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Unpacking a Digital Library: A Tour through Early American Metadata

Guest contributor Adam Fales grew up in Kansas and recently graduated from Fordham University. He is currently an AAS digital scholarship intern sponsored by the English Department at New York University and is a manager at Book Culture in New York City.  “And, indeed, if there is a counterpart to the confusion of a library, it is the ...

Posted on August 24, 2017October 4, 2017Author Molly O'Hagan HardyCategories Digital HumanitiesTags digital humanities, metadata1 Comment on Unpacking a Digital Library: A Tour through Early American Metadata

Catalogs as Big Data for Nineteenth-Century Publishers’ Series

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Katie McGettigan is a lecturer in American literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her first book, Herman Melville: Modernity and the Material Text, is forthcoming from the University Press of New England, and she is working on a study of the publication of American literature in England, 1830-1860, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Katie ...

Posted on November 1, 2016October 24, 2016Author Molly O'Hagan HardyCategories Digital HumanitiesTags cataloging, digital humanities, metadata, online catalog, publishersLeave a comment on Catalogs as Big Data for Nineteenth-Century Publishers’ Series

Converting MARC Records to a Spreadsheet: A Screencast Tutorial

The North American Imprints Program makes the AAS Catalog ideal for bibliometric analysis in the North American colonies and in the early United States before 1820, as I have noted before on Past is Present.  In this screencast, I walk you through how to export Machine-Readable Catalog (MARC) records from our General Catalog and then ...

Posted on October 22, 2015October 19, 2015Author Molly O'Hagan HardyCategories Digital HumanitiesTags cataloging, digital humanities, metadata, online catalog3 Comments on Converting MARC Records to a Spreadsheet: A Screencast Tutorial

Isaiah Thomas’s Broadside Ballads: Verses in Vogue with the Vulgar

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What do Red Jacket, Pompey Fleet, James Macpherson, Mary Washington, and Geoffrey Chaucer have in common? They all are depicted in, influences for, or creators of the 300 (give or take a few, depending on how you count them) broadside ballads Isaiah Thomas collected from Boston printer Nathaniel Coverly in 1814. Mostly printed in Coverly’s ...

Posted on January 27, 2015January 27, 2015Author Molly O'Hagan HardyCategories Digital HumanitiesTags broadsides, digital humanities, Isaiah Thomas, metadata, music, online exhibitions2 Comments on Isaiah Thomas’s Broadside Ballads: Verses in Vogue with the Vulgar

AAS Collections Launch in Metadata Games

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Just over a year ago, our graphic arts curator, Lauren Hewes, announced that we had completed the photographing of over 600 political cartoons produced in the United States between 1764 and 1876, and that these images were now available in GIGI, our digital image archive. This comprehensive collection includes everything from early cartoons relating to ...

Posted on August 18, 2014October 21, 2014Author Molly O'Hagan HardyCategories Digital HumanitiesTags cataloging, digital humanities, elections, metadata, native american, photography, political cartoonsLeave a comment on AAS Collections Launch in Metadata Games

Metadata and the Right to Own an Archival Collection

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I left off last month promising details of how the work of early nineteenth-century American antiquarians has, over the last two centuries, morphed into the work of cataloging, archiving, and collecting, of how the “science” of antiquarianism has become the “science” of information. To address this shift, we might start by looking at how the ...

Posted on June 26, 2014October 21, 2014Author Molly O'Hagan HardyCategories Digital HumanitiesTags cataloging, digital humanities, Mathew Carey, metadata, printers' file1 Comment on Metadata and the Right to Own an Archival Collection
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