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Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections
Historical knowledge locked in museum collections
There is a vast amount of historical knowledge locked in museum collections. This knowledge is often explicitly present in textual descriptions accompanying museum objects or implicitly present through the fact that an object belongs to a particular collection and was collected…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Philip j. ethington, a pioneer in incorporating spatial and temporal data into library records
The effects of such feedback loops can be powerfully transformative, as shown in the work of historian Philip J. Ethington, a pioneer in incorporating spatial and temporal data into library records (Hunt and Ethington 1997). For more than a decade, Ethington has undertaken an…