Prior to taking this introductory class in Digital Public Humanities, I will admit that I never gave metadata much thought beyond reading what was included in online sources without really questioning. I got the information, and I was good to…

Holly A. Rine hrine@gmu.edu The Early Encounters in North America database is one of about 80 collections offered by Alexander Street: a ProQuest Company. This particular collection focuses on personal accounts of a variety of people who lived and travelled…

Digitizing items requires much more consideration than merely taking a photo and uploading it to your site. How does one capture the essence of the item in a virtual environment? When creating an archive, one must consider how to convey…

https://www.folger.edu/ https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/FOLGERCM1~6~6 All of the images in the Luna collection at the Folger Shakespeare Library, unless under a non-Folger copyright, are  available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License  (CC BY-SA 4.0). Image collections include bas relief, book bindings, book…

https://archive.org/ https://archive.org/about/ The Prelinger Archives’ “mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.” To accomplish this mission, the archive contains billions of webpages, over 28 millions books, 14 million audio recordings, millions of videos and images, and over half…