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Computing in the Humanities and the Arts -- Prof. Deena Engel - June, 2010

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APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/index.html

American Studies program at the University of Virginia: The Education of Henry Adams: http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EHYPER/HADAMS/ha_home.html

Center for History and New Media: http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php

Imperial College, London - Sir Isaac Newton's manuscripts: http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/prism.php?id=1

King's College of London - Henry III Fine Rolls Project: http://www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/home.html

The Library of Congress:http://www.loc.gov/index.html (See also: Civil War Maps at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/)

New York University: Margaret Sanger Papers Project: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/

Tufts University, Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

University of Virginia: Walter Reed Yellow Fever History site http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/healthsci/reed/


Resources and Encoding:

The Archivists' Toolkit (open source software) http://archiviststoolkit.org/index.php

The Association for Documentary Editing: http://etext.virginia.edu/ade/

Library of Congress: Encoded Archival Description (EAD) - http://www.loc.gov/ead/index.html; sample encoding: http://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib/appendix_c.html


Following are the archival sites selected by Janet Bunde for our meeting and discussion on working with primary source materials and building digital archives on Wednesday, June 9, 2010:

New York University Archive - Washington Square Park and Washington Squar eArea Image Collection (finding aid with images [with metadata] at the item level http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/archives/washsquarephoto.html

Online Archive of California (searchable/browsable by institution) http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

South Carolina Digital Library (searcabhle by format, topic, etc. with educational resources: http://www.scmemory.org/index.php

Archives of American Art (full collections digitized, to the item level, with metadata): http://aaa.si.edu/collectionsonline/

BrynMawr, Swarthmore, and Haverford College Special Collections (browsable/searchable by collection catalogs of diitized items, wit hitem-level transcription and access points) http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/