In this post, I want to offer a brief guide to Voyant Tools and my review of using these tools. In my Digital Public Humanities (DPH) course, we are learning to work with digital tools to help us conduct research and make effective analysis with our work as Humanists. Voyant Tools is a...
Title of website: The Public Domain Review URL to homepage: URL to rights/terms of use: The Public Domain Review is a website dedicated to the exploration of the public domain and providing collections of material that are no longer restricted by copyright. It contains such content as images...
Title of website: Library of Congress URL to homepage: URL to rights/terms of use: (Located under “About Copyright and the Collections”) The Library of Congress is a government entity that hosts public domain content for the purpose of preserving knowledge and furthering the...
Title of website: Wikimedia Commons URL to homepage: URL to rights/terms of use: Wikimedia Commons hosts only free content that is either in the public domain or has been licensed through Creative Commons. This content consists of multimedia outlets such as films, videos, graphics, images, and...
Title of website: Prelinger Archives URL to homepage: URL to rights/terms of use: This digital archive has collected a diverse array of films. Types of film include: amateur, educational, and advertising, from digitized to videotaped titles. Films produced for a variety of clients such as...
Title of website: NASA on The Commons URL to homepage: URL to rights/terms of use: This website is used by NASA to host their collection of images, videos, and films related to their agency and what they do, using the Flickr platform to SHARE their content to reach a wider audience.
Title of website: J Paul Getty Museum URL to homepage: URL to rights/terms of use: (Located under “Creative Commons”) This website is representative of a cultural organization dedicated to the preserving and showcasing of visual artwork. The digital J Paul Getty Museum combines...
Over my relatively brief time peering into the matter of Digital Humanities (DH), one thing has been made abundantly clear: there is no concrete conclusion on how to define Digital Humanities. From a field of study to an array of methods, to computational practices to an interdisciplinary movement...
