“Wikipedia” has largely become a household name, giving worldwide, free Internet-based access to information in areas as diverse as Aerial reconnaissance in World War I,…
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Comparing Digital Tools
Comparing Digital Tools Voyant, CartoDB, and Palladio are each helpful tools in their own regard. But each tool is geared for working with certain kinds…
A Beginner’s Introduction to Network Analysis with Palladio
Palladio is a free browser based network analysis and visualization tool. It is a good tool for beginners as it is more user friendly and…
A Beginner’s Introduction to Mapping with CartoDB
CartoDB is a free mapping tool that allows a user to plot place based data on an interactive geographic map (much like a Google map).…
A Beginner’s Introduction to Voyant
Voyant is web-based text-mining tool that allows a user to visually analyze a collection (which in Voyant is called a corpus) of text documents. It…
Metadata Review
Smithsonian Institution Collection Search Center http://collections.si.edu/search/ The metadata provided by this site is highly detailed. For example, in looking at a certified proof of a $5…
Database Review
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/ Overview The site, created by the Michigan State University Library, provide access to full-text searchable versions of…
A Guide To Digitization
Digitizing (taking something from an analog format to a digital one) has become commonplace in today’s world. It is easy to snap a picture or scan…
Public Domain Source 6
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