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A Guide to Digitization
This activity showed that digitization of objects can prove useful and informative but it has its limits. The photos and videos shown here are what I used in the activity.
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UMW Digital Collections
The name of the website is: University of Mary Washington Libraries’ Digital Collections The url is: https://umw.access.preservica.com/ The site’s rights statement: https://umw.access.preservica.com/copyright/ What is available on the site: They have five digitized collections: The Centennial Image Collection, The James L. Farmer Collection, The Mary Washington Health Care (MWHC) Oral History Project, The Theatre Collection, and the UMW Blueprints and Architectural Drawings Collection.
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National Archives
The name of the website is: National Archives The url is: https://www.archives.gov/ The site’s rights statement: https://www.archives.gov/faqs under Copyright What is available on the site: Digitized content of original national manuscripts, photos, videos, etc.
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The British Museum
The name of the website is: The British Museum The url is: http://www.britishmuseum.org/ The site’s rights statement: http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_this_site/terms_of_use/copyright_and_permissions.aspx What is available on the site: There are over 4,000,000 objects at the British museum.
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Prelinger Archives
The name of the website is: Prelinger Archives The url is: https://archive.org/details/prelinger The site’s rights statement: https://archive.org/details/prelinger&tab=about What is available on the site: It is a collection of “‘ephemeral’ (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films”
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NASA Commons site on Flickr
The name of the website is: NASA on The Commons The url is: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons The site’s rights statement: https://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/ What is available on the site: Photos, historic films, and videos from NASA. Being digitized on the Internet Archive since 2008.
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J. Paul Getty Museum
The name of the website is: The J. Paul Getty Museum The url is: http://www.getty.edu/museum/ The site’s rights statement: http://www.getty.edu/legal/copyright.html What is available on the site: Digital collections from the museum that encompasses manuscripts, drawings, antiquities, paintings, photographs, and sculpture and decorative arts.
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A Definition of Digital Humanities
I believe that defining what Digital Humanities (DH) is can be complex. The best way that I can describe it as, knowing who is doing the work, what technologies being used, and what do they want to accomplish and why. From the early 2000s to present-day, those involved in this field have been struggling to define what it is that they do and how. This field has begun to standardize what technology is used and how but it is mostly by trial and error. What can they do to make their subject enjoyed by the public? In order to accomplish this there has been a shift of how the information…