In small groups (see activity groups in the “People” section of our Canvas site), select a digital collection from the list below or, better yet, find another collection on your own. Explore the collection and answer the questions below. Each qgroup’s leader should present the group’s findings to the class.

Digital Collections

• Wright American Fiction https://libraries.indiana.edu/resources/americanfiction
• Digital Public Library of American http://dp.la
• Digital Comic Museum http://digitalcomicmuseum.com
• HathiTrust Digital Library https://www.hathitrust.org
• YouTube https://www.youtube.com
• David Rumsey Map Collection https://www.davidrumsey.com
• Blue Mountain Project http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/exist/apps/bluemountain/index.html
• Sheet Music Consortium http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/
• IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/inharmony/
• Algernon Charles Swinburne Project http://swinburneproject.org
• Indiana Magazine of History https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/index
• Legacy Tobacco Documentation http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu
• TCP/EEBO http://textcreationpartnership.org
• Victorian Women Writers Project http://dlib.indiana.edu/collections/vwwp/
• Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/
• Walt Whitman Archive http://whitmanarchive.org
• Project Gutenberg http://gutenberg.org/
• William Blake Archive http://blakearchive.org
• Mark Twain Project https://www.marktwainproject.org/homepage.html

Questions

• What is/are the subject(s) of the collection?
• What is the content (what’s in it and how much)?
• What media type(s) is/are represented?
• In what file format(s) is the content delivered?
• Who is the publisher of the collection?
• What metadata are available for items in the collection (e.g., author/creator, title, date, location, ID number, etc.)?
• What types of contextual information are provided (e.g., “about” pages, essays, biographies, etc.)?