Reading Time: < 1 minuteHappy Birthday City of Tampa. For people who like cake, July 15th was another day to indulge without guilt. It’s also a time to remember Tampa’s history and take part in Archive Awareness Week. During the week of July 15 – 21, local archivists …Continue Reading
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The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few decades ago, a chance discovery by a wandering Bedouin brought the Dead Sea Scrolls out of the caves near Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea and eventually to the Shrine of the Book at the Israel …Continue Reading
Help Us Celebrate the Public Domain
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDigital Scholarship Services at the USF Libraries is planning a celebration of the public domain in January 2019. We have compiled a list of items in our collections and now we need your help in picking out what we are going to …Continue Reading
Openly Accessible v. Open Access v. Free to Use
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMany of the materials released to or shared on the internet today are openly accessible due to the very nature of the internet itself. This does not mean that they are free from copyright protection or released with any open use provisions. …Continue Reading
Hidden Florence
Reading Time: 2 minutesAh, Firenze! Located in the Tuscan region of Italy, this ancient city was a center of trade, finance, and culture in medieval times. Home to the Medici family, whose power and control over the region began in the mid-15th century, Florence is …Continue Reading
Introduction to Copyright Tutorial Video
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAre you starting on a research project where you know you are going to include some material created by someone else? Or including copyright content in your thesis or dissertation? The library has a new tutorial video that gives an introduction to …Continue Reading
ELAPP Recap
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter several months of diligent work, USF Library Digital Scholarship Services unveiled the Environmental Lands Acquisition and Protection Program (ELAPP) Oral History Collection on Thursday October 12th, 2017. This collection features audio interviews and transcripts from many of the founders, partners, and …Continue Reading
Robert Porter Allen, Savior of the Whooping Crane
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe world is at our fingertips, and we are awash with information. This exciting experience can become a predicament when quality resources are required and time is short. There is so much “stuff” returned with a search string. If the building is …Continue Reading
Tools Intro – Tiki-Toki
Reading Time: 2 minutesDigital storytelling, text analysis, data visualization, online exhibits, web scraping, etc. All of these are some of the ways in which digital humanists, digital social scientists, digital scientists – let’s just call them digital-ists – collect, process, analysis, and disseminate their research. …Continue Reading
Voyant Tools
Reading Time: 3 minutesVoyant Tools is a web-based text reading and analysis platform designed to help scholars and students with both macroscopic and microscopic analysis of textual works. It was designed by Stefan Sinclair (McGill University) and Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) and is open-source …Continue Reading