platforms. These endeavors are for preservation, analysis, research and teaching purposes. In addition, DH work must be inclusive…