Research Guides: Digital Arts and Humanities: Primary Sources & Data

Types of Primary Sources

Digital Text Analysis and Text Mining
by Research/IT Desk Last Updated Oct 25, 2022 1329 views this year
Images, Media, and Music: Online Sources
by Research/IT Desk Last Updated Apr 28, 2022 160 views this year
GIS and Geospatial Data
by Kristin Partlo Last Updated Oct 4, 2021 25 views this year
Data, Datasets, and Statistical Resources
by Research/IT Desk Last Updated Sep 13, 2022 2872 views this year
Northfield Area Data and Statistics
by Kristin Partlo Last Updated Dec 7, 2020 53 views this year

Database APIs & CONTENTdm

DO NOT SCRAPE LIBRARY DATABASES

Why? You're stealing protected information, and that violation of Terms of Service can get access turned off for the entire campus.

But, there are options!

Always ask your library liaison if you don't know how to access the underlying data in a library database -- we can help you do it legally! Depending on the database vendor, we may be able to get hard drives of all the underlying data, or we can help to set up API access for you.

Research Consultations with Librarians by Subject
Click on a librarian's name to find contact and schedule information.
About CONTENTdm APIs
Instructions on how to use the CONTENTdm API.
Carleton CONTENTdm Digital Collections
There are many digital collections hosted in CONTENTdm, including Course Catalogs, Northfield historical material, and other digital objects used in classes.

TV News

Internet Archive: TV News archive
Searches news captions for most major networks going back to 2009.
GDELT Television API
Uses the Internet Archive TV Archive data. Supported by Google Jigsaw.

News Data Service PowerSearch This link opens in a new window
See the Research/IT Desk - Ask a Librarian to log you in. News Data Services provides access to broadcast news transcripts from local and national tv and radio stations from 2002 to today. Streaming video content is available for 60 days from the time of broadcast and can be clipped and saved for later analysis.

Twitter access

Twitter API Tutorial
NOTE: You are not able to retrieve tweets older than 7 days.
DocNow Catalog of Twitter datasets
The DocNow Catalog is a collectively curated listing of Twitter datasets. Public datasets are shared as Tweet IDs, which can be hydrated back into full datasets using our Hydrator desktop application.
Internet Archive: Global Events Archive
These collections of global events have been created by the Archive-It team in conjunction with curators and subject matter experts from institutions around the world.