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Africa Commons is a project which aims to enable Africa to easily control, digitize, and disseminate its cultural heritage–within Africa, and internationally.

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May 17, 2024 7:37pm
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Coherent Digital, LLC, create databases from "content that’s uncatalogued, undiscoverable, uncitable, prone to link rot, and likely to disappear."

Their three current initiatives include:

  • Policy Commons— research coming from over 21,000 think tanks, NGOs, and IGOs
  • Mindscape Commons—curates content of virtual reality and immersive video in mental health
  • African Collections—focusing on content from the African continent

 

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The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991 provides access to a collection of archived issues from BBC's weekly magazine, The Listener

This weekly periodical reproduced and reported on BBC broadcasts in radio and television.  The archive consists the complete 62 year run of the publication covering new films and books, major literary and musical programs, daily life during World War II, 20th Century poetry, science broadcasting, politics, and more.

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May 31, 2024 4:27pm
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Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive provides access to more than 1,100 hours of both edited programs and unedited footage from Banyan Productions in Trinidad & Tobago.

Founded in 1974, Banyan Productions provided entertainment programs in the Caribbean.  It featured a mixture of documentaries, drama and music entertainment, and social commentary for, about, and by the Caribbean people.

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May 17, 2024 7:37pm
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American Race Relations: Global Perspectives, 1940-1996 provides access to CIA monitored, recorded and translated news from newspapers, magazines, books, government statements and radio and television broadcasts that covered American racial issues and race relations in the United States.  It includes commentaries on African-American history, the Civil Rights movement, Hispanic-American history, and Asian-American history.

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Sep 20, 2017 2:55pm

Apartheid: Global Perspectives, 1946-1996 provides access to the digitized collection of translated news broadcasts and publications published around the world during the period of 1946-1966 on apartheid in South Africa.  It includes the reaction and analysis written by both the people who experienced apartheid in South Africa and those around the world who watched, reacted t

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Sep 20, 2017 2:55pm

The Gilded Age collection brings together 53,000 pages of full text, photographs, songs for listening online, and other primary materials, along with video interviews and twenty-five critical documentary essays. Each documentary essay poses an interpretive question and then illuminates it with dozens of annotated primary documents, introductions, and essays.

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May 17, 2024 7:37pm
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