Africa Commons is a project which aims to enable Africa to easily control, digitize, and disseminate its cultural heritage–within Africa, and internationally.
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
Updated: Mar 24, 2023 10:43am
For many, thoughts of the 1980s in the UK conjure images of the miners' strikes, Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, and the Royal Wedding, likely accompanied by a soundtrack of enduring pop classics.
But the 1980s is not only a pop culture treasure-trove, it was also a transformative decade socially, politically, and technologically.
Brazilian cinema gained international acclaim through the Cinema Novo of Glauber Rocha, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and other directors in the 1960s. Yet Brazil produced numerous films throughout its various regions since as early as 1896. Until now, a proper appreciation of early Brazilian cinema has been hampered by the loss of a significant number of the films, as well as a lack of available printed sources pertaining to Brazil’s movie industry.
The Business & Management Collection provides access to over 1,000 multimedia lectures and case studies covering six subject areas:
- Finance, Accounting & Economics
- Global Business Management
- Management, Leadership & Organization
- Marketing & Sales
- Strategy
- Technology & Operations
The collection contains over 90 lecture series that are updated monthly.
Henry Stewart Talks Ltd. (HSTalks) is an online publishing company operating in London, United Kingdom. HSTalks is a provider of prepared, animated, online, audio-visual lectures, seminar-style talks and case studies for medical schools, business schools, universities and commercial enterprises in over 60 countries around the world.
Updated: Apr 16, 2019 8:26am
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is an extensive online, subscription database of over 10,000 hours of full-text and video interviews with African-Americans distinguished in the fields of science, culture, politics, the arts, and public life.
The HistoryMakers is a Chicago-based, nonprofit organization that collects and curates oral histories of African Americans.
Updated: May 8, 2018 10:04am
World Scholar Historical Archive: Latin America provides access to 1.3 million pages of primary and secondary sources from Latin America from the 15th century to present day.
It includes:
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.