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Humanities Data
In this week’s Module 7 we focused on humanities data and how to create, refine/cleanse, and analyze said data for our research purposes. In Miriam Posner’s article Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction, she emphasizes how humanist tend to not use data sheets, or even consider their source material “data”, even though they also tend to…
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Why Metadata Matters
Prior to module 6, I truly had no idea what metadata was or why it would be important in the first place. After some much needed research and going through the readings for this module, I have come to learn that metadata is not some scary coding term like I originally thought, it is, as…
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Endless Searching… aka ProQuest
For this week’s module we learned the differences between multiple databases and how they yield different results. Among the databases I used was the common ProQuest database which I was granted access by George Mason University. Weirdly though, I was searching the database for information related to the popular brand Scrub Daddy which is a…
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Digitization of Photographs
In this week’s module regarding the digitization of photographs it became very clear to me the concept was not as simple as snap a photo and post it. During the Digitizing your Kitchen activities I was forced to think about images in a different way. Rather than just looking at the image, I had to…
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Salvador Dali
Visit Virtually The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Pete, Florida is dedicated to the art work created by the artist Salvador Dali in the 1900s. The online collections includes 3 sections: Dali’s artworks, online exhibits, and Dreams of Dali. The Dreams of Dali is a downloadable virtual reality experience meant for devices such as the…
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The Library of Congress World Digital Library
https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-digital-library/about-this-collection/ The World Digital Library at the Library of Congress includes over 19,000 digital collections to be viewed and studied. The archive is broken down into multiple categories including photo/print/drawing being the largest and software/e-resources and web page being the smallest. The collection is massive due to the fact that it includes not just books,…