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 Sep 15, 2020 407 views this year
Images, Media, and Music: Online Sources
by Matt Bailey Last Updated Sep 21, 2020 171 views this year
GIS and Geospatial Data
by Kristin Partlo Last Updated Jul 17, 2020 52 views this year
Data, Datasets, and Statistical Resources
by Research/IT Desk Last Updated Sep 22, 2020 3966 views this year
Northfield Area Data and Statistics
by Kristin Partlo Last Updated Jul 17, 2020 92 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.

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
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.