Prelinger Archives

The Prelinger Archives Whether you are a researcher finding films on hygiene propaganda campaigns in the 1950’s, a teacher looking for cool material on nuclear war, or an amateur filmmaker putting together a film fest, The Prelinger Archives would be a great place to visit. This website is a compilation of thousands of ephimeral filmic…

The J. Paul Getty Museum Website: Building a Community of Artists, Scholars, Educators, Students, and Art Lovers

The J. Paul Getty Museum Website The virtual collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum is devoted to Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities;  Neolithic clay figures; as well as drawings, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and decorative arts from Middle Ages to 20th-century Europe. It also showcases international photography from its origin to today. Screenshot of…

Refurbishing Space Shuttle Discovery before launch

NASA on The Commons on Flickr: A Love Affair Rekindled Thanks to Digital Humanities

Visiting the NASA on The Commons on Flickr online platform takes me back on love memory lane, working as an undergraduate co-op at Cape Canaveral. It’s not my first time discovering this awesome venue hosted by Flickr, for my love affair with the Space Program has endured all these years, including my tenure as STEM librarian…

My Personal Take on What Digital Humanities is About

Through these beginning stages of entering the Digital Humanities realm, I’m starting to get a sense of what DH is.  With what I’ve been exposed so far, leads me to conceive this construct as a chronotope (Bahktin), emerging as a center that gives body to the multiple intersections between digital media and humanistic inquiry. Based…